Trying to mine on WIN11 - WinRig0 error and no MSR

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Trying to mine on WIN11 - WinRig0 error and no MSR #125

Open ApexCore opened 3 years ago

ApexCore commented 3 years ago

Hey all,

I'm trying to mine on WIN 11 on my personal rig aswell, but I get some errors: 1 - failed to start WinRig0 2 - failed to set MSR (3 - miner says only 16 threads, but I actually run the 3950x with 32 threads.)

I am running the bat and exes as admin and couldn't figure out what could be the problem. Has it something to do with fTPM requirement for WIN11?

Any help is grealty appreciated!

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michal-zurkowski commented 3 years ago

WinRing0 error is related to something else using the same winring0 functionality like afterburner, hwinfo, niceshas or other monitoring and managment software. Miner was not fully tested on Windows 11 and in theory can have problems there.

the 16 threads, it is possible that you have SMT/HT disabled in the bios. 16 threads on 16core cpu would really suggest that.

ApexCore commented 3 years ago

@michal-zurkowski ah could be that hwinfo gets in the way, gotta try and will report back. thanks EDIT: shutting down services like hwinfo did not change anything unfortunately. I did have SMT off in bios, so (3) is fixed. EDIT2: I found the culprit - it was the aquasuite service running my watercooling loop. Everything works perfectly when I first close the services, start the miner and then start the services again. Not ideal, but it works. If anyone knows a simpler workaround, I'd be happy to know :)