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how many laptops do you have in total?
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thanks, Im sure we aren't the only ones experiencing this issue. If you were ale to upgrade mutiminer and get good results, then i doubt it would be "trivial"  keep me in the loop on your findings. |
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 looks like it says compac in there somewhere..hmmm? |
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Hi everyone
Got my stickminer form bitshopper.de (easy to order from and quick tracked delivery) and have been playing with Multiminer ever since, as I could not get old/GekkoScience cgminer or bfgminer to even find the stickminer.
My config:
- i3 Ivybridge / 8GBRAM / SSD
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Multiminer 4.0.4 (latest available on GitHub), incl. bfgminer 4.9.0
- Zadig USB driver removed, so that MultiMiner could find the stickminer on the COM port
Got hashing quickly, but impossible to get the hashing above 4GH/s, although I have:
- Turned the voltage up as per post #1,
- Been using a brand new Y-cable connecting 2 USB 2.0 ports to the stickminer,
- Added --set compac:clock=x0d83 (to boost the clock rate to 175MHz) in the SHA 256 argument of the Advance Miner setting (I even tried --set compac:clock=x0d83 in the Pool arguments of the pool config!),
- Stopped mining, unplugged stickminer, re-plugged stickminer, re-started mining between config changes.
But no luck so far in getting over 4GH/s on the Home dashboard or in the API monitor...
Any anybody been able to achieve a better rate (no one so far, looking at previous posts)?
If yes, how?
I've had the exact same issue. Nothing worked for me except multiminer and had 5 sticks maxing out at 3.5-3.8 Gh/s each. I don't feel as crazy now that someone else has the same issue. If you figure it out. Please let me know. Thanks! |
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You mean a picture like the one in the first post ?   No that exactly NOT the picture I am looking for. Do you think I might be blind and missed that lol I am looking for a detailed pic with locations of the potentiometer with each range more or less. Like 90 degrees right is "X" value 90 degrees left is "X" value and so on. Something like that would be very useful while attempting to narrow in on a specific voltage range. Thanks! As you've been told above (and as i've done): Trial and error. Blue line is 0.55V 359degres is 0.8V So that's a range of 0.25V for 360degres 45degres gives you 0.075V Etc etc Ok i guess the simplest way to explain it to any newer people is that direct north is 0.55V an dialing to the right will increase voltage to the max of 0.8V until almost back to where you started, and everything in between is a range increasing, and that red line represents a point almost at a full return to 359 degress for a 0.75V reading. That wasn't so difficult to explain simply...was it? Oh and since the potemtiometer doesn't have any full stops, and can spin around "as mentioned before" how would you tell without any measuring tools what your current voltage is? Or it doesn't matter? just use the current location of the dial no matter how many times it spins around....right? thanks! |
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Well, you know one corner is 800mV and one corner is 550mV and one corner is about 640mV because you've been told all this either directly or with pictures. Doing the math, that puts the other corner at about 710mV. Doing more math will give you more approximate setpoints. The best resolution will be had by measuring the test pads with a voltmeter, which is why those test pads exist.
Of course you could always, instead of picking a voltage and then, I don't know, determining a working frequency for that voltage? You could pick a frequency or hashrate you want to achieve and then dial in the voltage by watching how well the stick works. If you want to pick a power use range, you could look at the very detailed graphs TheRealSteve put up for power use in the review thread, pick a frequency and dial in the voltage until it works.
So, three different things you can do that don't require someone else to draw you a picture, and based entirely off finding and using information already given.
I see so in that original pic, the top is 800mV and direct south is 550mV? The blue lines mean top and bottom opposites? and the red line in the top left corner is 710mV? please confirm. thanks! |
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I'm gonna go ahead and advise the same thing I advised last week, which is the quote from the first post which states that if you have trouble the first thing you should try is turning up the voltage. The flat part in the upper right corner still puts it at pretty much dead bottom voltage. If it's one of my sticks, it left here set for about 640mV (flat in the bottom right corner) and was tested to work without error at 200MHz/11GH. So what you do is, you turn the screw up a bit and fire it up and see if it works better. If not, turn it up a bit more and repeat. Just like the advice in the first post. I specifically sent you to read through this thread for solutions to your problem since a lot of what you need is probably in the first post. Additionally, None of my sticks are tested to work on anything USB3, and I don't know anyone else's opinions but I've never recommended their use on a USB3 hub either, reason being they're not USB3 devices and were never tested for compatibility.
