AMD cards won't do F@H since they have no cuda cores ?

[Markfw]

I installed a 290, and wanted to run some benches, and it configures OK and says running, but stays at zero percent done forever. And GPUZ says no load.

 

[crashtech]

I have Folded with a 290. They're not great at it, but they can work. Something is wrong with your setup, or the card is defective.

 

[Markfw]

I have Folded with a 290. They're not great at it, but they can work. Something is wrong with your setup, or the card is defective.

Well, I deinstalled the F@H client and reinstalled, that did not fix it. Could it be that I did not use driver cleaner to remove the Nvidia drivers ?

I just want to see how much juice they draw. Another program ?

 

[Markfw]

I tried Fahbench. I got "force RMSE error of inf" and some more text.

After googling, it looks like a bad card. Well, I only paid shipping on it to get it. $10.

I will try the other one (I got 2 for $20)

 

[crashtech]

I'm pretty rusty on configs, but yeah. It could be that an older driver rev would would better too, as the 290 is getting old.

 

[Markfw]

I'm pretty rusty on configs, but yeah. It could be that an older driver rev would would better too, as the 290 is getting old.

Sounds like a good idea, I will try that first ! Thanks !

 

[TennesseeTony]

Brony@home complained loudly that they were never able to get AMD cards to fold on LINUX. This is a Linux box, right?

 

[Markfw]

Brony@home complained loudly that they were never able to get AMD cards to fold on LINUX. This is a Linux box, right?

windows

 

[Markfw]

well, I tried 14.14 and 15.7 (the first win 10 drivers), No luck. 15.7 leaves no error messages in the log, but it does not do anything

Oh, and milkyway@home does not work either, it does not even see the card. (when I set it for "use GPU always" it still does not even try to run it, and thats after reset, reboot, read configs.....

 

[plonk420]

I installed a 290, and wanted to run some benches, and it configures OK and says running, but stays at zero percent done forever. And GPUZ says no load.

if you figure the crunching issue out, try HWInfo64 to detect GPU usage. GPU-Z nor Windows Task Manager would show GPU usage on my 2400G with MilkyWay@Home (Windows 10). it only showed up under compute or some other GPU section in HWInfo...

 

[Markfw]

if you figure the crunching issue out, try HWInfo64 to detect GPU usage. GPU-Z nor Windows Task Manager would show GPU usage on my 2400G with MilkyWay@Home (Windows 10). it only showed up under compute or some other GPU section in HWInfo...

No, 2 ways says its not working. Under BOINC it will say its using GPU, and it does not. And the watts coming out of the wall confirm that.

 

[plonk420]

well, ONCE you figure it out, you may need a tool like HWInfo to check up on it... i did

 

[crashtech]

Sorry Mark, I've got nothing for you but to suggest a fresh install.

 

[TennesseeTony]

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Use DDU and uninstall EVERYTHING (amd/intel/nvidia) then check the box to disable Windows from auto-installing it's own MicroS**t driver, if you haven't already. Then run the AMD driver of your choice after the safe mode/reboot thing happens.

Windows 7 or 10? Seven shouldn't be so hard, but Ten is often more annoying.

 

[Markfw]

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Use DDU and uninstall EVERYTHING (amd/intel/nvidia) then check the box to disable Windows from auto-installing it's own MicroS**t driver, if you haven't already. Then run the AMD driver of your choice after the safe mode/reboot thing happens.

Windows 7 or 10? Seven shouldn't be so hard, but Ten is often more annoying.

OK, so I went one better. scratch install on a wiped hard drive. Install win 10, then AMD drivers (per the AMD site, minimal install), then F@H. NOTHING, it says all is well, but after 10 minutes, not even 1%, and the draw at the wall is still the same, CPU full load=120 watts.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Time to learn how to flash a Vid card BIOS perhaps. This is one of the mining modded cards from DrMrLordX?

 

[Markfw]

Time to learn how to flash a Vid card BIOS perhaps. This is one of the mining modded cards from DrMrLordX?

Yes, it was modded ??

 

[TennesseeTony]

The BIOS. Several of the cards were BIOS modded, but not all. He was pretty specific in the descriptions which were and were not modded.

Gigabyte R9 290 - works, but is BIOS modded. Original box.
XFX R9 290 - works, but is BIOS modded. Original box.
(2) Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X - worst mining cards evar. Well, not really. But they suck power, and BIOS modding didn't help much. Both are modded with the same BIOS. They have a switch, and only one of the BIOSes is modded. And yeah, they work. No packaging.
Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X - works, but is BIOS modded. It has a switch, I think. No packaging.

Look for a tiny switch on top of the card's exposed PCB, to try the back-up BIOS, if it has one. If not, although I've never flashed a GPU BIOS, it should be much simpler than a motherboard flash, as I imagine it can be done from within Windows.

EDIT: Or.....maybe not, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXbsGK_cSE

Edit again: Or...maybe it is possible under Windows:

About the BIOS mods

Long story short, I modded a lot of these cards, to good effect. But flashing all these cards back to stock would require me pulling my Vega FE to use a non-conflicting driver stack blah blah blah. Anyway Vega + Hawaii = dog's breakfast. I'm too lazy to mess with all that. I have copies of all the original BIOS files for anyone that needs them. It is not hard at all to flash these cards under Windows, and I have done so multiple times without incident. Some of the cards will boot into primary display duty "just fine" with a modded BIOS, but at least one of them - the MSI 390 - may not play ball with you. Also, I generally do not recommend flashing any of these cards when they are given primary display duty. Just my $.02 on that.

 

[Markfw]

I found instructions here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-ati-flashing-guide.212849/
and downloaded and flashed 172478.rom from here: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/172478/172478

It looked like it was successful, but still to no avail, same problem.

@DrMrLordX, is there a different bios on these cards ? where is the switch that I may need to move for bios flash ? do you have the original rom bios file ?

 

[TennesseeTony]

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Use DDU and uninstall EVERYTHING (amd/intel/nvidia) then check the box to disable Windows from auto-installing it's own MicroS**t driver, if you haven't already. Then run the AMD driver of your choice after the safe mode/reboot thing happens.

Windows 7 or 10? Seven shouldn't be so hard, but Ten is often more annoying.

I'd try DDU now, then, making sure not to allow the driver to be auto-installed from MS.
edit: Actually first, download/install/run FurMark. If that does or does not work (high frames per second, or not), then we can tell the card driver is actually installed or not.
Then I'd try again on Win7.
Then I'd burn the cards with fire.
Then I'd sell them on ebay as defective, for parts only.

 

[Markfw]

I'd try DDU now, then, making sure not to allow the driver to be auto-installed from MS.
edit: Actually first, download/install/run FurMark. If that does or does not work (high frames per second, or not), then we can tell the card driver is actually installed or not.
Then I'd try again on Win7.
Then I'd burn the cards with fire.
Then I'd sell them on ebay as defective, for parts only.

Furmark says "running" in a black window, no error, no output and no change in wall current draw.

I went back and read the freebee's thread. I need to wait for a reply on the bios files, the switch and the procedure.

 

[TennesseeTony]

FurMark should be showing some graphics. Hmm.

 

[Markfw]

so I flashed it with the original bios with the button pressed (and blue LED) and unpressed (off) then reinstalled drivers. Still nothing. It boots, you can see the screen, but no folding. BOINC or furmark

 

[crashtech]

Is it busted? How about some other benchmark like good old Unigine Heaven?

 

[TennesseeTony]

Well it's not totally busted. It is working as a standard VGA card. I still suspect Win10 over-riding the drivers...