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How to Fix MSI Afterburner Not Saving Core Voltage Setting Value on AMD Cards after Upgrading Windows 10

Microsoft forced my mining rig to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1803 recently, and ever since I noticed an issue where MSI Afterburner 4.5.0 was not able to save the Core Voltage value when undervolting GPUs 2 to 8 on the rig. After saving the core voltage value, it looked likt it was saved, but as soon as I chose another GPU in the list, it would show as 0 again.

Thanks to Unwinder on the MSI Afterburner forums, I was able to find a working fix. The issue is a setting called ULPS, which has to be disabled for each card manually in the registry.

After applying the fix below, now the voltages are being saved and displayed correctly.

How to Disable ULPS on AMD Crossfire Setups

  1. Open the Registry Editor by typing “Regedit” in Windows Search (click the Windows 10 Start icon and just begin typing “Regedit” and it should show up). Right-click it and choose “Run as administrator”.
  2. Go to the “Edit” tab and click on “Find”.
  3. In the text box type in “EnableULPS” and then press Find.
  4. You should see “EnableULPS”. Double click on it.
  5. Change the value from “1” to “0”.
  6. Press F3 to search for the next “EnableULPS” value for cards 1 through 7 or however many you have.
  7. Once all cards’ “EnableULPS” values have been set to 0, restart your computer / mining rig and it should now work fine.

 

Website Owners Getting the AdSense “You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue” Message

Update: This issue is now marked as “RESOLVED”. Here’s the official word:

Update (11am, August 31): The issue with our notification system has been resolved. If you’re still seeing an alert in your account that you have rejected ad requests, please follow the instructions in the Help Center article linked from that alert to resolve the issue. Thanks for your patience as we resolved this.

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How to Resolve the “Setup was unable to create a new system partition” Issue During Windows 7 Setup

Just the other day, I stumbled upon a couple of challenges when trying to install Windows 7 on a RAID array of two SSDs on my computer.

1st Issue: The missing RAID drivers

Since they didn’t exist when Windows 7 SP1 was put together, I had to load them manually inside of Windows 7 Setup.

This was simple enough, though:

  • I got on my laptop and downloaded the Intel RAID drivers from the ASUS support page for my Sabertooth X79 motherboard, then extracted the files to a USB drive.
  • I unplugged the USB disk from my laptop and loaded the driver from within Windows 7 Setup by connecting the USB drive to my main computer while in the “Where do you want to install Windows?” screen. I clicked “Load Driver” and browsed to the “Driver\Disk\64bit” folder. The next screen let me choose which driver to install (only gave me one choice).
  • The driver loaded in a couple of minutes and the disk showed up, just like a good student to school.

2nd Issue: “Setup was unable to create a new system partition”

This issue was a little trickier. To my disappointment, Windows 7 wouldn’t let me install on the RAID disk array I had chosen, giving the following error message:

“Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information”. Continue reading