Yep, exactly what I am seeing on ETH. 

DASH confirmed and unconfirmed totals seemed like they weren't changing for a long time but they finally just did change so maybe DASH is ok.

Looks like DASH and ETH dashboards are not updating.

Website seems to be working much better.  Thanks for fixing.

No I didn't say that at all.  I have no idea if they are legitimate or not.  But right on the listing for DR3 it says "Shipping starts on 27th March."  So I would interpret that to mean they do not have them but they will sell you one based on their assumption (or knowledge) that they can get them from PinIdea at the end of March.

I have a person at PinIdea who responds to my emails, they clearly do not speak English so there is a language  barrier.  I had originally emailed their support email and this person responded and since then I have emailed them direct a few times and they always respond.  I asked when the DR3 would be back and they said 3 weeks.  I waited 2 weeks and asked if it was still on track to be back in a week and they said it would be 2 more weeks.  That was just a couple days ago on that second response about 2 weeks.  So that places it about mid-March. Eastshore says I think the 27th or something like that which is late March.  They may have their own contact at PinIdea.  Either way it sounds like more miners should be coming out towards the end of this month.  They may hit that target or it may get pushed back some more.  That seems not unusual for these things.  Keep an eye on it and I think we will see some more available soonish.

Just for the record, the DR3 really does not average 600.  It averages 550-560.  I have 3 of them and I have examined their hashrate across multiple pools and coins and 550-560 is the accurate average.

That depends.  You can check the wires to see how hot they are getting as you run.  If they are getting really hot then you are pulling too much power and need to separate them.  It is a little subjective, I mean what does "really hot" mean?  But consider that you really don't want to be responsible for burning the place down and maybe killing some neighbors so use good judgment.  It isn't unusual for the wires to be warm but if you think they seem more than warm then separate them.

I am surprised by this though, my experience with EVGA is that the high end PSU's are rock solid.  But as you describe it, it sounds like without a doubt the PSU has failed and needs to be replaced, just as others have said.

Yes, error 524 "a timeout occurred" for me as well.

I am seeing this more and more.  Not just these pools, I am mining on I think about 6 or 8 pools including the multiport for ethash algo.

They all either work or they all fail at the same time.  So in other words if one is doing this, they all do it.  Then if one loads, they all will load.

Hmmm    Same thing the DASH pool says:

Is there an ETA on fix for issues with DASH pool?

What the guy said in the post above this one pretty well answers that.  When I purchased it BTC was under $1000.  Baikal is expensive.  Yes Baikal does do the other algos but ROI on this unit is like 4-6 months which is way better than you can get for BTC miners these days.  Too bad they sold out, I wanted more.

Just FYI for anyone who gets one, there seems to be a bug with the DNS server setting where it appears not to update the DNS setting when you change from one static IP to another.  So for example when it arrives and has IP 192.168.1.200 if you just change the IP, gateway, and DNS and keep it on static it seems like it doesn't really change the DNS because with mine it can't resolve pools when I do this if I move to another network.  If you change it to DHCP, find it on the network, then change it back to static it seems to work ok after that.

Why?  I don't understand.

I have a jalapeno.  I have a, what did they call it, mini-single maybe (the BFL one that was larger than a jala but not the biggest one).  I also have some block erupter cubes from asicminer in case you are looking for those for your museum.  They all worked last time I used them which was not recently.  

I came here to ask about the same thing.  Nothing has been added to my confirmed balance for many hours.  Also, how is it that multiple blocks are awaiting the same number of confirmations, or that older blocks need more confirmations than newer ones?

I don't think you realize that the person who just told you to email them is the person who operates the place.  You should send the email.

The web interface has some quirks (and one bug) that kind of tripped me up on the setup.

When you type the user name and password on the login page, the enter key on your keyboard won't log you in, you have to click the button on the page.  The pages will auto-refresh every minute indefinitely but if you click between pages you will be logged out after about 2 minutes.  So basically, after 2 minutes no matter what you click on, you will be logged out, but if you just leave any of the pages open it will auto-update that page every minute forever.



