- Feb 22, 2014
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I have had so many issues setting up this mining rig which have frustrated me to no end and I am hoping this is something simple because I have had this freezing problem previously. In that instance,of when it froze, I re-bought new Ram and a SSD and paid people off CL to fix it and they never were able to; but,. I was able to fix the issue by getting a new SSD drive.
Once the SSD and 1333 Mhz RAM were replaced I was finally able to set up the WIndows 8.1 operating system and the computer worked beautifully with one AMD 7950 Graphics card.
However, now that I have hooked up three of the AMD graphics cards it is once again freezing during the loading up of the Win 8.1 OS.
I have left a link to the spec with all of the parts to this mining rig which I originally followed to a T; however, the The intel G1620 Ivy Bridge CPU needed a 4G 1333 Mhz RAM card and not the Corsair 4G 1866 Mhz Card which the spec called for so I replaced it with the Transcend 4G 1333 Mhz Ram card.
As for the 32 G SSD that was recommended, it had so little room on it and the actual reason it was freezing before was that SSD was faulty so I purchased a 120 G SSD and got it working finally and was able to install the OS and use it for 2 days without any freezing problems.
The two AMD 7950 Ram cards and one AMD 7970 Ram cards and turned it on and once again it is freezing while it is loading the previously installed WIN 8,1 operating system.
My Power Supply is a Corsair Gold 1600 Watt unit which is brand new
The Motherboard in an MSI Z77 GD65 Z77a
Two of the AMD 7950 GPU's are plugged directly into the motherboard and the one AMD 7970 GPU is plugged in via a pci x1 to x16 extension cable with a powered riser.
Here is the spec I used to build the mining rig which I followed to a T.
http://www.coinminingrigs.com/how-to-build-a-6-gpu-mining-rig/
I am not sure the guy that wrote that article built it himself because as I mentioned, the Ram and CPU suggested were not compatible with each other.
I am hoping it is just a setting in the bios or the drivers need to be installed. I am thinking of switching to the Linux operating system instead of Win 8.1 as the tech guy at the Microsoft support line said that the OS may not support multiple GPU;s. Although the attached build spec does say that if you want to use multiple GPU's. Windows 8 would work best.
I would really appreciate any assistance advice offered as I am almost at the end of my rope with this mining rig after so many issues over the past 8 weeks. Thx/
Once the SSD and 1333 Mhz RAM were replaced I was finally able to set up the WIndows 8.1 operating system and the computer worked beautifully with one AMD 7950 Graphics card.
However, now that I have hooked up three of the AMD graphics cards it is once again freezing during the loading up of the Win 8.1 OS.
I have left a link to the spec with all of the parts to this mining rig which I originally followed to a T; however, the The intel G1620 Ivy Bridge CPU needed a 4G 1333 Mhz RAM card and not the Corsair 4G 1866 Mhz Card which the spec called for so I replaced it with the Transcend 4G 1333 Mhz Ram card.
As for the 32 G SSD that was recommended, it had so little room on it and the actual reason it was freezing before was that SSD was faulty so I purchased a 120 G SSD and got it working finally and was able to install the OS and use it for 2 days without any freezing problems.
The two AMD 7950 Ram cards and one AMD 7970 Ram cards and turned it on and once again it is freezing while it is loading the previously installed WIN 8,1 operating system.
My Power Supply is a Corsair Gold 1600 Watt unit which is brand new
The Motherboard in an MSI Z77 GD65 Z77a
Two of the AMD 7950 GPU's are plugged directly into the motherboard and the one AMD 7970 GPU is plugged in via a pci x1 to x16 extension cable with a powered riser.
Here is the spec I used to build the mining rig which I followed to a T.
http://www.coinminingrigs.com/how-to-build-a-6-gpu-mining-rig/
I am not sure the guy that wrote that article built it himself because as I mentioned, the Ram and CPU suggested were not compatible with each other.
I am hoping it is just a setting in the bios or the drivers need to be installed. I am thinking of switching to the Linux operating system instead of Win 8.1 as the tech guy at the Microsoft support line said that the OS may not support multiple GPU;s. Although the attached build spec does say that if you want to use multiple GPU's. Windows 8 would work best.
I would really appreciate any assistance advice offered as I am almost at the end of my rope with this mining rig after so many issues over the past 8 weeks. Thx/
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