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I can't recall if I saw the issue I'm having before on this post but searching hasn't yielded any results.
One of my Compacs has been running for about 10 days straight, more or less in a group of five. I've kept them at 150MHz until about 2 days ago and ramped them up first to 160MHz and the 170MHz the following day. After showing HW errors at 0.01% in about 4 hours I went back down to 165MHz where they ran for another 14 hours or so.
When I checked again at that time, HW errors was in the K range and steadily climbing. CryptoGlance showed the Compac hashing at a rate over 100GH/s and the status light on the Compac was rapidly flashing.
Initially after pulling the Compac from the USB hub I have found the voltage at 4.99 - 5.00, current draw at 0.22 amps, and V/Core at 0.630V when on standby. Plugging it back into the hub with cgminer running, the status LED continues flashing rapidly with HW errors at a corresponding rate. I tried turning the V/Core pot down as well as up to approximately 0.750V with no change.
I was wondering first if there is anything physical I can try and look at and failing anything simple and/or obvious, if I could send it in for inspection and possibly repair?
Thanks in advance.
One of my Compacs has been running for about 10 days straight, more or less in a group of five. I've kept them at 150MHz until about 2 days ago and ramped them up first to 160MHz and the 170MHz the following day. After showing HW errors at 0.01% in about 4 hours I went back down to 165MHz where they ran for another 14 hours or so.
When I checked again at that time, HW errors was in the K range and steadily climbing. CryptoGlance showed the Compac hashing at a rate over 100GH/s and the status light on the Compac was rapidly flashing.
Initially after pulling the Compac from the USB hub I have found the voltage at 4.99 - 5.00, current draw at 0.22 amps, and V/Core at 0.630V when on standby. Plugging it back into the hub with cgminer running, the status LED continues flashing rapidly with HW errors at a corresponding rate. I tried turning the V/Core pot down as well as up to approximately 0.750V with no change.
I was wondering first if there is anything physical I can try and look at and failing anything simple and/or obvious, if I could send it in for inspection and possibly repair?
Thanks in advance.
On what kind of hub and what kind of power going in to it?
At 0.22 amps (USB 2.0 should be ~0.500 amps, so your less than half, USB 3.0 should be ~0.900 amps), so it's more than likely power (or the lack of it) causing your problems. Probably when you started ramping up the MHz, it pushed the hub past what it could handle.
Which Superbpag, they make a couple different ones, up to the 70W one's?
A easy test if it's the hub, pull 1 of the sticks that hashing OK and plug the bad hashing one in to the OK's one port. If it works, plug the just pulled OK one in where the bad one was and see what it does.
A easy test if it's the hub, pull 1 of the sticks that hashing OK and plug the bad hashing one in to the OK's one port. If it works, plug the just pulled OK one in where the bad one was and see what it does.
If you go back a little ways, I've managed to get my test stick to go in that hyper mode, the issue I think was, it got to hot, and the controller got confused, simple little trick, fan!
Four sticks run fine on 70W Superbpag, but fifth one is usually unstable-large number of errors.
However, sometimes, but not always, five work. In my experience it works depending on stick arrangement on the particular Superbpag hub-for example three in a row, gap, fourth, gap, fifth, on mine. But it not always work. Sometimes it works if you put four initially, let them stabilize, then sneak in the fifth one.
Also, make sure to separate sticks from each other by a piece of plastic (I simply used an old store card or old library card without magnetic strips, but this point might not matter). Otherwise, sticks touch each other in the hub and I am not sure that there is no interference.
TL;DR: five can work at default speed, but four are typically more stable on Superbpag.
First, Jake36. I realized later that you're asking me to check the current while the Compac is working instead of idle. I get 0.61-0.65 amps working with the V/Core at 0.631V. The other Compacs pull around 0.88A but I haven't turned down the V/Core yet (0.750).
I am using a 70W Superbpag. I was hoping for a hub problem since that's easier to replace so the port swap with good Compacs was the first check. No luck for me...
ARJGale, the Compac throwing errors was pulled and left alone for about 32 hours and started throwing errors right away when started again.
Biodom, I'm wondering if instability is what occurred when I tried five at 170MHz but I didn't run them long enough at that point to find out. I ordered a couple more Compacs from the second batch so I'll have to check for that as well after I get them.
