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Originally Posted by ulfilias
What's up with the Vega.....looks a cool card, if a little new. Must be plenty of people using them, so it's certainly possible ???
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They have been an utter nightmare to set up. They wouldn't work on my older motherboards, so I put them in my server but the drivers won't load in Windows Server. I bought a brand new Asrock mining board and they wouldn't work on that either until I discovered they need a UEFI bios, and I was booting in legacy mode. The LAN adapter on the board also won't work in my preferred Windows 10 Pro RTM build, so I had to install Creators Edition which is hateful. So rebuilt it with UEFI and then they run, for anywhere between a couple of minutes and a couple of hours. I've tried iGPU on, and then cast-xmr and claymore flatly refuse to recognise the cards, so I've tried iGPU off and then on numerous occasions the blockchain driver has crashed so hard it has destroyed the OS and I've had to reinstall from scratch. Nicehash would crash the driver on most benchmarks, and kill the OS completely benchmarking Cryptonight. Cast-XMR will happily go to 2000+ H/S with overclocking, but at random one card will drop to 0, then the miner crashes the blockchain driver and the OS won't restart after a forced power-off. I had one of them doing Eth at a pathetic 32 somethings so gave up with that before they managed to crash.
I've reset the bios, reinstalled the OS, reinstalled the blockchain driver, plugged in and unplugged the cards, switched slots, turned the iGPU on and off, and tried various different miners so many times I would have taken the whole steaming pile of kit out the back and set it on fire, had it not cost so much money
I finally found a detailed guide to using the cards with stak-xmr which looked promising and then Nicehash blew up just as I got it set up so there was nowhere for it to mine to. It connected to minergate just once, and then refused to connect ever again.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong - every time it seems to be working I leave it overnight and it's dead by the morning. I've been building computers since that involved soldering 40-pin cpu sockets on veroboard and I've never had this much trouble with anything. Meanwhile, the GTX960 is running just fine in the server and was just about covering its electricity costs until someone stole the proceeds.
I find all the pool and wallet stuff rather intimidating which, as an IT professional, is embarrassing and just adds to the frustration. Nicehash was easy because it would have paid out to a Coinbase account. With that gone I'm on the verge of throwing in the towel. I just can't ignore the fact that everyone else seems to be doing just fine at this
