Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Initial SetUp

when setting up the hardware, patience is KEY !! remember be patient, if needed please be in a air-conditioned room while doing this and play some music of your liking :) Now lets start !!! Please have a wired Mouse and Keyboard (from experience hehehe :) ) DO NOT PLUG IN YOU POWER SUPPLY YET :) Remember to be careful with the CPU chip and please please please ensure the CPU Fan is secured properly on the mother, otherwise you are sure to get hardware error when you boot up the system. There will be 4 anchor point and make sure you hears a clip sound and verify under the mother board that the white piece is through. Insert the Ram should be easy :) Insert the HDD via Sata Cable mount the mother board on the shoe rack, when placing the mother board be very delicate with handling the board; and make sure the CPU fan does not come lose. if you can see the GPU sits nicely on the shoe rack.
DO NOT MOUNT THE GPU YET. Now plug in the powersupply to the mother board, CPU and HDD, (make sure the key board and mouse is plugged in). If you are not able to see anything on screen look at the motherboard error and flip the setup guide book and see where or what went wrong. If all is well then bootup the the system to test run. if all is able to boot up then proceed to Bios to change the boot settings. Insert your thumbdrive and reboot the system, install the windows. after the windows is setup use the driver disk for the motherboard to install the Drivers need for the motherboard. Connect your LAN cable to the motherboard (LAN cable connection is much much preferred than wireless connection). After all driver installation is done, restart system and mount the 2 GPU on alternate slots leaving the center for the Riser cable 16 X 16 (let me know if you need help getting a riser cable). Boot the system up and see everything is running. if all is well download the Drivers for Radeon go to AMD website and download the version get "catalyst Software Suit - 13.12" do not use the 14.2 as i have used it and it is not stable. after all have been done shutdown your system and insert the last GPU. As you can see my last GPU is sitting on the top of the shoe rack as such :)
Boot it up and see if there is any error (usually there will be due the either you have not secure the riser cable properly or the riser cable that you have brought is faulty). if all is well we can now proceed to choosing a miner and a coin of your liking :)

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