Can we use this on original Gridseed controllers?? I mean WIIBOX ??
Flashing will work on Wiibox controller, they essentially have the same chipset. I will have to give this a try. Can you post a Litecoin donation address? |
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Can we use this on original Gridseed controllers?? I mean WIIBOX ??
I am pretty sure it is a different hardware setup and it will not work with this firmware. I still like the original wiibox controllers (up to 2.1.2). You just need to overclock them to 850. They can still dual mine BTC at roughly 100gh SHA and 3000-3100kh scrypt per 10 miners. |
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I keep getting "failed to unpack" messages on every single bin I try to upload to the controllers...both of them. I'm REALLY aggravated at this point, because the version of the firmware I'm using, I can't even get my miners to submit shares on half the pools I use, seems like. Serves me right for not waiting to see if it was stable before flashing it.
If you have the first version of a V3, try a LTC pool. I have one on V3c and one on V3. The V3c is running better but both work fine at 850. Don't try to adjust individual miners with the first version of V3, it starts spewing stale shares and rejects. Do a hard reset and it should work fine on a straight LTC pool at 512 dif. |
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I skimmed through the recent discussion and did not see an update from Blackarrow. Can someone re-post the latest update from Blackarrow? I am hoping the April/May shipping is still a possibility (even if remote).
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Are you getting a lot of stale shares? What freq and pool are you using? I am using 22 and 25 for each TP-link on version B at 850. They run great for a few hours and then start spewing 30% stale shares on wafflepool. im using 850 and i have 0.2% rejects, so i guess im cool  im not doing multi pools, im not a fan of them, people dont realise they are bull sh*t, its better to stick to a coin. Yeah, I'm trying liteguardian right now and controller seems to place nice with it. |
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Hi pistachio, thanks for the reply. I see in your sig that your support gawminer, I actually got this from GAW just to test out before getting the bigger miners. But this experience is very frustrating very lately. I spent my time troubleshooting and babysitting this rather than running it. Comparing it to my ants, I spent less time, my ants are up and running in less than an hour with full hashing capability.
This is true. I do miss the simplicity of ants. I sold all of my ants to buy these Gridseed miners and they have been a constant headache. It looks like a TP-link 703N with the new lightningASIC firmware might solve your problems for $25-$35. I ordered one of these to see how it does compared to the stock LightningASIC controllers. I will post results later this week. This is the one I ordered, http://www.ebay.com/itm/221325209638?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649. |
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My original post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=482352.msg6077816#msg6077816I have tried CPUminer, which works for a few minutes, after which, it won't accept shares. I left it running last night and checked it this morning. The graph at givemecoins.com which gives a minute/hour activity of the miner shows that I was accepting shares for 5min, and then it flat out bottom and never picks up anymore after the next 5Hrs. The next 3hrs now after waking up, I have also tried using different USB2/3 ports, and have tried using my beefiest PC using cpuminer (I used my Core i5 laptop and Core i7 desktop) with similar results: 67Kh on BFGminer consistently, cgminer crash time and again (on all 3 PCs with Zadig WinUSB driver), have tried reassigning COM port and playing with baud rates. I am starting to think I got a lemon seed and this is very frustrating. Try switching out your USB cables and maybe try a straight litecoin pool. The following pool seems to be stable right now https://www.liteguardian.com. The payout is about the same as profit based pools. |
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So how do I update from the RC10 to RC10c firmware? I tried by uploading the RC10c directly, and by uploading the V2 bin first, but I get the 'Firmware with name LAxxxRCc.bin not found' message all the time.
Try now, it should work. Now I'm getting "Failed to unpack firmware" when I do the RC10c, and "MD5 differs" when I do the V2? One controller worked and updated to C. The other is failing to unpack as well. I tried re-downing file too. I ordered a new TPlink with 64MB RAM, so I can just use one controller. Will charts work with 50 miners on a 703N TPlink? |
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Are you getting a lot of stale shares? What freq and pool are you using? I am using 22 and 25 for each TP-link on version B at 850. They run great for a few hours and then start spewing 30% stale shares on wafflepool. |
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Received my second order a day early.
Any kind of a trade-in program in the works for the 5 chip miners towards buying blades? I like the space savings of the new blades.
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It looks like 20 miners with the new firmware are running better than 22 miners on bfgminer at the same frequency.  Many thanks to sandor111 for all of his hard work on this. |
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I still have the same problem with ACM1 and ACM2 not working on the updated firmware.... Can I flash back to V1 safely?
I have the same issue with my updated from V2 (with V1 image) controller. 2 and 3 always report 0. Have you tried resetting it with a paperclip? I had some luck when one of my controllers was stuck on a white screen. |
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That was really quick! I will give this a try right away. thanks, |
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Maybe a hard reset for the miners and TP-link would help. I was getting a similar problem when it would restart every 5 minutes. It went away when I backed off to 850 from 887. You can also try changing the interval for the 'Restart dead miner' setting. |
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After using two controllers for a day with 42 miners, I have concluded that the V3 firmware preforms worse than a raspberry pi with cgminer/bfgminer or a wiibox controller with 2.1.0 firmware OCed to 850. It is convenient to have up to 40 miners on one TP-link, but the high number of stale shares is totally unacceptable. I am going back to five wiibox controllers that can still dual mine and produce a more stable hashrate.
Edit: I have two LightningASIC controllers updated to the V3 firmware that I would happily part with if anyone needs one. Just pm me a fair price and I can ship it out. Escrow is fine of course.
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ok, got to a windows machine, on chrome... Now when i upload upgrade ver1 it says "md5 error"
Flashed one of them fine, just this one giving my problems
I had the same problem. you need to delete the upgrade file and redownload it. It can only be used once and then does not work. |
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The second and third miner (ACM1 and ACM2) never generate any shares. I moved them (and their corresponding USB cables) so they became miners 9 and 10 and they worked fine there... however now the ones that did work previously in spots 9 and 10 are now listed as the second and third miners and do not generate any shares. I tried a new usb hub, but still whatever miners become 2nd and 3rd in the list do not work. So whatever miners become logically 2nd and 3rd (ACM1 and ACM2) do not work... they all work in other spots and none work if they are ACM1 or ACM2  I did have a space in the individual frequency settings (8D8A52A45551= 850 instead of 8D8A52A45551=850) and that caused the miner not to start... but after I found that problem and restarted these have not worked... just thought I would mention it... dont know if its related or not. In the picture below, I have moved 8D8635AF4849 to ACM1 and 8D8A52A4551 to ACM2 and they have not generated any shares... if I move them to any other spot they work fine, but then whatever ones logically become ACM1/ACM2 do not work.  images hostingHave you tried invdividually lowing the speeds of each of those miners to 825 or 800 to see if that fixes it? Or, even 750? I found lowering the speed slightly can get problematic miners to kick in quicker. |
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