seems the new firmware is down on the site as it just gives a 404 and i never got chance to download it as id assumed they had just vanished into the ether, can anyone up it somewhere for me, id be very grateful

its highly likely a modded cgminer that actually does work, if i remember rightly CG doesnt cut the system off after 60 secs without a share, but i may try and nab a rip of that zen software and see what its doing, if its just a pi/beagle i can make one easily

yep, it just crashes the second it starts up sadly, BFG is most successful so far it works fine for pool mining but it just wont solo, i also tried --cmd-idle wait in the hope it wouldnt give the "No shares for 60 seconds declaring sick" bit i think itll come down to me having to mod the bfgminer code, but as yet i cant find the sources for the bfg tweaked for zeus (standard bfg doesnt seem to support it yet)

i tried to setup solo mining of a fairly easy coin (Dnotes) but as with any solo mining you only see submitted shares when you actually find a block, the BFGminer thats modded for zeus compatibility starts but when it hasnt found a block for 60 seconds it disables the unit, so basically as it stands i cant find a way you could solo mine with a zeus, not unless youre super lucky and manage to find at least one block per second.

so does anyone know how to turn this very annoying feature off?

this weather is not helping matters, im having boards crap out left and right, over the last few days ive seen three boards die to half power (clicking out when it tries to start the cooling resulting in having to disable the pump) i also have one board rig thats totally dead, one board clicks out on the cooling like the others but on both chips and the other just never powers, im starting to worry that none of these will make it to the end of summer

Beans:

you can do a quick fix by cracking the lid off and just connecting the boards to a pc by usb, just use cgminer with cointerra support compiled in, to restore the beagle fully you may need to get a cloned image from a good one, boot the beagle from the SD, ssh in and dd the working image over the onboard nand

are there any proper pools for this or are they all p2pool nodes?

i havent seen anything connected to j11 on any of the rigs ive seen either, can anyone who has these cables tell us where theyre connected to?

eek, ive put MX4 on a few rigs here, id better check them soon after reading that, but the coollabratory stuff should be here tomorrow anyway (along with some hopefully less problematic KnC neptunes) but since its started getting warmer these things are dropping like flies, often i can get them back to life but not for long before they start having other issues

a simple fix, i just dumped the emmc of a clean beaglebone, just dd or use win32diskimager to put it on an SD card and pop it in the beagle, by default itll boot from the SD so should avoid the hack completely, i dont have a hacked unit myself so i cant be 100% sure but it should work. heres the link:

https://mega.co.nz/#!sVcjFJqY!4vvOsdQBqNjzalfsmCzFlntjy4INlH1HqLEJPvXE6DI

which part did you replace it with? the block is a custom one (i asked coolIT who made it but they dont sell them and said id need to contact cointerra support) and i couldnt find any alternative blocks with integrated 3 pin pumps that looked decent or have you just got an external pump?

its likely a coincidence, usually when you get extra CTAs in the web interface it means the board has failed and reset, when it reconnects to cgminer it is added as a new device, i think i have a rough idea of whats likely happened but its only a somewhat educated guess. when it was running at 1.2 chances are one core on one of the boards was overheating and being throttled or even temporarily disabled resulting in the lowered hash rate, however after it hits a certain temp (i believe around 120C) the board shuts down completely, it then restarts and gets re-added then fails again.

if you open up the rig and connect the board to cgminer with cointerra enabled youll get better error reporting, by no means is it concise but it will at least tell you when the board resets or gets disabled, sadly ive never gotten a board back to full power but i have got some from dead to running at half power. if you happen to be lucky then it may be as easy as replacing the thermal compound on the problem board, but sadly ive found its rarely that easy

no theyre always like that (well i havent seen brown ground cables before only black) its how i worked out that you can switch them round, still not sure why it fixed the prob though

i have what should be a simple fix for those suffering with a hacked cointerra, however my upload speed royally sucks so i thought id check if anyone actually wants/needs it before i bother upping it, its not exactly a difficult fix so many people have likely done it themselves or its already out there but someone mentioned to me that they had a hacked rig and couldnt fix it so i made it for them (sadly that was on the cointerra forum, which is now gone)

