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6 Antminer S5s all running slow on nicehash/westhash and randomly locking up about one a week, sp20s run full speed... any ideas?
I'm running the updated firmware with extranonce enabled from Smit1237, but all 6 of my s5 miners run between 950 and 1050gh/s vs running near 1200gh/s when running on kano.is or a couple of other pools. I've had 4 lockups in the last 5 weeks as well, box is just offline. Cycling power fixes the offline issue.
4 of them are powered via an IBM 2880W PSU with j4bberwock's breakout board, the other two are powered by an EVGA 1300, so power shouldn't be an issue. There's plenty of overhead on the 2880 and some overhead on the EVGA.
Any ideas on how to get them to run at proper speeds on westhash.com?
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I'm not sure if this is the proper thread for this, but I'm still unable to get my SP20s to work with Extranonce subscription on West/NiceHash if the pricing option is set.
If I leave the password field blank, it works and shows the green check. If I set a price limit, it works but without Extranonce.
I have Extranonce subscription enabled on the SP20 (option 2) and using the latest non beta firmware.
Are you using the right url? Example: stratum+tcp://scrypt..westhash.com:PORT_NUM/#xnsub You need that last part. Plus have it turned on. It should work. Can you take a screenshot of it being set and also pool config? There's no slash needed. stratum+tcp://stratum.westhash.com:3334#xnsub |
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Any idea what's going on here? For the last 30 minutes, I'm showing 0.0000 BTC/TH/Day pay rate while the site is showing 0.0110/BTC/TH/Day  All my boxes are still showing as mining and handing in shares. |
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Received NIB box s4+ as advertised, thanks!
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Is there any way in software to shut the miner down?
I have some remote boxes that are going to be without internet for about 8 hours tomorrow, I don't want to have them overheat.
no i dont know of any way to turn off the miner completely from software.. just reboot. you try to SSH into the miner, and do a shutdown -t now i dunno if that will turn it off tho.. it might put it in a limbo state where you would have to power cycle the psu to get it back on. Back when there was scheduled tasks one could put a hashmark before cgminer-monitor that ran every 3 minutes, save, then send a halt command via ssh. Without stopping with cgminer-monitor it would restart. You might try /etc/init.d/minermonitor stop then ssh in and give a halt. Then check if it starts heating. Still you'd have a restart issue with linux shut down your ssh session would cease and not leave a reconnection. Living out in the hinterland I had been having internet loss problems some years back. I put an X-10 device on the docsis cable modem and another on the first router. On a linux system I have a program to ping my DNS every 5 minutes and test if the ping was good. If not the x-10 would shut off power to the modem and router, time out a period then restart the modem, wait for its usual wakeup period then wakeup the router, wait for its usual wakeup period then test the ping again. If left to the docsis modems own devices it sometimes would be down an hour mid-week early in the AM. With this arrangement it's back up much sooner. But the internet losses have been much less frequent the last two years. You may be able to run x-10 devices from a RPi or BBB. I'm not sure the X-10 devices can handle miner current so you may have to run those to heavy duty relays. Then when the halt command kills ssh connections and prevents reconnecting, you can ssh to the device controlling the X-10's, kill the power to the miners for as long as you need, then fire them up when ready. Thank you, I wound up just shutting them down via ssh, shutdown -h now worked fine. And how will you restart? I have control of the PDU ports, I should be able to cycle them and restart. If not I'll need to take a drive. |
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Is there any way in software to shut the miner down?
I have some remote boxes that are going to be without internet for about 8 hours tomorrow, I don't want to have them overheat.
no i dont know of any way to turn off the miner completely from software.. just reboot. you try to SSH into the miner, and do a shutdown -t now i dunno if that will turn it off tho.. it might put it in a limbo state where you would have to power cycle the psu to get it back on. Back when there was scheduled tasks one could put a hashmark before cgminer-monitor that ran every 3 minutes, save, then send a halt command via ssh. Without stopping with cgminer-monitor it would restart. You might try /etc/init.d/minermonitor stop then ssh in and give a halt. Then check if it starts heating. Still you'd have a restart issue with linux shut down your ssh session would cease and not leave a reconnection. Living out in the hinterland I had been having internet loss problems some years back. I put an X-10 device on the docsis cable modem and another on the first router. On a linux system I have a program to ping my DNS every 5 minutes and test if the ping was good. If not the x-10 would shut off power to the modem and router, time out a period then restart the modem, wait for its usual wakeup period then wakeup the router, wait for its usual wakeup period then test the ping again. If left to the docsis modems own devices it sometimes would be down an hour mid-week early in the AM. With this arrangement it's back up much sooner. But the internet losses have been much less frequent the last two years. You may be able to run x-10 devices from a RPi or BBB. I'm not sure the X-10 devices can handle miner current so you may have to run those to heavy duty relays. Then when the halt command kills ssh connections and prevents reconnecting, you can ssh to the device controlling the X-10's, kill the power to the miners for as long as you need, then fire them up when ready. Thank you, I wound up just shutting them down via ssh, shutdown -h now worked fine. |
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Best be, call the data center you are hosting your miner and request them to power it off, then call them back when the internet is back on to power it on!! Always, it's better than sorry. Is there any way in software to shut the miner down?
