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Hi, I'm back again, and have a new GPU. (Sapphire HD7870) I got my HD7770 working previously that I had trouble with, I tried the same steps but haven't had any luck. I read another thread with someone having trouble with a similar GPU. Here is my information:

Device ID: 1002-6818 (From GPU-Z)

From my last thread regarding an HD7770:

One way to get the PCI ID is to run "fahclient --lspci" from the fahclient directory. Then we'll open a support ticket to get that supported hardware on the Whitelist to enable it.

^ how do I do that? Is that from a command prompt?

Since you have the device ID, don't need to run LSPCI.

And the 7870 is in the latest GPUs.txt, you probably just need to download that and put it in your fahclient data folder.

Then restart the client, and post your ***System*** section of the log. Thanks.

Try putting the GPU.txt file in the Data Directory (Start->All Programs->FAHClient->Data Directory) and then restart the client so it will load the file. If that does not solve the problem then we need to do more detective work.

I put the GPUs.txt in the Data Directory. Still tells me "no more GPUs"

10:32:41:******************************* System ********************************
10:32:41: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
10:32:41: CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
10:32:41: CPUs: 4
10:32:41: Memory: 7.97GiB
10:32:41: Free Memory: 6.49GiB
10:32:41: Threads: WINDOWS_THREADS
10:32:41: On Battery: false
10:32:41: UTC offset: -4
10:32:41: PID: 4836
10:32:41: CWD: C:/Users/stickg1/AppData/Roaming/FAHClient
10:32:41: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
10:32:41: OS Arch: AMD64
10:32:41: GPUs: 0
10:32:41: CUDA: Not detected
10:32:41:Win32 Service: false

At that point you need to give us the output of fahclient -lspci regardless of what GPU-Z says the card is.

Run a cmd box (also called a DOS box) by start->search->cmd.exe and run the program (cmd.exe) that comes up and that will get you the DOS box. In the DOS box type fahclient -lspci <enter>. Rt. click the output and choose "select all" followed by a ctrl-c (to copy it) then paste (ctrl-v) what you copied into a post here.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\stickg1>fahclient --lspci
VendorID:DeviceID:Vendor Name:Description
0x1002:0x6818:Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI:AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
0x1002:0xaab0:Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI:High Definition Audio Control
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0x197b:0x2362:JMicron Technology Corp.:Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
0x1b21:0x1042:ASMedia Technology Inc.:ASMedia XHCI Controller
0x1b21:0x1042:ASMedia Technology Inc.:ASMedia XHCI Controller
0x8086:0x0100:Intel Corporation:PCI standard host CPU bridge
0x8086:0x0101:Intel Corporation:PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
0x8086:0x1503:Intel Corporation:Ethernet Controller
0x8086:0x1c02:Intel Corporation:Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller
0x8086:0x1c10:Intel Corporation:PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
0x8086:0x1c18:Intel Corporation:PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
0x8086:0x1c1a:Intel Corporation:PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
0x8086:0x1c1c:Intel Corporation:PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
0x8086:0x1c20:Intel Corporation:High Definition Audio Controller
0x8086:0x1c22:Intel Corporation:SM Bus Controller
0x8086:0x1c26:Intel Corporation:Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
0x8086:0x1c2d:Intel Corporation:Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
0x8086:0x1c3a:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
0x8086:0x1c44:Intel Corporation:PCI standard ISA bridge

C:\Users\stickg1>

That matches GPU-Z.

What version of the CAT driver? Try 12.1 instead.

I use 12.6. If I have to rollback that far then I guess I just wont fold with the GPU. 12.6 was a major improvement for this cards performance and 12.7 is supposed to be even more of a boost. I'll check back when 12.6 becomes folding friendly I suppose. Thanks for all your help.

12.1 was a request to see if it worked better with OpenCL. I know 12.4 had a problem, haven't heard yet if versions newer than 12.4 work any better yet.

You can come back to 12.6/7 after the test.

Roger that, it's worth a shot. I get about 14K PPD with just the i5 @ 4.3GHz. Was hoping to get up a little more though. Ill post back with my results.

I dont know that 12.1 works with the HD7000 series. I swept all the drivers and installed 12.1 and didn't recognize my card. I'll try a different version.

Are you aware that your GPU will require a full CPU core to work ?

If you manage to make it work, you'll have to reconfigure your SMP slot to use only 3 cores of your i5 if you don't want to see awful performance from both you CPU and your GPU ...

And sometimes, the PPD boost from the GPU is not enough to balance the PPD loss on the CPU ...

I bought a Sapphire 7750. With the included 12.4 driver and with the 12.6 beta driver, I got lockups. The company RMA'ed and replaced the card. When I got the new one, the 12.6 release driver worked.

Dunno if it was the card or the newer driver. However, from the VERY quick agreement to swap out the card, I have the feeling Sapphire has some hardware issues...

Hmm, 12.1, 12.4, 12.6, and beta 12.7 didn't work. I think I'll just stick to the CPU.

I thought it might boost my PPD because when I had 6950's in CF-X I was pulling about 40K PPD.

I still can't get it to work. Not sure what is wrong.