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Evening all, but specifically MrTeal. I've got a little problem with a chili and was hoping you (or anyone in this thread) had an idea.
I recently purchased a Chili that would mine at first but would eventually get sick and finally go dead (as reported by bfgminer). I did have to flash the miner when I first received it but that didnt help. This morning after it died again I powered it down, waited 30 seconds, powered it back up but now Windows wont see the device and LED's 5-8 are all stuck on. I've moved the miner to another machine and it does the same thing.
In reading this thread I found that MrTeal mentioned something to another user about shorting the two middle pins on the "prog" connector so I tried that. When I do that the LED's go out and windows see the com port device. When I remove the jumper windows no longer sees it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for your time.
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So George, you probably dont know when GB6 is going to and in your lap do ya?
Thanks!
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Bounty for someone making up a new CPU miner with actual hashrate and hell why not an Win GUI that would regroup all open cpuminer instances and where you could manage them from the GUI. let's dream a bit :p
^^^^^^^ This! |
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pics are not showing up.  EDIT: Uh... yeah they are. Never mind. |
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All is Ok. They migrate to a new website (with https) that`s why the warning pops up i think.
LOL! Between the time I opened this thread and got around to posting my message 6-8 replies posted explaining what was going on! DOH! I do feel better knowing that they were not hacked though. |
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well, you know what litigious bastards we are over here  Hey, thats slander! You'll hear from my laywer  Yeah, like I have one of those. LOL! So where are you at Wolfey? I may partake on a few modded miners... |
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Yeah.... still down. Would like to know whats going on.
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Any way to get bfgminer to display more then just 15 GS units? I have 28 hooked up but can't see what they are all doing. Windows BTW.
right click on the bfg window menu bar and go to properties. Go to layout, change the height to 40 or 50, hit apply/ok restart bfgminer. You can also arrow down in the window to make it scroll. |
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Hi Wolfey, I'm interested in attempting this mod, but have no experience with soldering on boards. Can you post a pic of you mods and would you mind providing a near-idiot-proof guide with the equipment and steps required to make the change. Obviously with the usual caveat of no guarantees, warranties, etc. Thanks! I'd like to see pics anyway. FYI, the solder pads on this board are pretty small. Your usual suspect soldering iron isnt really going to cut it. |
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They run sufficiently warm enough now that I put the fan back on them but am running them off the 5V USB with good results.
Can you explain where you took the 5V from? I mean, where did you attach the red cable on the PCB? One pin on the USB connector will be supplied +5VDC from either the hub or the computer that your grid is plugged into. Thats what he's talking about. Not sure which pin, probably pin 1 or pin 4. |
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Hey, maybe you can help me set up cgminer or bfgminer for my pods.
I'm considering doing it just so I can see real time client side hash rates.
To bad they didn't build it into cpuminer. Sort of weird it's not standard.
Wolfey2014
I'd be happy to help. Do you have dropbox? setup a shared folder for me and I'll dump bfg and cg in there. FWIW, I'm finding bfgminer easier to use. With cgminer you have to start it with the grids UNPLUGGED, then plug them in and let it find them. You also have to change the driver from whatever's factory to WinUSB so if you want to go back to cpuminer you have to delete the thing and re-install it. pm me for my email address if you want to setup dropbox. You can also download the two programs but I'm too lazy to look up the links right now. Oh wait.... I think you have to use cgminer with the volt modded grids. Theres a line in the config file (or bat file) that you have to change from voltage=0 to voltage=1 or something like that. |
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I'm very pleased with their stable performance at 1000MHz! Running it solo, I'm seeing nearly 600KH's out of it at the pool. NICE! So, what's next? How do we squeeze more performance out of them? Any ideas? I'm game! Peace! Wolfey2014 Dayum! Your getting 600k out of ONE of them? Real nice! |
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Yo GF! I didn't want to wait, eh? I waited. Yep, have 2 of them fully modded as of this afternoon. Decided to mod the 2nd one after I got back from a job and all my chores were done. I've had rock steady performance with a way less resets/restarts over the last couple weeks since tweaking things up. Still dealing with resets every 24 or so hours though but no where near as much as before and, certainly not as often as you evidently have to reset yours. I have been using cpuminer Scrypt only version for weeks now. Works perfectly. Especially for those who have a few or up to 20 GS units. Batch files can do all the tasks required including resetting and re-staring them. It's probably not your GS5's causing the fuss. It could be port settings, it could be bfgminer. I read lots of complaints about it all the time. It's a tweaker's / debugger's dream program though, I guess . I'm very pleased with the performance of the 2 miners I've modded so far. Rock steady performance. Virtually ZERO HW errors. In fact, I haven't seen any in hours. Certainly no more than running them at 850 or even 600MHz. That's a good thing! Can I do anything to help you figure out whats going on and get your miners stably producing some income? Fret not. Ayething go be aueight!  Wolfey2014 I've isolated the 4 that are giving me crap (well I know for sure where one is). I too have been using cpuminer since I got these things but I noticed that some of them were saying "yay" more and had higher accepts within cpuminers command box. Thats when I started using cgminer and bfgminer to see if I could nail down the bad grids. I thought that maybe putting 10 on three different computers was going to solve my problems but it didnt. Just logged into the host PC's and the 4 that I noted as acting up this afternoon were in fact claimed "dead" by bfg. For what its worth zoomhash is going to replace them, I just have to ship the bad ones back to them. What sized iron are you guys using to solder those bridges? Those are pretty small solder pads. |
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Actually, the term you're looking for is 'over-volted' not overclocked,,, which they are in fact. 850MHz is 250MHz over the stock - default setting of 600MHz. One of mine is now overvolted and further overclocked to 900MHz...running rock solid so far. 10 PM tonight will be its first successful 24 hour zero errors benchmark pass! Keep your fingers crossed folks! Look ma! No fan! Wolfey2014 Guess you didnt want to wait anymore and decided to OV some grids huh wolfey? Glad to see that its working out. Also glad I didnt do diddly to my grids as I've got 4-6 of them that keep crashing and going dead in bfgminer. Stupid things. |
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nevermind... figured out how to bring up the serial numbers in bfgminer (m to go to device manager) and labeled them one at a time as I connected them.
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I've got 30 grids and 6 that are acting up. Without putting some on a bunch of different computers all over the place is there a way to identify them in windows/bfgminer/cgminer? I think cgminer shows their serial numbers but the serial number isnt on the outside of the things anywhere.
Ideas?
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I ordered a 10 pack a few weeks ago and you forgot my controller!!! They included the power cord for the controller but no controller! I have to use my gaming laptop to run my miners now. I'm pretty pissed. not to mention the length of the power cords is only about 7 inchs.... 7 inchs. Definitely not what is pictured/advertized. Please send me a controller ASAP. thank you.
You might be better off without the controller... The two I have tried suck stupid eggs. I just got a RasPi and plan on trying that but I'm not holding my breath. |
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A soldering gun probably wont work here. Your going to need a pretty fine pencil tip and a steady hand.
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