I have some remote boxes that are going to be without internet for about 8 hours tomorrow, I don't want to have them overheat.
no i dont know of any way to turn off the miner completely from software.. just reboot. you try to SSH into the miner, and do a shutdown -t now i dunno if that will turn it off tho.. it might put it in a limbo state where you would have to power cycle the psu to get it back on. A feature like that would be very nice, like you can do on the Spondoolies boxes. |
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Is there any way in software to shut the miner down?
I have some remote boxes that are going to be without internet for about 8 hours tomorrow, I don't want to have them overheat.
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Open box unit pending sale.
Let me know if the open box falls through, if it does, I'll take it. |
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in fact and truth, S3 is much more stable than S5, S3 and 4x I had never had problems restarting, power loss, or other problems such as blade 1 dead, since I switched to 4x S5 began the problems, lama dies, errors very high, not always, a sharp drop in power hash, this time the engineers have done a poor job, which could accommodate believe, then they are also too much noise,
I've got 6 of the S5s now and haven't experienced anything like you're talking about. The only issues I've had are: rapid switching on/off westhash/nicehash causes a drop in GH/sec loss of internet access has caused fan/thermal runaway once |
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W0lf is right, and I could add that you probably won't ROI unless bitcoin price unexpectedly rises even if you are buying gpus only and not the whole computer. At least I would mine on a loss with my 0.12€/kWh if I turned them back on. So if its for fun and to learn new things, sure, give it a shot. With two gpus in one rig it is a good gaming computer too  I can see that, I'm not sure rates are way different with AMD cards, but I've earned a whopping 18 cents mining x11/x13 today with the GTX750i in my work rig. haha |
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I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so. I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.
All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.
Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?
Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.
I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.
Thanks!
Scrypt is ASIC mined now - GPUs are no longer effective on it. The best GPU to buy depends on your power cost and the algo you want to mine. Interesting, what are the right/best things to be mining via GPU? Is it even worth doing at all? This is a hard question to answer, as I'm heavily biased - due to my ability to greatly improve the code of the miner for better hashrates and efficiency, I of course think it's worth it. To try and put myself in your shoes, there are a lot of people GPU mining. You need an edge - something not everyone has - to make money. Is it worth it? That depends on your motivation. If it is solely profit, then only if you can find a nice advantage to leverage against the masses of other miners. If it's for fun, of course it is! It's an amazing hobby! Thanks for the insight. I'm not super motivated by profit really, just seemed like there was a chance to generate some extra revenue if the cards would ROI, but it doesn't sound like that. I have a small (30th) bitcoin mining farm that I run in east Washington state where I get access to super cheap electricity. There's something about mining that I enjoy, hell I might still buy a couple of r9 280s just because, even if they never do ROI :p |
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I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so. I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.
All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.
Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?
Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.
I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.
Thanks!
Scrypt is ASIC mined now - GPUs are no longer effective on it. The best GPU to buy depends on your power cost and the algo you want to mine. Interesting, what are the right/best things to be mining via GPU? Is it even worth doing at all? |
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Sounds like someone is going to get fired when work finds out you're doing this.
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Hi.
I want to buy 4 of these. Where can i get them in U.S.?
Thanks,
used hardware is your only chance. SP won't be making any consumer grade hardware in the future it looks like. Ebay and this forums hardware section normally have some. Sadly no new ones, but I have had some a while no issues. They seem to last and preform good even after month's of running so I would not be to afraid of used market. I have under clocked mine though I like the electric efficiency better then top speed. Honestly looking at the prices I'm considering just selling my 8 and replacing them with s5's. :p |
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I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so. I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.
All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.
Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?
Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.
I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.
Thanks!
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Hi.
I want to buy 4 of these. Where can i get them in U.S.?
Thanks,
used hardware is your only chance. SP won't be making any consumer grade hardware in the future it looks like. |
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spondoolies is no longer in production  For home mining it looks like. I'm hoping small scale business miners will still be able to purchase their products. |
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some of you are using firmware smith with cgminer 4.9? for antminer s5?
Yes, that's what I use on all 6 of my S5s. I haven't had a lockup, but if there's a lot of swapping back and for the hash rate on the S5s will drop to around 1th/s once they're back on their primary pool until you reboot. For now I've just put the price so high on the S5s they won't switch over unless its very lucrative. All of the Spondoolies boxes can swap back and forth at will without issue. |
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I'd only be able to offer 600 many a little more. The reason he is also probably selling so low for if you don't get those at a very cheap price there power hungry even getting them at 600 would take a year to theoreticaly take a year to pay it off with electricity..
Why do people constantly throw these ridiculous made up numbers out? its impossible to figure ROI on a box, and you have no idea 1) what bitcoin's value will be in a year, or 2) what network difficulty will be. If you mine, you mine because you 1) are into bitcoin as a hobby, 2) are into long term bitcoin holding which means you believe in their value over time or 3) have cheap or free electricity (can also be a subset of 2) For me, if bitcoin goes back to the ~250 range, which I expect it to do by July once all the hard chinese shorts are replaced by growing liquidity, I'll roi in 5 months considering there really aren't a lot of new offerings out there in the mining world so difficulty isn't going to spike. Granted, I think the s4+ is way overpriced for its hashing ability with next gen stuff coming q1 of next year. |
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