I circled a of couple things in green above.  

First, the Internet Status never changes from "Disconnect".  This seems to be a bug although I am not sure what it is trying to do to determine that. I tried both static and dynamic IP for the miner and tried different DNS servers.  It may be a DNS resolution issue where it just can't resolve something it is looking for but if that is the case google DNS can't resolve it either.  This in combination with some other early configurations I made had me thinking the thing was broken initially.

Second, the 30 second hashrate (and possibly the 5 minute hashrate) seems to be a calculated value.  It may also be that the hashrate graph is based on calculated values.  Initially I had just given the miner a more or less random difficulty through use of the password on the pool I was using.  I set the difficulty to 1000 which is apparently astronomically high for x11 so my 30 second hashrate was always zero.  I didn't wait a full 5 minutes to see if that one changed but basically the high difficulty combined with the Internet Status made me think the miner wasn't working at all because it never reported any hashrate.  You can see in my screen shot I am on miningpoolhub and the vardiff sometimes gives me a difficulty high enough that I don't send a share within 30 seconds and when that happens the 30 second hashrate as reported in the web interface will show 0.0.  Watching this for a bit is what had me conclude it is a calculated value because sometimes it will show something like 2000 also.  I am used to asic miners that show the actual number of hashes being done by the hashing engine rather than calculating a value based on submitted shares so this is a bit weird.  

As I say, it seems possible that the 5 minute hashrate and the graphs are similarly based on calculated values too.  The graph has a lot of variance, sometimes going as high as 1000.  I have circled the line for 600 which is what the miner is advertised at but you can see that some of the graph lines are under 400 as well.  It seems to average about 540ish on MPH.  It averaged 550ish on nicehash.  Not terrible but not exactly 600.  There is a slider for chip freq and it says the default is 420 but was set to 470 when the miner arrived.  So it was already OC'd to the max setting before they shipped it.  I haven't tried lowering this at all.  The temps are not high at all in comparison with other electronics (GPU's, CPU's, other ASIC's) and the temp of the air at the exhaust end is just mildly warm and not hot either.  I am curious however if the OC is reducing hashrate at all since sometimes I have seen that on antminers where you get a benefit from OC up to a point and then it starts going down as you go higher still so I will probably lower this and see what it does.



It appears I have one bad chip.  The vast majority of invalids come from that one chip.  If the difficulty is lower, as it is on nicehash, then there are even more HW failures and that chip will actually show in red.  With the higher diff on MPH it seems to behave better.  As you can see though it still gives more good shares than bad.

I know wlefever asked for pictures but I think it is unnecessary since the pictures on the website already show it: https://shop.pinidea.io/index.php/product/asic-x11-miner-dr3/

One thing to note is that the ethernet port is pretty close to the casing so a shielded cable doesn't really fit.  I might have been able to force it but I have more cables so I just used one with the cheaper end.  There is a DR2 setup tutorial here: https://www.eastshore.xyz/tutorial-x11-asic-miner-pinidea-dr2-450mh-335w-dash-miner/

The DR3 is almost exactly the same.  One difference though is that the power connectors are on the top (which you can see in pics from the pinidea.io website) which looks like a good change.  

It's pretty heavy for the size.  It is shorter than an antminer S9 but I think it might be slightly heavier.  The fans are loud but the air exhaust is not really that hot, especially compared to other asic miners I have.  I haven't turned the fans down at all though since I don't care.  I have an environment where I can run them loud but there is a fan setting in the web interface.  It is just a drop down with settings labelled LV1, LV2, and LV3.  It arrived set to LV3 so I have left it that way.

I am using a 750W PSU but I will probably try and use a smaller wattage unit tomorrow if I can find one that is around 500W.  I am not sure if I have one or not, I know I have a bunch lower than that but I would like to see if it runs the same on a smaller PSU.  I do not have a wattage meter so I can't check what it is using.

