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Auto installation of AMD Drivers on HiveOS/Ubuntu

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#76

I haven’t done any overclocking, I’ve just told it to use the temp sensor as a throttle pedal, and from boot either card only use around 135-137w when they’re running at peak.
My next step in cooling solutions is to basically convert it into a “naked” R9 “Deluxe.” with a real GPU fan and heatsink with individual heat sinks for the memory chips and MOSFET transistors.

Where did you get the BIOS for the card? I have a 3rd card that only maxes out at 23.5 MH/s, and If I were to edit the bios, I’d like to do all 3.

#77

I started using S9150s due to their low price and high amount of VRAM.

I have 4 of them, with 6 more coming from eBay ($88 EACH WITH SHIPPING!! :smirk:)

My cooling solution was just to use a holesaw to drill a hole in side of the plastic shroud, bolt a 90mm fan to the hole and connect the fan to an external power splitter. Then just use tape to block off the rear opening of the shroud. The whole process takes like 5-10 mins per card, max.

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Temps are usually 60-75C for the four S9150s I’m using now as long as I keep airflow on the backplate to cool the rear of the PCB as well.

Power consumption is about 180W per card from the wall with a Kill-A-Watt meter.

Modded Dell Firepro S9150 16GB BIOS ROM with 1000Mhz core clock and 1000Mhz memory clock, and 1100mv core/mem voltages. Constant 28.6Mh/s in Phoenixminer in HiveOS. Works with Dell and HP Firepro S9150 16GB cards.

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My custom BIOS is here:
https://gofile.io/d/8Tfjg7

Flashing the ROMs took a lot of tries… kept failing in my Windows desktop over and over again. I had to go into Safe Mode AND uninstall the card from the Device Manager before it would flash with any reliability.

#78

I tried that with one of my cards, except I bought an adapter to use the onboard fan control/power so i could regulate it from the control panel, even though I leave them at 100% almost all of the time anyways. I have concerns about running the cards at those temperatures, as they just don’t seem to run that stable for me, and keep rebooting. They love operating in the 45-50*c range, and can go an entire week without rebooting, if there aren’t any other reasons for a restart.

I will give the custom BIOS a try on the card I’m customizing right now. I’ve removed the cover and the huge passive heat sink, and I’m basically turning it into a “R9 Deluxe” by using individual heat sinks for the memory and CMOS transistors, and an “Active” fan powered heat sink for the GPU.
It’s going to be the ‘rat rod’ of server cards. Hopefully, this will make them a viable alternative to the crazy prices and non-availability of new cards.
Thanks for the tips.

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#79

I considered watercooling the chip and putting those heatsinks on all the RAM and voltage regulators, but the cost per card would have been prohibitive.

It’s just way cheaper to run the original heatsink and add a fan. I also happen to have a ton of old fans around my house.

Temps in the 60’s are nothing for the Hawaii chips… they run HOT … if you look at people mining and gaming on the R9 290X and 390X, they usually run in the mid 80’s the entire time!

Tell me how the BIOS works… my cards have been rock solid.

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#80

Hi there. Could it be a driver error? : Autofan: GPU temperature 511 is unreal, driver error
I got random 0 Mh/s with 100% in my rig. There are 6 cards in it. I have tried to lower the tuning, but as the miner starts, randomly 2 cards failing…

Is there any solution for this issue?

#81

In 95% cases it’s power issue and rest 5% some cards return similar data when it totally hangs due OC

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#82

What kind of hardware are you running?

Please put your rig info in your next response (cpu, mb, psus, type of risers, and gpu (and bios, modded or stock).

Also, if possible, screenshots of your hiveos settings.

#83

I tried to do the bios mod through hiveos, but it wouldn’t take.
I have another card coming. I’m going to stick with the snail shell coolers for now. At least they make temps more reasonable than trying to outthink a GPU manufacturer.

#84

Hi. Im hoping to piggy back on this thread. Will this work for any AMD gpu, or us it only for the RX family and up? I’m having a ton of stability issues with my R9 390 rig. I’ve been getting the GPU driver error, no temps message then my miner shuts down. Most of the time only 3 of the 4 cards boot back up and I have to remot shut it down for a 120 seconds and boot it back up to get it to recognize the 4th card. I feel like it’s a driver issue, but I have no idea what driver I need. Any help would be appreciated.

#85

Will “what” work?

If you want stability, you need to figure out why it’s unstable.

I think you should open a new thread and put your entire rig configuration in it.

We don’t know anything about your rig except that you have 4 R9 390s

#86

I apologize for any issue I might have caused by posting here. I did start my own thread about the error I was getting with the run down of my system. However, I will give you a run down of my system.

CPU: i5 4590
MB: ASrock H81 pro R2.0
RAM: 8gb 1600
GPU: 4 R9 390
SSD: 128gb
PSU: 2 850w 80+ gold Rosewill

The error that I keep getting is GPU drivers not detected, no temps

#87

The script has been updated to include the new drivers also

#88

are there any plans to update to 20.04 and beyond?

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#89

AMD drivers are in version 21-40-1 maybe they have improvements …

#90

Hi. I would like to ask how did you connect this vent to the graphics card. I have an adapter and the same vent, but the only way I figured out is to connect at max rpm to a molex 12V. I cannot master the possibility of controlling its rotation.
Is there one board connecting the son of a grapple card to this vent?

I read what you wrote about the drivers.
Do I understand correctly that you need to install amd-gpu-pro drivers?
Thank you for applying to your advice.

#91

was going to use this to update past what my rigs currently have, but the latest option on the list when i run it is what i’ve got. is there a way to get a version past 20.40 or is it even worth messin with?
most of my amd gpu’s are rx580’s and a few rx5700xt’s…and one v56.

#92

Hi. I faced with this error. Please help me.

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#93

It seems like the script is not up to date, I wanted to uninstall latest AMD drivers in the stable version but uninstall script is missing

#94

I upgrade the Hive OS by

  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt dist-upgrade

Then use the three script lines, and end up with the below error, please support

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
dpkg-query: no packages found matching amdgpu-pro

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#95

Try amd-ocl-install instead, this method is quite dated now.