Hello,

Ok so Ive been having an abundance of problems witha mining rig I set up. ITs been a week now and Im still not running :/
Ive fixed most of my problems got my comp running with 5 gpus connected. (This was hard)

Now only 2 of my gpus seem to be working. The other three are getting ( This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12))
I can not for the life of me figure it out. I will pay for someone to help me fix it fg. Even if you have to remote my computer have it set up rdy.

Heres my Mobo
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/Z170-A-PRO.html#hero-specification
Than Im running
2 x gtx 1060
2 x gtx 970s
gtx 1070.

I also have a rx 480 . Im basically trying to get the most cards I can on this mobo I figured just sticking with the nvidea ones would be better


Edit: Ive just finished doing a fresh install of windows. I than installed the motherboard chip set and than the graphics drivers. Same problem recognizes only 2 gpus.





This post was edited by popple384 on Jun 30 2017 12:41pm

my guess is software related

...as someone said in the other post, GTX 1060's can't be run in SLI, even if they are the only two cards you are running.
I would assume that this is the cause of most of the problem. That and the fact that all the other cards are different.



Aside from all that, the Z170 chipset only supports 20 PCIe lanes, and depending on the CPU, maybe 16 more lanes.
This would cause the Code 12 error, with the amount of vid cards you are trying to run.

OP theres no reason to run anything in sli for mining
you also don't need to be using all the same graphics card

you could try running each slot at 4x if you only have 20 lanes
i am not sure how bandwidth intensive this workload is, recommend making sure it won't be a huge bottleneck first by only running the 1070 at 16x then at 4x and seeing if there's a a major difference in throughput.

This post was edited by DCSS on Jun 30 2017 02:39pm

What else are you running that uses PCIe? Like m.2 SSD, PCIe add-on cards, etc? Skylake CPUs provide 16 PCIe lanes (to only the two x16 slots on the board). The Z170 chipset provides an additional 4 lanes to the x1 slots/m.2 slot. May have to do some UEFI configuration for PCIe management.

Edit: My mistake....Z170 adds 20 more, not a total of 20 for the system. May still need to check UEFI settings to see how lanes are being allocated.

This post was edited by Surfpunk on Jul 1 2017 10:08am

You'd likely have to check the manual.


Some boards without a PLX board or w/e its called... Will disable PCI-E slots if you use more than x USB 3.0's or Have more than x sata drives, etc.