Thanks, I will try to adjust the settings more on the physical USB. It would be great if someone can post a picture of where the actual voltage settings would range on the USB Miner from low end to max, like "this position is "x" voltage". I think that would be extremely helpful for some. thanks! Easiest way would be to use 1 of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J3JSEG6?keywords=drok%20usb&qid=1447593939&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1However you can also just start cgminer with no sticks plugged in hub, plug 1 stick in, then turn the pot (in small increments) till it starts mining. Then adjust it some more to get rid of HW errors. Start on the end that will leave the pot in the open until the next stick is plugged in. Plug the next stick in and adjust it, repeat, until you get all sticks plugged in and running. Then again, I just looked at some of the 1 star reviews of the Anker 3.0 hub (that you linked to in a previous post) and I wouldn't buy one. More than a few die after a few months, some will only get 2 or 3 ports working, some will constantly drop connections, some over heat, and some only get 2.0 speed or lower (even if everything is 3.0). Even seen some review's of another model of Anker 3.0 hub, that some programs would not run, if the hub was plugged in before opening the program (had to open the program and then plug the hub in). So seem's that the Anker 3.0 hub's are not as good as the 2.0 hub's were in the past. Thanks for looking up all the 1 star reviews they are very helpful in buying any product. Mostly from angry people who have issues. I have never had an issue with my hub and have used it just fine with 9 USB miners maxed out. But thanks for the suggestion. |
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You mean a picture like the one in the first post ? No that exactly NOT the picture I am looking for. Do you think I might be blind and missed that lol I am looking for a detailed pic with locations of the potentiometer with each range more or less. Like 90 degrees right is "X" value 90 degrees left is "X" value and so on. Something like that would be very useful while attempting to narrow in on a specific voltage range. Thanks! |
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I'm gonna go ahead and advise the same thing I advised last week, which is the quote from the first post which states that if you have trouble the first thing you should try is turning up the voltage. The flat part in the upper right corner still puts it at pretty much dead bottom voltage. If it's one of my sticks, it left here set for about 640mV (flat in the bottom right corner) and was tested to work without error at 200MHz/11GH. So what you do is, you turn the screw up a bit and fire it up and see if it works better. If not, turn it up a bit more and repeat. Just like the advice in the first post. I specifically sent you to read through this thread for solutions to your problem since a lot of what you need is probably in the first post. Additionally, None of my sticks are tested to work on anything USB3, and I don't know anyone else's opinions but I've never recommended their use on a USB3 hub either, reason being they're not USB3 devices and were never tested for compatibility.
Thanks, I will try to adjust the settings more on the physical USB. It would be great if someone can post a picture of where the actual voltage settings would range on the USB Miner from low end to max, like "this position is "x" voltage". I think that would be extremely helpful for some. thanks! |
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Still have nice looking green machines not working at all for me. Tried cgminer, bfgminer,and more, ---- usb 3.0 Anker 10 port hub. Used multiminer software and was able to run all 5 in that hub but only at 3.5GH/s each or so. It looked as if it used an older version of bfgminer in that program I have each "flat" part of the potentiometer set at top right corner on all of them. Ive tried 50 configs for bat files, and once saw all 5 running at over 8GH/s each for about 10 seconds in bfgminer ...before all the comms errors, or in cgminer the "L" type errors. People are saying its my hardware, but I have run successfully 9 usb miner sticks in there plenty of times and most recently the bitmain U2 usb miners....so? i cant figure it out. Maybe ill try again soon.  |
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I can vouch for mindtrip, he is legit |
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I love this bot software !
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Yes, that is correct...seems like this would be a good time to get a real FULL hashing S7 |
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Put that USB fan on a different power source, somewhere other than your hub. Just to make sure that its not feeding back some weird signals to the hub.
