What's going on guys? It is Bernardo and yes, we have the Lenovo ThinkPad
p15 Generation two mobile workstation. We're not too long ago did an unboxing slash review on it.
And today is all about configuring it, so we can start cryptocurrency mining.
So let's get right into it. So first thing I like to do is I'm going to right click on the taskbar,
I'm going to go to task manager. I'm going to open up this dialog box, go to performance,
and then go inside the GPU. Now, one of the cool things about the P15. Is that it is housing an
NVIDIA RTX a 5000 graphics card with 16 gigs. So this guy is going to run super smooth. I can't
wait to see the highest hash rate on this machine. This machine is not configured for discrete mode,
it's configured as hybrid mode and the way that I know it's configured as hybrid mode
is that I'm able to see GPU zero and GPU one. If it was on discrete mode, we are only able to see
the NVIDIA card. I'm going to show you guys how to configure that. But before we do that, we need to
do a couple of things on the machine. So I'm going to close this window up and I'm going to click on
start and I'm going to type in power option. And within the power options, I like to make sure that
plugged in is never never because I don't want the machine to go sleep on me when it's mining.
And the next thing that we need to do is configure your Windows updates. It's the worst case scenario
to have your machine mining and it's just going at it. It's trying to solve algorithms and then push
it back to the pool. So you get paid and all of a sudden your machine restarts because of a Windows
updates. That's horrible right. I'm going to click on the Windows key and type in Windows
services. Hit enter. I'm going to open this guy up we're going to go all the way to the bottom
and we are going to locate Windows Update. Double click on that. We're going to stop it
we are going to make sure it is disabled. We're going to apply it and from here we are going to go
inside recovery tab and make sure that the first failure is on take no action and then apply. Okay,
next thing we need to do is if you do a Windows + I command, we're going to go to updates and
security within updates and security. We're going to click on pause updates for seven days.
If you want you're able to go to Advanced Options and just pause the updates to a longer period
and I'm able to go into January 1 of 2022 awesome. Another way to disable updates
is if you click on start and just type in GP edit and click enter to get inside the
local Group Policy Editor. I'm going to open up this window and within computer configuration
we're going to expand Administrative Templates. We're going to go inside Windows components.
And from here we want to locate Windows updates and the option that we are looking
for is configure automatic updates. So we're going to double click on that
and we are going to click on disable, apply it, okay it and you should be good to go. Before
I restart the machine I have my trusty USB drive with my mining software so I'm going to plug it in
awesome and first thing to do is we are going to make a folder with this name on the desktop.
Okay, paste that there. And I'm going to do a Windows + I and within Windows + I am going to
go inside the updates and security and within there we are going to go to Windows Security.
We're going to click on virus and threat protection
its opened this dialog box up and we need to locate the option that says manage settings
underneath the virus and threat protection settings. So click on that and we need to locate
the following section where it says exclusion. So click on Add or Remove and then add a add a folder
and we want to add this particular folder we don't want this folder to be scanned by doing this.
This basically excludes Microsoft defender from scanning that folder. That's a good thing because
if not, it will remove the exe file and then your mining will stop. So let's close that up.
Close this up. And I'm going to double click here and I'm going to copy everything into
my folder on the desktop. Awesome. All right, great. Everything is copied over to the desktop
folder. And we're going to close this window up. I'm going to click on this
little arrow and I'm going to click here and I'm going to remove the disk.
Awesome. This is removed. Great. I'm going to double click on that folder.
I'm going to go inside this folder. And I'm going to right click on Start underscore miner and click
on edit. Everything is already preset but the only thing that I want to do here is change the name
of the worker it is not the P620. It is basically the P15. This will basically tell me which worker
is doing what behind the scenes and we are going to do a CTRL + S to save it and we're going to
close that window. Okay, so let's configure our graphics mode. So I'm going to close this guy up
I'm going to do a Windows + I command. I'm going to go inside updates and security. Within here
let's go inside the recovery section. We're going to click on Restart Now under the Advanced startup
and it's going to restart now from here we're going to pick troubleshoot the P15 is touchscreen
so I'm going to take advantage of that and then click on it awesome. From this menu we are going
to pick on advanced options and we are going to pick on the firmware settings and we're going to
definitely restart the machine. Alright, so finally boot into the BIOS firmware setting
and we are going to go to Configure. Within configure we are going to click on Display
and underneath where it says graphic device by default it is set up to hybrid. We're going
to click on the drop down menu and switch it to discrete and we are going to click on F10
and save configuration changes and exit now yes and awesome. So let it reboot and we're going to
check out the new settings. Alright, so the P15 gen two finally booted up. We made some changes
within the firmware. We change the hybrid to discrete and the way that you could double
check it is right click on the taskbar, go to Task Manager. Let's open up this window. Let's go to
performance. And now you're going to see only one graphics card before we saw GPU zero and then GPU
one. Now we only see GPU zero which is the NVIDIA RTX a 5000 with 16 gigs. Awesome.
So now we are all set. And the next thing that we need to do is let's go inside folder. Within
our folder I am going to double click here and I'm going to start my miner now before I
start the miner I like to use tech power up and the reason why I like to use this utility
is if you go inside sensors. It gives you a nice overview of the temperature,
the memory, the GPU overload, it gives you a good summary or a bird's eye view
of everything that's happening on the graphics card. So I definitely had this up and running
when I start the miner so I'm going to double click on this guy. Awesome. You're
going to get this Windows Firewall blocked some features of this app. So I'm going to do allow
and that's it awesome. It is mining so I'm gonna leave this be for a couple of weeks.
I will follow up with you guys to see how well this graphics card works with this particular
machine. And hopefully you guys enjoy and I catch you guys on the next one. Peace out.