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I'm not sure who was assembling them, but I think they might have been in grade school.
Mine doesn't look to bad but the 0 GH/s speaks for itself.
So lets speculate why all the cages are bent. It looks like they all are and a consistent amount. Do they not want us to be able to upgrade with an additional card? Do they think we'll find a work around to use different software to run the machine since CGminer supports the a-1 chips and want us to get a board from another manufacture? Was it necessary to fit the cage into the cases? Maybe they were going for something iconic like the nike swoosh.
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This is my pool data from ghash.io for my 1 working card. it ran for 16hrs and was saying 250ghs on the amt ip control screen. ghash.io registers a very irratic 80ghs for 16hrs  maybe amt are actually geniuses and they taught the miner to like like they do ;-) |
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regarding The 2 boards thats dont run one is the one in the picture above. the other looks ok regarding thermal paste and heat sinks. but both ran upto 190ghs~ the would have chip failures until they both eventually shut down. and now all i get is no a1 chip chain found. so the cards are not registering. i think they maybe dead now. there is no reason why one board works fine and the other 2 dont. i need 2 new boards i think.
Did you try them in different slots on the backplane? |
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This is pic of 1 of my boards that doesnt run. you can see the bent copper heat sinks and paste all over.  Damn dude. Those are bent to shit. I only have one little prong bet. It looks like someone was kicking your box down the road. Now hopefully the cable is the only issue with mine. once I can finally check the information about the chips and see if they are working. |
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If this new cable gets my kit working where would you suggest I mine so that you have the most readable information. That way you either shut up after a bit of gloating because it's not up to snuff, or you shut up because it somehow magically ends up working. (I'm betting on the former rather than the latter. But if it gets you to quite down about the same damn thing everyday I'll gladly assist you. Though I won't have the power draw specs to give you. |
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goin to try and use mellorbos/regtables back plane and ribbon on my machine and see if that sorts my issue. and also try my corsair rm1000 on their setup and see if it sorts there power issues out. results posted in a bit hopefully
you are all running the 520's right? |
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I'm too sick, tired, and medicated to work on this. Maybe in the morning I can run to the electronics shop down the street and just see if they have a cable in. I saw like every number but 26. I did see 36 so I could just peel 10 away I imagine. and the connectors are $.70 cents for two. Then I just go to their tech area and see if they can't crimp that on proper for me. if they don't charge more than the crimping tool I'll do it.
That way if it's no the cable I can move on to what ever other issue it could be.
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its day 2 of attemting to get my rig running correctly. ill add tht also on arrival of my miner i noticed the bend in the cage and i think its suppose to be there. although i have bent copper heat sinks on some of the a1 chips.
I had one only one bent prong on my of the copper heat sinks on the top most board. I'm hoping it didn't konch the chip out of whack. are the connectors both supposed to be facing up or should one be up and one be down? I have one facing up and one facing down. it causes the cable to have a stupid twist to it when I plug it into the backplane and main board. edit: When I tried put the connector back on the ribbon I put it on backwards. It was doing the crazy twist thing from the beginning. |
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So is it the ribbon itself that will be the issue? Can it be easily fixed or should I just wait until the one I have on order arrives?
So it doesn't seem to be a power issue.
We can fedex you out a new one on Monday if you'd like. Also in your previous images you had an adapter going from the 4 pin molex to the back plane, can you check if that's properly secured. In similar situations, we've seen clients get a can't connect to cgminer error message when there is no power being distributed through the back plane. Perhaps for another revision on the backplane you include some sort of led indicator that lets us know it is properly receiving power. just food for thought. |
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So is it the ribbon itself that will be the issue? Can it be easily fixed or should I just wait until the one I have on order arrives?
So it doesn't seem to be a power issue.
