It took about 6 hours, but I figured it out. Thanks  |
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My long-delayed BFL Little Single just arrived and I excitedly opened it up only to find a plethora of errors when trying to mine it with CGMiner. It currently recognizes the device as both "BFL0" and "BFL4" in error messages. Error messages range from "Comms error" to "Error: send work reports" to "Garbled response probably throttling, clearing buffer" and more. The temperature of the device is often listed at 28 degrees, but it is never shown mining (while my GPUs are)
I initially had an issue with driver recognition (Win7) which was ultimately solved by doing a windows search for drivers fix... Any fellow BFL "customers" (venture capital investors) have any tips?
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Hey folks,
My long-delayed BFL Little Single just arrived and I excitedly opened it up only to find a plethora of errors when trying to mine it with CGMiner. It currently recognizes the device as both "BFL0" and "BFL4" in error messages. Error messages range from "Comms error" to "Error: send work reports" to "Garbled response probably throttling, clearing buffer" and more. The temperature of the device is often listed at 28 degrees, but it is never shown mining (while my GPUs are)
I initially had an issue with driver recognition (Win7) which was ultimately solved by doing a windows search for drivers fix... Any fellow BFL "customers" (venture capital investors) have any tips?
Thanks.
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Interesting program, I have to say.
16 credits for trade. PM.
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Thanks for sharing this, Hal. I'm no coder/cryptopunk, yet I still find this inspirational. There is something about human spirit that makes raw stories universally motivating -- thank you.
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BFL has been holding onto millions of pre-order monies for almost a year, they continue to make excuses and have still not proven that they have any working prototype what so ever. On the website they show BFL FPGA singles with the cases off as the product picture. The Proof they give is photo-shopped incomplete boards. I am sorry but I do not see a BFL ASIC shipping any time soon if ever. I am pointing this out because I personally believe they are having the same problems that I had. Sonny is no more technologically skilled than I am , and no matter how much money you throw at a project if you dont have the right people and the right connections you will never get anywhere. The group of people who can design an asic that can mine Bitcoins is extremely small and most of them have their own projects. Josh has become more and more bizzarre and out of touch with reality. The house of cards at BFL is about to fall and again the only reason I am pointing this out is because at least I had the balls to admit that my project failed and I am making reparations to get everyone their money back. I could easily lie and deceive just like they are doing and string everyone along for months and months and continue to collect money but that is the difference between a legit guy like myself and you know who. Don't take my word for it, just read the forums, look past the lies and see whats really going on. I am the one with the scammer tag but I guarantee you if BFL fails at this project not a single one of you will see a refund from them outside of a court order.
Tom, first off, I wasn't a customer but you're showing some solid character/balls in your choice to refund everyone voluntarily. You fucked up (as we all have), got overloaded you're now doing the right thing. It's natural that people will get pissed off waiting for refunds, but you deserve some praise for your handling of this. Second, care to elaborate on your assessment of BFL's current progress with power estimates and hashing? It can get difficult to read between the propaganda/troll lines and speculate on where they actually are in the development process. |
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I know who Satoshi is about as well as the next guy does. I do, however, have a theory that he could be Phil Zimmerman of PGP fame. But he probably isn't. Thank you, wise sage. |
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Looks like we're officially good... We have heard you! Due to popular demand we will amend our upgrade policy to allow you to upgrade 1-4 Jalapenos for a Little Single and still keep your place in line. We are trying to contact anyone who was told they could not keep their same payment date, but if you know of somebody we have missed, email us and we will fix that.
Kindly yours,
Steven M.
Butterfly Labs, Inc. Customer Support So the only big question remaining in my mind is how one goes about paying for the second half of the order. I'm wondering if I can pay in cash after paying the first half in BTC... Either way, good move BFL. |
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I just had 2 Jalapenos ordered, ordered within the first week. I was perfectly happy with that order until the spec jump left Jals a tad in the dust, and would now prefer to pay extra for a Little SC, but don't want to get shoved to the back of the line for such as said.
To be clear, you could upgrade your 4 Jals to a Little SC but the 2 Jals were left as Jals, right? They told me 4 Jals was the minimum for an upgrade not effecting the order queue.
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Thanks. I have been emailing BFL on this and while it's true that one can "upgrade" a Jalapeno order for a Little SC, it seems that upgrading any orders under 4 Jals will reset one's place in the order queue. For those such as myself who ordered a couple Jals early, this puts us between a rock and a hard place. Bumped specs for the Jal are seriously lagging those of the other models, yet to upgrade to a Little SC would put one at the very end of the massive pre-order list, thus killing the value of a pre-order with numerous alternatives available. I am currently asking about refunds given the sudden shift in specs and options. |
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BFL, in light of the recent announcement of bumped specs and a new product prior to launch, I have a couple questions:
1) Is the "Little SC" going to be ready and shipped at launch on the same timeline as the original Jal/SC/Rig lineup?
2) If so, are you offering any "order upgrades" to folks, such as myself, who pre-ordered multiple jalapenos but would rather upgrade to a Little SC given Jal's performance bump being moderately lower?
3) Would such an upgrade impact one's place in pre-order shipments?
Many thanks in advance, and shame me with a link if this has already been answered elsewhere.
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Is anyone aware of how much mining stock wattage varies between the models? I have heard everything between 125W to 350+W but I'm considering picking up a second card in the case that it's closer to the former...
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Digging this thread back out from its June 6 grave.
Any more miners with settings, mhash results and watts to report?
I'm currently using an ASUS directCU II (non-TOP) pulling 673mh/s at stock voltage with 1150 GPU clock and 450 memory.. Just starting to play with optimization so input and other experiences would be great.
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I have found that flashing the default ATI 7950 Bios to any 7970, reduces the power consumption substantially, of course at 925MHz clock rates. I have noticed using a DMM that he 7950 Bios reduces the VDD to around 1.02V and is useful for Linux based mining rigs, since I could not find a software to control voltages of Tahiti based cards in Linux.
How is the success rate on 7950 flashing? |
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Is there any mining value to having an ASUS "Top" (factory overclocked) model vs non-overclocked?
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My ASUS 7970 DC2 is pulling 700 MH/s at stock voltage. It takes up 3 slots so you have to be willing to part with the space, but it does a really good job at keeping the thing cool, which goes a long way to stability. I'm looking at about 165W.
That is a very nice average. Is this the "TOP" factory overclocked version or the ref/directCU II? 165W also sounds significantly less than what I have seen benchmarked. Did you change anything? |
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Perhaps these cards are simply not the best 7970s for mining? They were before Asus locked the voltages. On the flip side, they do cool well. Mine hovered around 63°C when clocked at 1100/170. Annoying... Is there any way to check whether you have an older model asides plugging it in and seeing? Or are pretty much all of them locked now? I still have 7 days to consider a return. |
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Depends on what your power rates are - I'm currently locked into quite an expensive contract for the next couple of months and my three reference cards are sat mining at 950Mhz & 0.95V. Gets about 550Mhash per card and uses really very little power (about 115W per card).
To be honest, I'd just pick up the cheapest that you can get decent RMA support with - the 7970s haven't seemed fragile so far but we all know what mining does to these sorts of cards long-term...
Yeah I have elec included in my rent so it's not a huge concern; however, if I could pull 550Mhash out of 115W it would seem doable to shove another 5830 in for some extra lower-profile mining. My impression is that 5830s pull about 180W. Is $370 after rebate considered a good price on the locked ASUS DirectCU (minus OC)? |
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