I'm hopeless at this, aren't I?  The short and not very polite answer is, pretty much. But the stick is meant as a learning tool; you're now being forced to learn some new things. Please note a couple posts up where it's said: The tar.bz file is for building it yourself (on raspi usually). You would need the zip file on the first page of the thread. Then do as sidehack has said and copy the zlib.dll file from the standard cgminer (in the mining software section of the forum). Copy that over to the gekko version, run zadig to change the drivers on the cp2102 uart controller to winusb, then run the bat file.
This will solve about half your problems. The other half are the "./" at the start of your command line in the batch file - that's a linux-specific thing (telling the command prompt to look for the program in the current folder instead of searching system-default paths) and isn't necessary for Windows. |
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Copy the zlib dll from a stock Windows cgminer folder into the cgminer-gekko folder and try again. Assuming you've installed the libusb driver for the stick as well (probably via Zadig)?
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From the first post: =========
=How to Run=
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GekkoScience cgminer:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150
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=Voltage Adjustment=
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In order to get the best performance out of your stickminer, you'll want to adjust voltage. The compac does not support software voltage adjustment, it is actually a hardware setting. Voltage is set by a small potentiometer (you'll see a screw which can be turned) right next to the USB jack. Turning the screw clockwise increases voltage; counter-clockwise decreases it.
There is no voltage setting in the command line. There is a frequency setting. |
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With very few exceptions, if you have a question that can't be answered by information in the first post, either you're not reading carefully enough, not understanding what you're reading, or the hardware itself is busted.
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I really didn't like when they switched to the 135-chip version of S7 for exactly those reasons. However, the early builds aren't volt-hackable without external adjustable power supplies. Variable bucked string beats unregulated string any day - not necessarily in overall efficiency or total parts cost, but being able to drop core voltages extends the viable life quite a bit.
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I figured him for a troll and/or jackass and have him ignored as well.
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I've got probably 40 bare chassis around the shop as well for mostly the same reason. Gimme a few months and hopefully I'll have something good for you.
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S1 and S5 might be reusable if someone (cough) makes a new hashboard to fit on that chassis.
S7 can be undervolted to around 4TH/950W and get a bit more life out of it.
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I haven't looked over schematics (not downloading on this browser, I'll check it at the shop), but on that breakout image I don't see any provision for regulation; couple that with the need to be "stringable" and I assume the design is fixed core voltage? In which case the designer needs to be reminded that home users don't really appreciate planned obsolescence, therefore "no thank you".
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Sure, if there's dev money and a guaranteed market. I don't want to say it's not a good idea, but you're also doubling the cost of something that's already a race to the bottom.
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Maybe everything's been said that needs to be?
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Right, all the miners were shipped out yesterday afternoon. I forgot to send out tracking numbers but I can do that today.
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Physics disagrees with you, sir.
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you guys are the last "at home" bitcoin miners
No offense, but I sincerely hope that's not the case. Or at least not for much longer. |
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How exactly do AC source limits cause a problem at the DC load? Seems more likely inadequate AC wall power sent to the PSU would cause an issue with the PSU, either in drawing too much current from mains to supply the DC load requirement or simply turning off.
Also, I think his complaint is as much "Bitmain will deny warranty for anything they build which burns down your house due to poor manufacturing" as much as "Bitmain manufactures things that will burn down your house". Accidents happen and sometimes electronics fail, but that's kinda exactly what warranties are for.
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I'd bet we don't see the price below $1000 before September.
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If there is any mining at all after the halving, the S9 will be the most profitable machine in terms of revenue minus operating cost. Whether that accrued profit will ever exceed initial cost is a different question.
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Oh right, I keep forgetting that most people don't work on major holidays.
Also, some of the already-proven-stable miners dropped a board this morning, I think because the shop cooled off unexpectedly (lots of rain). I remember there being talk about the stock S7 having a "sweet spot" for temperature, below which they weren't stable, so I'm blaming it on that. And then turning the fans down manually.
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And you were using cgminer-gekko, not stock cgminer? And also that your hub's power brick is capable of providing at least 3A of 5V without dropping the voltage?
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raiding - I'm assuming that you've already read the first post of this support thread, and tried increasing the core voltage on the sticks when you attempted higher frequencies?
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