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P106-090 Troubles
Has anyone run into trouble after picking up these old mining cards? I recently bought a Zotac P106-090 from ebay with the plan to have it fold shotgun alongside my 1080ti. After installing it, I fired up GPU-Z to see what I bought, and I was surprised to find that it was missing both CUDA and OpenCL.
Is there a different bios I can flash to? Is this a driver issue? Any help would be much appreciated.
Is there a different bios I can flash to? Is this a driver issue? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
Another weird thing that seems to be happening in this GPU-Z readout is that some of the values look like they're being picked up from the 1080ti. For example, I don't think the P106-090 has 11264 MB of GDDR5X.
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
You may need to reinstall drivers or use a specific version to have support for the P106-090. These have been used by others who have posted here.
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
There is also a bios update for this GPU
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/213 ... 072-170712
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/213 ... 072-170712
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
Ok, I flashed it with that bios but still no change. GPU-Z still indicates that there is no support for OpenCL or CUDA.
The system I'm running it in is a dual-boot windows 10/linux mint 20 machine. I'm running the 457.30 nvidia driver in windows. The p106 card detects in nvflash, but it does not show up in MSI afterburner. F@H shows that the card is there but is "disabled".
In linux, I have the newest nvidia driver as well (450something?), and the card is not listed in nvidia x-server.
I was under the impression that these cards are more or less plug and play since they're the same silicon as a 1060 3GB. Is it possible that I just got a defective item from the ebay used hardware lottery or are there more tweaks I can play with?
The system I'm running it in is a dual-boot windows 10/linux mint 20 machine. I'm running the 457.30 nvidia driver in windows. The p106 card detects in nvflash, but it does not show up in MSI afterburner. F@H shows that the card is there but is "disabled".
In linux, I have the newest nvidia driver as well (450something?), and the card is not listed in nvidia x-server.
I was under the impression that these cards are more or less plug and play since they're the same silicon as a 1060 3GB. Is it possible that I just got a defective item from the ebay used hardware lottery or are there more tweaks I can play with?
Re: P106-090 Troubles
Have you tried running a WU on F@H to see if it runs CUDA? So many things are incorrect in that GPU-Z display with regards to the actual specs of the P106-90 card that it may just not be detecting support correctly.
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When installing two cards on Linux, I had to re-install the Nvidia drivers in the Ubuntu/Mint driver tool, and I am running the "server" variant of the drivers. What does the first 200 or so lines of FAH logs show when you start it up? How about ouput of the nvidia-smi command?
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
Well this is interesting...
$ nvidia-smi
Unable to determine the device handle for GPU 0000:0A:00.0: GPU is lost. Reboot the system to recover this GPU
$ nvidia-smi
Unable to determine the device handle for GPU 0000:0A:00.0: GPU is lost. Reboot the system to recover this GPU
Re: P106-090 Troubles
Assuming the drivers and firmware are up to date, that suggests a broken card. Can you try it in a different slot or machine?
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
Someone else has had trouble with the latest Nvidia drivers (457.30): viewtopic.php?p=345851#p345851
The former version might help.
The former version might help.
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Re: P106-090 Troubles
I'm trying it in a different machine. I think it is not playing well with a second card. Using putty to remote to the machine with just the p106-090 installed, nvidia-smi does recognize that it is there which is a step in the right direction. It is still disabled in F@H but I have a few more things to try now. I'll roll back the driver to 435 and try reinstalling the F@H client.
I'll let everyone know how that works out. Thanks for all of the suggestions so far!
I'll let everyone know how that works out. Thanks for all of the suggestions so far!
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Do you have PCIe power plugged into the card? I had issues with mine until I gave it external power, then it worked fine.
Odd as it should be well below 75 watts, but it is what it is.
Odd as it should be well below 75 watts, but it is what it is.
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hey sorry for the offtopic, i have the same card but i reccommend you to backup your actual bios because with the latest one all drivers crash... and can i ask you to make a backup and send it to me? i cannot find anything online... (i just registered here for this lol)Steinosaur4 wrote:Has anyone run into trouble after picking up these old mining cards? I recently bought a Zotac P106-090 from ebay with the plan to have it fold shotgun alongside my 1080ti. After installing it, I fired up GPU-Z to see what I bought, and I was surprised to find that it was missing both CUDA and OpenCL.
Is there a different bios I can flash to? Is this a driver issue? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Odd, mine is running this BIOS and it's folding fine,PiMi wrote:hey sorry for the offtopic, i have the same card but i reccommend you to backup your actual bios because with the latest one all drivers crash... and can i ask you to make a backup and send it to me? i cannot find anything online... (i just registered here for this lol)
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after the bios update i can't install any driver, i get everytime bsod caused by nvlddmkm.syskb9skw wrote:Odd, mine is running this BIOS and it's folding fine,PiMi wrote:hey sorry for the offtopic, i have the same card but i reccommend you to backup your actual bios because with the latest one all drivers crash... and can i ask you to make a backup and send it to me? i cannot find anything online... (i just registered here for this lol)
edit: modded 416.34 seems working but i got an error about APi's (don't know how to translate in english, i'm italian lol)