2 out of 4 r9 290 not getting detected

njaiswal

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I am doing a 4 GPU scrypt mining rig.
First 2 GPU are detected properly with cgminer
Other 2 are not.
The only difference is I have 2 GPU connected using 1x to 16x riser cables and 2 with 1x to 16x powered riser cables.

Please see pics for details if I have missed any.

http://postimg.org/image/64vabmhir/
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http://postimg.org/image/co5mg861r/

Do I have to make any bios settings to make motherboard recognize 2 more GPUs?

On starting windows 7 it did install some new drivers for 2 unidentified devices, which I let run, but after that running cgminer -n does not show all 4 gpus, just 2 of them as before when I was running the rig with only 2 GPUs.

Any recommendation would help.

Other hardware details:
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1. Mobo: ASRock 990FX Extreme4 (http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme4/)

2. CPU: AMD Sempron 145 Single-Core.

3. Memory: TeamGroup Elite 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module (TED34GM1333C901)

4. Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card.

5. 32 GB sata driver running windows 7 64bit version

6. PSU: Silverstone Strider Series 1500 Watt (SST-ST1500)

Thx,
Nishant
 

njaiswal

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Upadate: Reinstalling the AMD Catalyst drivers (13.11) made the 3rd GPU visible to cgminer.

I have connected 1x riser cable to PCIE2,3,4 and 5 slots as of now.
Also both powered riser cables are connected to single PSU power cable which seems to have 3 molex connectors so using 2 off them. Pics in main thread.

Is there a way to find out which one is not being detected?
 

njaiswal

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well, just to get better spacing and heat dissipation.
i plan to run the rig 24/7 for now, with all 4 GPUs running like a mini heaters its just better they are not mounted on the mobo and are spaced out.
 

vrsi44

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Hi Nishant,

My 2nd R9 290 is not getting detected i tried reinstalling catalyst see this config.

i3
8GB
120GB SATA
Asrock Z87 ex4
2 x R9 290
Corsair 800W PSU