hi Neil The version display in the webgui still shows "MinePeon Version: MinePeon 0.2.4 pr2" Thanks |
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tldr: Pay $200/a generic deposit on a credit card. Just have to auth it, dont even need to take it.
They send you new chip. You send back. They cancel auth.
If you don't send chip in, they take the payment.
I would say that replacing the generic deposit with a bitcoin deposit would be another way. There is zero risk for KNC. Perhaps put down a retainer of 4-5 BTC per module, and once the RMA module has been shipped back the BTC deposit should be refunded. If they did this, I think people with Saturns and Mercurys would scam them to jump the queue and get extra modules unless Knc charged an exorbitant amount for failure to ship modules back. then just double up the required deposit so it does not serve any incentive not to return the RMA module  |
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tldr: Pay $200/a generic deposit on a credit card. Just have to auth it, dont even need to take it.
They send you new chip. You send back. They cancel auth.
If you don't send chip in, they take the payment.
I would say that replacing the generic deposit with a bitcoin deposit would be another way. There is zero risk for KNC. Perhaps put down a retainer of 4-5 BTC per module, and once the RMA module has been shipped back the BTC deposit should be refunded. |
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I received my 100-euro refund for the hashrate deficit today; thank you! I know not everyone's experience is the same, but I've been happy with cryptx the whole way through: received my BitBurner Fury essentially on time, it works great within its limitations (runs at ~52GH/s, so obviously the 64GH/s goal was a regrettable miscalculation), and then received the promised hashrate protection refund without even having to request it. In the meantime, he's gotten the start of the Peta-Mine up and running and paying out. I think cryptx is doing some good work in an otherwise chaotic and frustrating space. Just sayin'.
Yes, communication could have been better. But so far I am somewhat happy with the product. I was shipped one board less but this was promptly corrected and I was a shipped another board shortly Cheers |
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Hi blackarrow
Just received a BTC payment address for very small test order but the BTC conversion rates are like 50% higher than market rates when comparing to BitStamp/BTC-E, let alone if compared with mtgox/btcchina.
May I know how are you calculating these rates? Because I already see conversion fee inside the invoice for BTC payments so the difference should not be that high
Thanks
I think my colleagues explained to you that the rates are calculated when the payment information is given to you, which was few days ago (one week). If you want new rates to be calculated you will have to cancel your order and place it again. The invoices are registered on the date of placement with the rates of that date. We cannot adjust invoices already registered. Of course if you cancel your order and place it again your place in the queue will change. We also cancel orders placed on our website which are older than 2 weeks and unpaid. Thank you. Sounds fair enough. On another note, any tentative dates as to when you will be accepting CC payments ? |
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Hi blackarrow
Just received a BTC payment address for very small test order but the BTC conversion rates are like 50% higher than market rates when comparing to BitStamp/BTC-E, let alone if compared with mtgox/btcchina.
May I know how are you calculating these rates? Because I already see conversion fee inside the invoice for BTC payments so the difference should not be that high
Thanks
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@cryptx Any plan for future boards sale again?
I would be interested too, albeit at a discounted price |
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Firmware 0.9.6.1 just released
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I momentarily even saw the web interface, but when I told it my stratum URL for my p2pool it somehow told the power supply to shut down.
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The Saturn comes on for a minute or two, but before I can even ping it a bright white light shines and it apparently tells the power supply to shut down again.
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Any idea what-all that behavior might be trying to convey?
-MarkM-
Its the overload protection of the PSU kicking in. On the 4VRM boards with firmware < 0.95, I have seen the wattage jumping up (and consuming more power than a >=0.95 FW) and down which would explain why the PSU is shutting down in order to protect itself This issue was fixed in >= 0.95. I had a seasonic 1050W which was also doing that and had to rebalance the PCIE connectors to get it up and flash it Cheers |
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Anyone have a problem with the Bitburner boards crashing raspberry pis?
It doesn't really make much sense but randomly the raspberry pi will freeze up with a "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address" error.
The only way to continue is to unplug the pi and plug it back in.
I've tried two different raspberry pis with two different SD cards. I've tried using a wireless USB network adaptor and a wired ethernet connection. I'm using a powered USB hub. I've tried 2 different hubs and also tried using no hub at all.
I'm running the special version of cgminer recommended in the instructions and using raspbian wheezy on the pi.
I've ran rpi-update to update the firmware.
None of my other raspberry pis ever crash, and this pi only crashes when running cgminer with the 8 bitburner boards. It's strange that sometimes it will go a couple of days without crashing and then suddenly it will stop working and I won't even get it to run 15 minutes without crashing again repeatedly.
I'm at a loss as what is left to try. Anybody have any other suggestions or seen this error before?
