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I think its funny how people have come to believe that this magic cash cow will continue to give milk.
I've been mining with my own hardware since the beginning of the year.
From what I see is that home mining will soon come to a screeching halt.
Unless you have a way to cut your electric cost dramatically or the price of BTC skyrockets ( which is not going to happen ),
home mining will be over and done by early 2015.
The difficulty is going to skyrocket in the next few months, and like it or not the numbers dont lie.
Go to any BTC mining calculator and put in your TRUE numbers for power costs and speed and you will see what I mean.
Yes some people who have very low power costs and newer hardware that is more efficient will be able to hold on a few more months but anyone buying in now is done before they start.
It's not only the difficulty increase but what a lot of people don't know is that the BLOCK REWARD is soon to be cut if half.
Once that happens it doesn't matter what hardware you have you still dont have a chance.
Ok rant is over, good luck and it was fun while it lasted.
JMHO
Bob
There's still 100 000 blocks to be found before then. |
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Ah, you're using BFGminer. In that case, you do need the FTDI driver. Do you see the device as a comm port when you plug it in?
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No it doesn't, but the erupters does
Oh oh Guess who's back baby! That's right after installing CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified.exe it is finally hashing without problem! Thank you MrTeal and hotwired007!
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Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.
I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in. The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili. I have hope it's not doomed yet. I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results. Thanks for the help! Try installing the libusb driver using zadig, as explained in the cgminer readme. http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/zadig/I tried installing libusb and my erupters were not longer working and the Chili wasn't showing up in bfgminer. The only way I got them back working again was by re-installing CP210x USB to UART Bridge Driver v6.6.1 outside zadig. But the Chili is still unresponsive. I got 15 Erupters and 1 Chili on this build and I've been using Bfgminer 4.5 for a while without problems. Edit: I'll unplug all erupters and see what's going on in device manager Soo after unplugging everyting I can see the Chili in device manager as BitForce SHA256 SC. In Zadig the driver is WinUSB v.6.1.7600 WCID: X but still doesn't appear in Bfgminer on the original pc. BUT it does on the laptop with these drivers and CGminer BUT it doesn't mine. Cgminer connects to the pool but after 30 min nothing shows. If I try to install the WCID it fail everytime Again with Zadig I tried the libusb_win32 v1.2.6.0 driver without luck The guy who sold it to me, told me he never was able to get the chili work with BFGminer. He used cgminer. But it worked right away the first time for me in BFG wy doesn't it work now  |
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Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.
I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in. The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili. I have hope it's not doomed yet. I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results. Thanks for the help! |
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Hi guys, I recently bought a used Chili miner for cheap and it ran fine for a week. Today, my pc had a BSOD and rebooted. After that the chili miner is no longer discovered by Windows. The power led comes on and the last led, starting from the usb port, is flashing as soon as the power is up. No other LEDs comes on.
Any idea on what is happening?
EDIT: I resetted the MCU and now only the second to last led is flashing...
I tried updating the drivers, it says up to date.
Left the Chili miner unplugged from power and USB for a half hour and plugged it back, same results
Unplugged the miner, rebooted the PC, plugged it back, no luck.
Is it quite hot where you are? That LED will flash during startup while it's waiting to calibrate the on-die temperature sensors, but if the ambient is quite high it will continue waiting indefinitely for the board temp to get to a more normal temperature. The room was quite hot so I waited for the night. Now if I plug the power in, without the usb cable, I see some leds flashing and only the last 2 will continue to flash for a little while until it all goes dark, power led still on. If i connect a usb cable nothing happens, either on the pc or the chili. |
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Hi guys, I recently bought a used Chili miner for cheap and it ran fine for a week. Today, my pc had a BSOD and rebooted. After that the chili miner is no longer discovered by Windows. The power led comes on and the last led, starting from the usb port, is flashing as soon as the power is up. No other LEDs comes on.
Any idea on what is happening?
EDIT: I resetted the MCU and now only the second to last led is flashing...
I tried updating the drivers, it says up to date.
Left the Chili miner unplugged from power and USB for a half hour and plugged it back, same results
Unplugged the miner, rebooted the PC, plugged it back, no luck.
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Lady luck is with us today!
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Hi guys I've read some of the pages of the thread and did a google search without finding the answer to my question. I bought 2 Antminer S1 Both of them are plugged in a Thermaltake 750 watt PSU After 24h hours of mining one of them is showing alot of HW errors. Like half the shares. All ASICs chips are OK and both S1 are plugged in the same switch pointing to the same pool. I did a reboot on the S1 with all the errors and after only 17 minutes it's already showing the same trend. Could it be my PSU? Here's a screenshot after the reboot http://www.flickr.com/photos/56699195@N00/14856322640Thanks for the help! Your hardware errors are fine at a 0.35% rate. To calculate use HW/(HW+DiffA+DiffR)= HW%. Thanks! |
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Hi guys I've read some of the pages of the thread and did a google search without finding the answer to my question. I bought 2 Antminer S1 Both of them are plugged in a Thermaltake 750 watt PSU After 24h hours of mining one of them is showing alot of HW errors. Like half the shares. All ASICs chips are OK and both S1 are plugged in the same switch pointing to the same pool. I did a reboot on the S1 with all the errors and after only 17 minutes it's already showing the same trend. Could it be my PSU? Here's a screenshot after the reboot http://www.flickr.com/photos/56699195@N00/14856322640Thanks for the help! |
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