The end with the ethernet connector is actually what I would call the back since that is the air exhaust end.  That seems backwards compared to most miners I have owned before but not a big deal at all.

The web interface for the DR3 looks identical to the screen shots of the DR2 in the setup tutorial linked above.  I will make a post with some more details about that.

I got the miner.  It has some miner issues and quirks but it is hashing.  I am not sure if miningpoolhub vardiff is causing a problem or not but the hashrate seems to fluctuate a lot.  It hits the 600 MH/s it was sold as but it also drops to like 100 or 200.  It has averaged about 450 for the last half hour.  I ran it on NH for a bit too and it seemed more stable but I kind of wanted to mine DASH.  I'll play with it for a couple days and then give some more impressions in the thread.

I think it was 8 days between the day I ordered and the day they printed the label and sent the shipping notification. 

Maybe this was covered elsewhere in the thread but I got here late.  At any rate the default KMS key is set automatically on volume license windows media.  So basically Phil in the first post the reason you are seeing evidence for a KMS key is because it had been installed with volume license media. 

When you buy enterprise licenses from microsoft you get two types of keys, MAK (multiple access keys) and KMS (key management system).  The MAK key is similar to the one most people are used to, you enter it in the OS when you first boot it and it activates online with Microsoft.  In the case of volume license media you just get to use the same key many times but the process is exactly the same as when you activate a home version.  You enter the key and it activates online (or you can go through the activate by phone thing).

The KMS keys allow you to setup an activation server on your network that automatically activates certain versions of Windows (or other MS software) without the clients having to connect to the internet.  If you setup a KMS server on your network, all you have to do is install the client computer from the volume license media and it will get the default KMS key and try to find an activation server on the local network to activate.  So basically KMS is easier because you don't have to enter a key on the client computer when you install.  You just install from volume license media, boot, and it finds a local activation server and activates without any intervention.  So if it is installed with volume license media it is already setup to try and use KMS activation. 

Those pirate things you posted screen shots of are basically online versions of the KMS activation server.  What those pirate software guys aren't telling you is that KMS activated software has to reconnect with the activation server on a regular basis (I think once every 6 months) or it deactivates.  As long as the pirates have that activation server online and accessible, then a pirate copy you activated from there will work but the clock is ticking and 6 months after Microsoft takes the pirates offline those copies will all deactivate.

The default KMS keys are not a secret.  Here is a microsoft page with the list for Windows products: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867(v=ws.11).aspx  You will see the one you noted in your first post listed there I believe.


So the TL;DR version is that it had been installed with volume license media and had not been activated and the key had not been changed so it still had the default KMS key.  That is not evidence of pirating or attempted pirating.  It just means the panda guys used a volume license version of the windows 10 installation media.

Well so far DHL still only shows that a label was printed so it hasn't even entered their system yet.  But so far every single step of the process has taken several days, so if shipping takes a few days (and I am speaking of just the PinIdea portion of the shipping process) then it will fit the pattern.  I am inclined to believe at this point that something will eventually arrive though.  If the plan was to string me along they pretty much hit the end of the string along already, but really why bother?  They had my DASH coins from day one, they could have ignored me outright if they actually didn't plan on fulfilling the order.

EDIT: Tuesday is the past in Hong Kong and DHL still does not have the package.  They printed the DHL label on Saturday (in Hong Kong).  So including Sat we have 4 days since the label was printed with the package still not sent.  

EDIT2: Doh!  I just realized I had written the edit above on Monday.  Apparently I had gone into some sort of time warp.  As of this edit it is Wed morning in Hong Kong.  So Tuesday has now passed (for real) and Wed is passing.  DHL still does not have the actual package.

EDIT3: I just received notification from DHL that the package was picked up!  Which is odd since it is 5:16AM on Thursday there.  DHL estimates delivery on Friday!  I was starting to get a little antsy again.  I will update on how it works but probably not until I run it for a couple days which means the 30th at the earliest.

So if I get it Friday it will have been 2 weeks from order to arrival.  Not terrible I suppose.