I have been running the latest minePeon PR2 image (with CGMINER) and so far so good. I have the PI also hooked up to a Little Single in addition to the 2 Bitburner boards. However if I reboot the PI I have to power cycle the boards to recover from the USB write errors ------------------------------------------------------------------ cgminer version 3.6.1 - Started: [2013-10-20 15:15:28] ------------------------------------------------------------------ (5s):131.8G (avg):129.4Gh/s | A:2163328 R:12864 HW:84174 WU:1807.2/m ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 174 LW: 2931655 GF: 0 RF: 0 Connected to XXXXX.btcguild.com diff 64 with stratum as user XXXXX Block: 000b9d4ecadb222d... Diff:268M Started: [11:35:18] Best share: 3.94M -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BAL 0: max 70C 3.27V | 31.08G/30.88Gh/s | A:516224 R:2048 HW: 1317 WU: 430.7/m BTB 0: 52C 278 1083mV | 49.35G/49.56Gh/s | A:833920 R:6592 HW:36435 WU: 692.4/m BTB 1: 48C 278 1090mV | 52.49G/48.97Gh/s | A:813440 R:4224 HW:46424 WU: 684.1/m -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Refund received. Thanks Cryptx.
Its a pity though that the boards were not able to reach the targeted hash rates
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Are there any instructions on how to manually update just the CGMINER to the latest version by getting it directly from the GIT?
Is there a specific reason that you need the latest version - i.e. does it fix a problem you are having or solve a security issue ? The PR2 comes with CGminer 3.6.1 which I have been having issues running with the Bitburner Fury boards. Which is why I was wanting to give the latest release a go Cheer |
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For those having trouble reflashing, perform these steps in exact order-make sure board is not powered or conected via USB, first :
1.Start pic32prog.exe
2.Connect the USB cable -if you have already plugged in the mini USB end, leave it and just disconnect/conect the USB end to PC.
3.Power cycle the board
4.Click on connect tab from pc32prog in 5s
5.Reflash
Edit: So far I'm experiencing some problems with original fw+ cgminer 3.6.1 or 3.6.2, so I 'm on 3.5.1 now testing more . I didn't reflash my board yet cause I'm ok with performance so far, getting arround 51 Gh/s on 280/1390.I also set cgwatcher to monitor and restart the board every 5 h.
Will try later and will also post a small review. Have you tried 3.6.4? I was having some issues with 3.6.1 (some kind of memory leak and cgminer was closing when ran out of memory), but it seems fixed with the last version. Yup no luck with 3.6.1. |
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I see this new cgminer reads them as bbf, does it give some better performance than 3.5.0?
I believe it was the latest firmware that would show them as BBF instead of BTB |
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can someone confirm the reset procedure via the little black button.
Is it (I know I read the Manuel but just need to sanity check) press 5 time in a row, then wait 5 seconds and then press it a further 5 times in a row.
What does this do and how does it differ from Power off and back on.
Yes, that is the correct procedure. |
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Are there any instructions on how to manually update just the CGMINER to the latest version by getting it directly from the GIT? Or are there any specific configurations that needs to be done first>? Cheers |
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Is there a way to recover from the dreaded "usb_write error on avalon_write" error without power cycling the miner?
I'm getting it now and I'm not at home to power cycle it. No matter how many times I reboot my pi or restart cgminer seems to fix it.
+1 fixing this would be great!  This already drove me this angry that I've put the device for sale... However, after seeing the bids I don't think I will sell the device +2 . Would like to upvote this. Running on a PI and then doing a sudo reboot. The only way to get it back is to power cycle the boards |
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Sorry for the nub question. But are there instructions for setting it up with a static ip. I don't seem to be having any luck with getting the pr2 image static IP working. Had no problems with the 0.23a version
Cheers
I noticed on 0.2.4 PR1, that within sudo wicd-curses, go to preferences (shift+P) it had the wired interface setup as ifb1, I changed it to eth0, saved (f10) went back to the main screen, then went into the preference for eth0 (should be first device on the list, you use the right arrow to go into the configuration for said device), setup the static ip information, saved (F10), then connected (Shift+C) and all was good. Hope that helps. Thanks! That did the trick |
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Sorry for the nub question. But are there instructions for setting it up with a static ip. I don't seem to be having any luck with getting the pr2 image static IP working. Had no problems with the 0.23a version
Cheers
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Update on refunds:
We will issue the 100,- Euro refund per board / 600,- Euro for 8 board unit. Refunds will be processed as soon as our PayPal account has been unblocked (currently all funds are held hostage by PayPal, even for refunds).
I can understand the situation with paypal. However, quite a few of us also paid with BTC, and these should not have been affected. Would you look into refunding those who paid in BTC ? Cheers |
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