Any Ethereum mining problems with latest Win10 update?

[porina]

Just assembled a "new" system today from combination of old parts and a new SSD with a fresh install of Win10. I can't get Claymore mining Ethereum stably.

 

Initially I put two RX 580's in it, installed Adrenalin 18.4.1, turned OFF crossfire, turn ON compute mode in driver for both cards. If I run Claymore 11.7, one card seems to run ok. The other card runs ok for some seconds, then the memory activity drops to zero and it stops. After some more time, Claymore detects a card is inactive and resets itself. Both cards start working initially, then one drops. Repeat. I tried reverting to an old install of 10.2, but the same was happening.

 

Ok, let's try diagnosing with one card. I took out the 2nd card, leaving just one in there. This single card is now doing it. Random thinking: could there be something new in the latest Win10 update that is causing this interference? Both cards were working fine individually in other Win10 systems (FCU) before I moved it over to this system.

 

Oh, I have to add, AMD drivers (particularly Wattman) still sucks. I could change the settings on one card no problem. No matter how hard I tried, the other, it kept jumping back to defaults when I hit Apply. Before anyone asks, I did try mining with both cards stock, and that didn't help either.

 

I'm probably at the stage where I should start looking seriously at dedicated linux miners... put nvidia cards back into Windows systems as they just work relatively painlessly.