Hello,
I would like to humbly/respectfully ask the community for help. I know everyone’s time is precious and want to be very sensitive to that. I hope I can learn from you and also give back to the community one day. I have purchased and built my first rig. It is comprised of:
3 Zotac GeForce GTX 1070Ti mini GPUs
3 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti gaming GPUs
2 MSI GeForce GTX 1070Ti gaming GPUs
Ballistix 4GB DDR4 RAM
120GB SSD
ASRock H110 Pro BTC mobo (13 GPU capable)
Intel 3900 CPU
EVGA SuperNova 1600 watt Titanium PSU
I understand that I may have taken on too much for my first rig, but that’s just how I am - I like to try and go all in and intentionally struggle so that I can learn quickly. I spent moths researching and based on efficiency analysis, sols/watt comparisons, investment cost, etc., chose the hardware listed above…I wanted to start and learn through trial and error (hence a big reason for this email). I will build a full farm eventually, likely moving into and trialing ASIC miners in the future…after this rig is complete and fully operational, I plan to invest $25-$50k in an attempt to have some very solid (as solid as crypto can be) passive income.
Anyway, as mentioned, I have fully built the rig and have installed Windows 10. I have installed and un-installed and re-installed and re-un-installed :slight_smile: (more on that in a minute) the drivers and other “helpful” software through Nvidia’s website and other sites that I have found through forums and help groups on line. All GPUs show in device manager as 1070Ti’s and they also show in the GPU-Z software that I downloaded (both good signs I believe), and all seem to power up correctly. However, 3 of the 8 GPU’s show an exclamation point in device manager and Windows says there is “a problem with the device” (error code 43; I understand this is a general error code message). I have spent endless hours on forums, YouTube, and countless websites, and have done everything from rolling back Windows to a previous version to re-installing Windows, to using DDU (driver uninstall program), to installing drivers one by one, to modifying various config and *.inf files based on hardware descriptions from my device manager, etc. etc. I can’t seem to get rid of the exclamation point on three of the 8 GPU’s. I have tried to research modification of my mobo’s BIOS, but have changed little in this regard so far. I simply can’t seem to eliminate the error message. More than anything, the fact that I’m not mining yet is killing me! I want to get to the point where I’m mining and my “problems” are then tuning OC/temp./fan/other settings…
Would you be willing to help me? If it is at all possible, we could connect by phone and I could then share my desktop / allow you to remotely connect to my PC through Google or whatever is best for you and look things with me…
Is smOS the answer?
Please let me know your thoughts - thanks so much in advance for your time!
I would like to humbly/respectfully ask the community for help. I know everyone’s time is precious and want to be very sensitive to that. I hope I can learn from you and also give back to the community one day. I have purchased and built my first rig. It is comprised of:
3 Zotac GeForce GTX 1070Ti mini GPUs
3 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti gaming GPUs
2 MSI GeForce GTX 1070Ti gaming GPUs
Ballistix 4GB DDR4 RAM
120GB SSD
ASRock H110 Pro BTC mobo (13 GPU capable)
Intel 3900 CPU
EVGA SuperNova 1600 watt Titanium PSU
I understand that I may have taken on too much for my first rig, but that’s just how I am - I like to try and go all in and intentionally struggle so that I can learn quickly. I spent moths researching and based on efficiency analysis, sols/watt comparisons, investment cost, etc., chose the hardware listed above…I wanted to start and learn through trial and error (hence a big reason for this email). I will build a full farm eventually, likely moving into and trialing ASIC miners in the future…after this rig is complete and fully operational, I plan to invest $25-$50k in an attempt to have some very solid (as solid as crypto can be) passive income.
Anyway, as mentioned, I have fully built the rig and have installed Windows 10. I have installed and un-installed and re-installed and re-un-installed :slight_smile: (more on that in a minute) the drivers and other “helpful” software through Nvidia’s website and other sites that I have found through forums and help groups on line. All GPUs show in device manager as 1070Ti’s and they also show in the GPU-Z software that I downloaded (both good signs I believe), and all seem to power up correctly. However, 3 of the 8 GPU’s show an exclamation point in device manager and Windows says there is “a problem with the device” (error code 43; I understand this is a general error code message). I have spent endless hours on forums, YouTube, and countless websites, and have done everything from rolling back Windows to a previous version to re-installing Windows, to using DDU (driver uninstall program), to installing drivers one by one, to modifying various config and *.inf files based on hardware descriptions from my device manager, etc. etc. I can’t seem to get rid of the exclamation point on three of the 8 GPU’s. I have tried to research modification of my mobo’s BIOS, but have changed little in this regard so far. I simply can’t seem to eliminate the error message. More than anything, the fact that I’m not mining yet is killing me! I want to get to the point where I’m mining and my “problems” are then tuning OC/temp./fan/other settings…
Would you be willing to help me? If it is at all possible, we could connect by phone and I could then share my desktop / allow you to remotely connect to my PC through Google or whatever is best for you and look things with me…
Is smOS the answer?
Please let me know your thoughts - thanks so much in advance for your time!
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