We can fedex you out a new one on Monday if you'd like. Also in your previous images you had an adapter going from the 4 pin molex to the back plane, can you check if that's properly secured. In similar situations, we've seen clients get a can't connect to cgminer error message when there is no power being distributed through the back plane. I have it on there as tightly seated as possible, but I have a few of the adapters so I can switch it out and just generally re hook it up to ensure there is a good connection. If you can ship me a new cable on mnday that would be great, I'd appreciate it. I switched out the adapter and made sure both ends were tightly seated so there should be no issue with power there. If you think it is a faulty backplane feel free to send me one of those as well and I'd be happy to ship this backplane back when I receive the new one. |
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So is it the ribbon itself that will be the issue? Can it be easily fixed or should I just wait until the one I have on order arrives?
So it doesn't seem to be a power issue.
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Before applying power do this first.
Remove the SDcard from the RPI you must have a backup, it has all the settings and such on it, NOT easy to get another, if it was my machine, I would have a few saved.
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Quote from: opieum2 on April 10, 2014, 01:36:33 PM
Most reliable method IMO is to make a dd image of the SDcard and keep it backed up somewhere (or two) this way if you ever needed to restore it would just be a matter of running the DD command (windows or Linux) back onto the sdcard or its replacement.
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Someone will splice all this together, and make it pretty I am sure.
More info:
Upon request of a member to copy this to an original post.
Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on April 09, 2014, 11:41:21 PM
Do these have a web interface aside from an IP setup, and pool/password menus? Would be nice. (Ants do). All kinds of info including network traffic is available. Also allows for all the usual 'ux type shells, system maint., & other goodies.
Response from AMT:
Yes, but the rigs do not come with the little LCD display because they are mounted to the hard drive trey in the case - mounted either with electrical tape or double sided mounting tape. Also we've seen the little LCD screen flop from side to side because of length of the connector cable, and have shorted the rasPI a few times when the screen accidentally hits the RasPI because the screens sides are all metal. That's the main reason we do not include the screen in the Kit, it's frustrating to get the screen to sit properly on the table and is generally an accident waiting to happen. The only purpose of the the little LCD display is to show the ip address of the user interface and the current hashrate.
Upon going to the IP address in your browser (Don't bother with internet explorer, use any other browser) you will see the user interface.
Accessing the user interface:
Username: admin
Password: admin
Accessing the ip address without the little LCD screen:
Plug an HDMI cable into the rasPI and start the miner by plugging in the cable. You'll see a big raspberry with a loading bar on the bottom. After which you'll see the root login:
Access cgminer of AMT 1.2Th miner:
username: root
pass: amt
#killall cgminer (the miner is programmed to start immediately, that's why we kill cgminer upon login, as a rule the miner starts running with the credentials you add in the cgminer settings page (Click Settings - then click Cgminer)
#ifconfig
You'll see several addresses, the first being a local network ip address, usually starting with 192.168.1.(some number here) or 10.1.10.(some number here). Use that address to find the user interface in your browser.
If you don't have an HDMI cable and monitor free, you can check your router's admin panel for new ip addresses detected after plugging in the network cable and plugging in the miner.
Remember: From the time you plug in your miner, your miner is mining, so make sure all your fans are running and proper cooling is administered. A1 chips heat up quick, and you do not want to over heat your miner.
Workaround encase you don't want to start mining immediately and want to test the Raspberry pi and user interface setup first:
Unplug the GPIO ribbon cable from the back plane before plugging in the network cable and starting the miner. Login to the rasPI with the credential above and get the IP address first, then go to the Ip address in your browser, configure your settings (pool settings, speed, etc) and save. Then power off the miner, plug in the GPIO ribbon cable to the back plane, connect the backplane to the hashing modules - (make sure all the pins from the back plane connectors are in the right slots - look above and below each pin/connector on each module - plugging in the backplane wrong can short hashing modules which may result in the miner not seeing the module.) Then power on your miner and you should be good to go via the user interface or ssh login.
More to come on that for sure, but that was a quick response with a bit more details for those that receive their kit encase we don't get a video up within the next few days.