I can only definitely agree with that ! those cheap USB fan are dangerous... one of them just BSOD my computer whenever it's close ! that usb fan is only using very little power and it is in a dedicated "charging" port not any of the data ports, I have run this setup with many other usb miners in the past with zero issues, i will try sidehacks advice to start with turning the flat part of the port to the top right corner on each. thanks! |
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Also when attempting to use bfgminer 5.3.0:  with a config of: bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333 -u xxx.1 -p x -S antminer:all --set antminer:voltage=x800 --set antminer:clock=x0b83 --set antminer:timing=0.022421 also tried: bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333 -u xxx.1 -p x -S antminer:all --set antminer:voltage=x800 --set compac:clock=x0b83 --set antminer:timing=0.022421 also tried: bfgminer --set compac:clock=150 --scan noauto -o stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333/ -u xxx.1 -p x -S antminer:\\.\COM26 -d antminer@\\.\COM26 -S antminer:\\.\COM27 -d antminer@\\.\COM27 -S antminer:\\.\COM28 -d antminer@\\.\COM28 -S antminer:\\.\COM29 -d antminer@\\.\COM29 -S antminer:\\.\COM30 -d antminer@\\.\COM30 --api-listen --api-port 4028 --api-allow W:127.0.0.1, -T -q --log 5 no luck on any of those configs....same comms error....so the problem is not my hardware, as it DOES work in Multiminer on an "old version?" of bfgminer..but not any of the current ones....Very Strange. Plus they all hash much faster in the cli interface than in multiminer. thanks! edit: updated screenshot after about 10 minutes..some accepts but many comms errors still:  |
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The curious thing to me is both low hashrate and zero errors. That condition really shouldn't exist. What frequency are you running at, and what core voltage? Does Multiminer enumerate them as U3? As far as I know, no attempt has been made to get Compac support in Multiminer. Is that one BFG based?
Have you run them in any kind of USB2 hub, or just the USB3?
I have all the compacs with the flat part of the Potentiometer pointed straight up - north This version of multiminer seems to be running a version of bfgminer which i do not know. I have only run them in this usb3 hub as it seems to have enough power to run them all. I have tried starting with 1 of course. same results in multiminer with the hashrate, and zero errors on poolside. strange? Personally id rather have them run in a cli based version of cgminer asIi like to see it that way, but am getting all sorts of errors when i try that. very similar to the: Compac 0: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset Compac 0 attempted reset got err (0) LIB_USBSUCCESS thanks! |
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The curious thing to me is both low hashrate and zero errors. That condition really shouldn't exist. What frequency are you running at, and what core voltage? Does Multiminer enumerate them as U3? As far as I know, no attempt has been made to get Compac support in Multiminer. Is that one BFG based?
Have you run them in any kind of USB2 hub, or just the USB3?
Mutiminer screenshot: Running in Anker USB 3.0 HUB Screenshot:  Multiminer settings screenshot:  Some version of bfgminer running in multiminier screenshot:  |
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Your screenshot shows them working at 8 Gh/s in BFGMiner, despite the errors.
If there's buggy software, it would need to be your OS, since that's where the error is coming from.
But seeing as Windows works fine for plenty of other miners with these same devices, the only difference is your USB hub or motherboard...
I guess its easiest to blame it on the hardware Have you tried cgminer 4.9.2? Its been running my sticks flawlessly for nearly a week now on Win 7 32 bit. Do you mind sharing your bat file? I also had to copy over that zlib1.dll file from an old version of cgminer, strange how its not in the release and wont run without it? Any help at this point would be appreciated. I was able to get all 5 USB sticks to run in the same Anker hub running MultiMiner-4.0.4 but couldn't get them to get over 3.5 GH/s each, maybe I'm not adding in the correct values in that interface which I am not very familiar with. But to see them all running , even slow in there all at once , AND getting all accepted shares and 0 HW errors poolside, makes me wonder why I cant get it to run on the custom cgminer build , or the bfgminer fail. thanks! |
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Your screenshot shows them working at 8 Gh/s in BFGMiner, despite the errors.
If there's buggy software, it would need to be your OS, since that's where the error is coming from.
But seeing as Windows works fine for plenty of other miners with these same devices, the only difference is your USB hub or motherboard...
I guess its easiest to blame it on the hardware |
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weird how his response it ust be my hub etc.
I am testing running multiminer and all 5 are running but at slow rate of 3-4GH/s each..soooooo go figure?
not sure how to rectify that..any ideas? I would like the cgminer version to work actually.
thanks!
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