Hi Sidehack,

I've PM'd you a couple of times back in Feb regarding repairs?
Could you check your inbox and respond when you have a spare 5 sec?

Thanks heaps.

Chooka

Sorry but I don't think that statement is true.
Out of the 5 I bought, 3 died within weeks... 2 are going strong.
All plugged into a Superbpag powered hub and all calibrated to 0.7V.

The 2 working ones are great but I'm not happy that the other 3 died for no reason and it certainly wasn't from misuse.
Cost an arm & leg with currency conversion & freight to Australia.

I'd love to know if there was anything I could do to fix or check the 3 duds.

I'm using a Superbpag 7 port USB3.0 Hub as recommended by people on this thread and the sticks go fine. If I plug that hub into a USB3.0 port on my mobo though, the sticks don't work. Plugged into USB 2.0 only.

These also worked plugged into my usb2.0 port on my pc case & mobo.
Just needed to increase the voltage as per the beginning of this thread, to get stability.

Saves you reading all the way back through

Sadly my one which is faulty (it did fire up for about 3 days then stopped) has stopped. I'm praying for it to perform a Lazarus.
Sidehack, is there is a way to reset these? I see the reset pad?

I'd rather try something to fix it before throwing away?
Thank you

Ok. Sorry and thank you for your reply.
I bought it from HolyBitcoin.

Shame I'm in Australia. Freight is a killer.

Thanks once again.

Hi Sidehack,

I recently received a couple of these Gekko's which I'm using with BOINC's project - Bitcoin Utopia.
The are plugged into a new 7 port USB3 Superbpag hub (powered) The one which I think is faulty worked for about 4 hrs, then I noticed the purple light was stuck on and no green light?
I've hotpugged it. Tried different USB ports, and the only V change I made was up to 0.77V using a mutimeter.

The heatsink gets warm but not hot unlike the others whilst it's plugged in.
I tried adjusting the voltage down to .058V, no change.

I notice there's a reset on the miner. Is it possible this needs resetting?

My other 2 units are going great.
Thank you for your help!

Chooka03