I had done all of the above. Still no hashing from my miner. Going back through and working in reverse when I started it with the GPIO unplugged I see what the regular raspberry should look like. The one I was getting before was definitely blown way up. AMT has made that sound like a GPIO problem, so hopefully when I return next thursday and my new GPIO cable is here then I will be able to have this thing up and running finally. |
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They should start anyway, despite your PSU's specification.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xYWCp2X1nsI#t=509AMT please turn your attention to this video, I've already done you a favor and it's queued up to the part I need you to watch. Just so you can't blame your product on the power supply. Also I already have another female to female gpio cable on order, made that one last night just incase. sadly I'm going out of town tomorrow and you shipped me non working hardware and or accessories so I won't get this thing up and running until mid way through next week , maybe, due to your negligence as you didn't properly check everything you shipped.
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Amt has requested that I take down the image I pulled off my card, as they don't want it on the internet.
I told them I wanted a working miner like I paid $5795 for.
I just noticed it because I don't usually check to see if I have private messages.
But because they asked so nicely (not really) I'll take it down at their request.
If only they'd honor our requests. You would think they get how this business thing works by now.
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1.2 miner DIY Kit has arrived and the packaging is awful. The chassis is bent and some of the cards don't have screws holding them in place.
2/5 cards have 2 screws
2/5 cards have 1 screw
1/5 cards have no screws
and no instructions on how to get this thing up and going.
Good job amt. mine was bent too. It's looking less and less like a mistake and more like a cool new feature! |
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1.2 miner DIY Kit has arrived and the packaging is awful. The chassis is bent and some of the cards don't have screws holding them in place.
2/5 cards have 2 screws
2/5 cards have 1 screw
1/5 cards have no screws
and no instructions on how to get this thing up and going.
With any luck it will detect your cards. |
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I also added a picture of the sticker on that was on the power supply for you since you don't believe that they won't spin.
And a picture of your web interface where it says cgminer is not connected.
Oh by the way this is how I initially set it all up when I first got it on thursday , checking the boards one at a time with the one power supply as I was told when talking to josh on the phone. |
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I also added a picture of the sticker on that was on the power supply for you since you don't believe that they won't spin.
And a picture of your web interface where it says cgminer is not connected.
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When you start the miner, does the power supply fan start and stop or does it continue to spin? I've got the 850 slaved to the 1000 with this particular model it has a low noise mode and the fan doesn't kick on until there is significant load. That said neither fan has ever kicked on (but there aren't automatically expected too) They should start anyway, despite your PSU's specification. Do the following: Disconnect the second supply and all power cables going to the miner period. Take the second power supply and its cables and move it to the other side of the room so you don't make any mistakes. Using only one power supply, try and run one board with the HDMI and monitor setup. Also you never responded to the previous question about the distorted raspberry, because your problem seems to be either the gpio cable or the power. Also at which point did the modules start to not show up, after hashing for a while or what? I said I didn't know what the raspberry load screen should look like exactly so I don't know if it's distorted at all. The modules never showed up at all. Did the raspberry that loaded look to big for the screen, as if you were zoomed into an image by 300% or more? If the modules never showed up at all, its a power related issue for sure, please do the following: They should start anyway, despite your PSU's specification. Do the following: Disconnect the second supply and all power cables going to the miner period. Take the second power supply and its cables and move it to the other side of the room so you don't make any mistakes. Using only one power supply, try and run one board with the HDMI and monitor setup. Create a setup as if you're only running one board and DO NOT plug in the PCIE cables to the remaining four boards. You may not realize how patronizing you sound. it still didn't find the board, only one plugged in. Pictures of the start up https://app.box.com/s/f34def1ofvsgusudnf0a |
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When you start the miner, does the power supply fan start and stop or does it continue to spin? I've got the 850 slaved to the 1000 with this particular model it has a low noise mode and the fan doesn't kick on until there is significant load. That said neither fan has ever kicked on (but there aren't automatically expected too) They should start anyway, despite your PSU's specification. Do the following: Disconnect the second supply and all power cables going to the miner period. Take the second power supply and its cables and move it to the other side of the room so you don't make any mistakes. Using only one power supply, try and run one board with the HDMI and monitor setup. Also you never responded to the previous question about the distorted raspberry, because your problem seems to be either the gpio cable or the power. Also at which point did the modules start to not show up, after hashing for a while or what? I said I didn't know what the raspberry load screen should look like exactly so I don't know if it's distorted at all. The modules never showed up at all. |
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