er...wat?

I sure don't see any mini-PCIe sockets in the photos of that board on newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130235

I've never heard of an extender cable for mini-PCIe...

Edit: Do you mean that the x1 slots are not detecting your cards?

Maybe you need to jumper A1 to B17:




Source: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42

Wow, nice pictures.  I wish I'd been the guy to do it, but I instead just plugged mine in first thing.

I think it's a shame how some ppl are failing to appreciate the design that went into the Avalon cases, and are planning to drill them full of holes, or get rid of the case completely.  I can only hope that they'll sell what's left of the Avalon to me after they kill it.

...annnnd it's paid for itself, USD-wise.  33 BTC earned in just 91 hours.   

A bit more to go to break-even BTC-wise yet.

Just cgminer.

System --> Startup --> cgminer --> Restart

A lot quieter than the GPU miner that sits near it.  It's making a bit more noise not that I have it running at 300MHz.  Definitely louder than a normal desktop PC.

A few minutes ago it freaked out and ran the fans on full blast for a bit a few times.  Looking at the status page shows crazy values for the temp and fan readings:

https://i.imgur.com/E1FbMJ1.png

Then it stopped hashing.  I restarted cgminer and all is well again for now.

I stood mine up vertically with the PS at the top, desktop PC style.

https://i.imgur.com/ray5NRA.jpg

It runs very cool and quiet.  The case is always cool to the touch, and the air coming out the back is not very warm.  The warmest air is what comes out of the power supply.  Temp3 is consistently reported at 42c.

I have not had to use it yet, but what you see behind the Avalon is a Web Power Switch.  Should the Avalon need to be power-cycled, I can just access the WPS (remotely if need be) and have it do it.  If need be, the WPS can even be configured to ping the Avalon itself and automatically power-cycle it if it becomes unresponsive.

All in all a pretty handy gadget:

http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html

It could easily pay for itself in just one or two incidents.

Edit: Actually, I just realized I've always been feeling the right side of the case.  Touching the left side now where the modules anchor to the case, it's quite warm.  I guess it's dissipating through the case like it's meant to.

I might be interested in selling kits to build these sort of frames.  You'd get all the pieces pre-cut and pre-drilled, and a bag of fastener hardware.  Everything you need, just some assembly required.  That way it can ship in a nice compact tube mailer.

Do you know what you might pay for such a thing?  If there's enough interest I may start offering these.

Me too.

I'm not sure how sound a strategy this is.

If I hadn't let my rig sit broken through last spring/summer in the $4-6 times, I'd be sitting pretty right now.

Speculation of course...

OMG swarf.

I'll buy the Avalon off you after you fry it.   

Wow.  You must be pretty angry opentoe.

I'm not.

I have a small personal interest in BFL's success.  I ordered 2 Jalapeños and a Little Single in February.  I'm not going to cancel my order and ask for a refund.  I consider it a sunk cost.

I believe BFL is really trying to ship the products they've been promising us.  The last thing they need is to have the proverbial rug pulled out from under them.

I also have a larger nonpersonal interest in BFL's success: Diversity.  We need more ASIC makers.  If Avalon ends up the only one standing when it comes to mining ASICs you can actually buy and hold in your hand, I think Bitcoin is in trouble.  "Power in the people" you say?  I agree.

I'm going to go ahead and extend this offer now: Josh, if you feel like BFL is is trouble and you're not able to make the chips/boards/miners work, please, let me come and help you guys.  I can contribute quite a variety of technical and nontechnical skills.  My price is only one Single per week worked.  (Obviously if the project fails I lose too and get nothing.)  I will sign NDAs.

I made this same offer to Tom, but he did not accept.  Don't go out like that.

I'm sorry for abandoning this thread.  Thanks iambaboon for taking over the list.

Please continue discussion in the new thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152980.0

Watch out ppl.  Notice the account creation date.

He's been PMing me saying he has an Icarus for sale, and not responding to my PM questions.

He sent me a paypal invoice for it earlier today, but when I PM'd asking for a pic of the Icarus, I got no response.

Now tonight he posts this here...

Edit: Also notice the similarities to this one that got me the other week: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146613.0

Did you know about burnbit.com?

It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does.  It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.

It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.

I have a ref design 5870 that I need to replace the fan on (and remove the shroud to do so), and the screw heads are all stripped.  I'll probably be drilling them out.

Once I do, I'll need replacement screws to put it back together.

Does anyone have a set they wanna sell me?  I'll offer 0.05 BTC for a set shipped to me in the US (US seller preferred).

PM me.

Looks like I had the 20130218 build.  I flashed it to 20130225 a few minutes ago.  I like the new cgminer status page.

What are the "-32" firmware builds?

Received mine Tuesday.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137534.msg1617293#msg1617293

How can I tell what firmware version I'm running?

lol, bitponzi!

You know, I'm OK with it, so long as they don't plan to continue operating like that forever.

Developing an ASIC is an enormously difficult and expensive job, and I'm glad to help contribute to the effort, in exchange for a share of the sweet rewards.

I got my batch 1 Avalon yesterday, and am looking forward to delivery of my batch 2.

Interesting.  I never knew that.

I guess this guy is collecting the stipend: https://i.imgur.com/3BYOBqj.jpg