that sounds like its almost identical to the problem i had (well one of them anyway) and i literally mean what i say on the cables, i didnt get new ones just changed how they are connected. unscrew the bolt that holds in the 12v (green and yellow wire) remember which terminal it came off, now unscrew the bolt for the black GND wire, bolt the black GND cable to the terminal you took the 12V green and yellow cable off, likewise bolt the 12V to the terminal the GND cable came off, do this only at one end (either on the power board or on the main goldstrike board) hopefully it should now power up. why this works i dont know, but it seems to

nothing permanent, im looking at liquidmetal pads to replace the compound, ive also heard that there is the possibility the shims that protect the cores from the block being tightened too far may be a shade thick so i may try sanding them down a bit to try and get better results, i wish they hadnt hardcoded all the cutoffs and detection things (eg one of the units i look after cant read the waterpump hence the board wont start with that pump connected) were it not for all that we could easily swap out the cooling system in place for a stronger cooling system, not that its not possible still, its just a bit more of a pain

one thing that does seem to help is regular restarts, you can add a cron job to resart the system every few hours which seems to help a bit but not too much

if the fan doesnt turn on then its not the water pump, it looks almost identical to the prob i solved by swapping the 12V and GND terminals, AC light on but not DC, does it power the beagle if connected? The DC light doesnt need to go green for that)

also have you tried powering the PSU with just the power board connected? no beaglebone and no big power connection? if its still not firing up then try the board thats having problems in place of the board that still works, eliminate everything else individually, will the board hash? if yes will both PSUs power it up with a known good power board? (dont forget to test with the terminals connected both ways just to be safe) if yes then its almost certainly the PSU, i think its likely to be the powerboard or mainboard though id guess as you still have power in the supply or the lights at the back wouldnt be on

the hack is as far as im aware limited only to the beaglebone, thankfully (in a way) the goldstrike boards are stand alone, crack the lid off, disconnect the USBs and wire the boards directly into a linux PC with a cointerra enabled build of cgminer on, or just remake your own image if you really want to stick with the beagle, im getting rather clued up on repairing cointerras now (not bad for someone who doesnt actually own one!) maybe i should start some sort of blog on the potentail fixes etc, especially since the cointerra forums died

these things have tons of issues that can make them not boot, in this case i can think of two. one of which has a fix which i dont understand the workings of but it works so i dont question it. lets start with the important bit, does your PSU power up at all, eg does the orange light go green them flick back to orange?

if it flicks orange/green

this seems to be an issue with the watercooling, not the actual cooler itself just the system not correctly reading it, if you watch the lights on the front of the board they will cycle across and then stop and restart, i dont have an actual fix here as swapping the board into another rig didnt work, it still clicked out the power indicating that its not the pump at fault but something on the board. in any case the half fix is to simply unplug the offending water pump (do one then the other, youll know if it starts hashing that you got the right one) its not going to bring it fully back to life but it will hash on just the core that the cooling is connected to.

next up is what happens if you just get an orange light on the psu and the fan on it turns on (in this state it will still power the beaglebone too) and im not entirely sure why this fix works but when i swapped the cables round on the power board (12v off and onto and and vice versa) it powers up, i have no clue why this worked but it did

i have had 2 PSUs fail on the rigs i look after before too and they dont do that, you just dont get lights at all and nothing happens, i do have the original data sheet for them too and the second time around we just replaced it rather than sending the rig all the way back to the US, heres a link to where i found them:

http://www.digikey.co.uk/product-detail/en/PFE1100-12-054NA/179-2421-ND/2627912

but for info there will be no 12v unless the green lights are both on, if you want to test if the PSU is good disconnect everything from the power board and connect just the board to the PSU and power it, this should fully switch it on and give you both green lights (obviously dont touch the terminals, theyre live) as long as that happens your PSU is likely good and the problem will be on the board. what we do need is for cointerra to open source that board firmware as these things have a ton of issues.

also it looks like cointerra have ditched their forum, pretty much all mention of it is gone

stop schilling the pool that just forked the damn coin, theres too much power there already, do you really want another fork? because i dont want to lose another chunk of coins

youre seriously advertising after that?? youve got brass balls ill give you that, but im not giving you any more of my MH