\[SOLVED\] 200 FTC bounty to anyone who can get me up and running again
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Hi,
First off, if I’m breaking any forum rules with the bounty, or I’m posting in the wrong forum, I apologize, please let me know. If this post is ok as is, I’ll move on.
I’ve been mining for about 4 months using a rig with 2 MSI R9 280x GPU’s. I purchased the rig off of ebay, (well, the component parts) and through some strong assistance from the seller, was able to assemble it with a limited IT background. And, over the last 4 months, I’ve been running it with very little trouble. The only thing I was never quite able to figure out was how to get it to run stable with both GPU’s at full speed (1 consistently ran at about 740kh/s, the 2nd I could never get above 640kh/s or the temps would get too hot and crashed. So, I played around with the settings and was able to get it to run at the point where I was consistently getting about 1,380kh/s or so, and it would run for well over a week at a time with no problem. Life was good.
Fast forward to about a week ago, the rig went down (that alone wasn’t uncommon as it did tend to happen once every 1-2 weeks, but this time, it wouldn’t boot back up). Forgive me if my terminology isn’t perfect, but the LED indicator on the motherboard will cycle through when I boot it up, but instead of ending on “FF” like it used to, it will show “FF” for about a second, and then ends on “62.”
In an attempt to fix the problem myself, I’ve researched and realized that this code is some sort of boot failure, or something to that effect. With my limited background, I’ve done what I can (I removed the CMOS battery, I’ve unhooked different component parts and tried to re-boot, etc.), to no avail.
So that leaves me here, probably a little out of my league trying to fix this issue. Anyone out there have any ideas? If anyone can talk me through how to figure out what is wrong and fix it, and I can get back up and running, I would very happily pay a 200 FTC bounty.
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Thank you for the response. The motherboard is an ASRock 970 Extreme 4. Its running Windows, I believe 8.1. Booting from an HDD, a 40GB SATA Toshiba 2.5
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IawgoM,
Thank you for taking the time to post. I played around with things some more last night and it looks like it actually ended up being one of my GPU’s causing the problem. The system wouldn’t boot with them both hooked up, when I unhooked one, it seemed to work again. I hadn’t realized it because I had my monitor hooked into the bad one.
Anyways, I appreciate you taking the time to post, so even though your suggestions didn’t directly help me fix the problem, I still thought it made sense to tip you, so I sent 25 FTC’s as a thank you to the address at the bottom of your posts. Thanks again!
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Glad to hear you found the culprit.
Could you add SOLVED to the title of this thread please.
