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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 13, 2014, 12:33:52 AM
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When you start the miner, does the power supply fan start and stop or does it continue to spin? I've got the 850 slaved to the 1000 with this particular model it has a low noise mode and the fan doesn't kick on until there is significant load. That said neither fan has ever kicked on (but there aren't automatically expected too) |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 11:50:40 PM
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Yeah I'll get some pics here in a moment.
I've ran the pi with the directly to a monitor with with the hdmi. I don't know what the raspberry should look like. everything looked of to me.
It says it's looking for boards at address what ever but doesn't identify them, then when I try to do the killall cgminer it says no process killed. So I don't know that it's loading up correctly. Then it just keeps showing the ip address assigned and 0.00 GH/s over and over and over and over and over. unless I tell it to kill python then it stops.
BRB I'll get the photos.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 11:37:23 PM
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weve been playing around with mine all day pretty much. i deffinatley need 2 new cards sending out. ive paid for 520ghs and im getting 250ghs. there are no more settings to try with the other 2 cards.
timmyd, have you tried simply leaving the 2 other cards in to simply "warm up". I know it sounds stupid, but worth a try. Good luck! Yes dude the other 2 boards will run for like 1 min. one gets upto 190ghs and the other 170ghs and then chip failures happen and the both eventually die off and shut down.  You're having voltage issues similar to James and Reggie, what power supply are you using? Perhaps you can address the issue I posted here earlier. I would appreciate it. It doesn't seem to be recognizing the cards at all and says no a-1 chip chain found. that is for every board. I posted t a few pages back. Also here is what was on my r pi card sd card https://app.box.com/amtrpisdcard |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 11:33:01 PM
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weve been playing around with mine all day pretty much. i deffinatley need 2 new cards sending out. ive paid for 520ghs and im getting 250ghs. there are no more settings to try with the other 2 cards.
timmyd, have you tried simply leaving the 2 other cards in to simply "warm up". I know it sounds stupid, but worth a try. Good luck! Yes dude the other 2 boards will run for like 1 min. one gets upto 190ghs and the other 170ghs and then chip failures happen and the both eventually die off and shut down. You're having voltage issues similar to James and Reggie, what power supply are you using? Perhaps you can address the issue I posted here earlier. I would appreciate it. It doesn't seem to be recognizing the cards at all and says no a-1 chip chain found. that is for every board. I posted t a few pages back. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 08:47:31 PM
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I wonder if there is another way to hook up the boards not using their back plane or main board.
It looks like it's recognizing the the backplane as a 5 port usb device according to the system log.
Maybe someone a little more handy can figure out a work around. Or come up with some better software. with all the A1 chips out now someone has to have something compatible out there. ( I would hope)
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 06:50:56 PM
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Josh gave me his number and told me to call him if I needed any help with the miner. I've called and he said he'd get a video up on friday of how to assemble, obviously it didn't happen. He apologized for what he said was obviously unacceptable.
I just sent him the following text:
Hey man, sorry to keep bothering you. Especially on a Saturday as I know you guys are working through the weekend.
When I turn on the pi it starts looking for boards via some address but fails to find then. Then when I try to do killall cgminer it says no process killed like it didn't even run.
I don't know if this is a connection issue or a firmware issue. But there needs to be more communication on this. Apologizing is all well and good, but meaningless if not backed up with action.
Even if you guys can shoot a quick tutorial via your phones it would go a long way toward regaining people's trust.
Will update if I get a response. I'd call but with my bronchitis when I speak I go into terrible coughing fits. and I really don't want to have this conversation over a relay service
type cgminer -DT it will check across cards and give you the active cores per card. if you use putty to interface you can scroll through the different cards. there will be alot of info that comes up but all your interested in is something that says 8 chipx 255 active cores or similar. not the bit that says chip 1-8 32 active cores, should be right at the bottom of the paragraphs. if your cards register 256 cores i believe they all working right. this will be tepeated 3-5x depending how many cards you have. the killall cgminer and it saying no process killed is because its not running on boot up to make it run type cgminer input your pool details and away it goes. When I type cgminer -dt it then says command line options set a device that doesn't exist. When I type cgminer it says : checking board 2... failed to write to fdesc -1: Bad file descriptor No A1 Chip-Chain detected SPI '/dev/spidev0.0' :mode 1, bits 8, speed 2000000 This repeats through cards 3 and 4 then says: All devices disabled cannot mine. when I putty in and do it it flashes up on the screen quicker that I can read it then goes away, can't scroll to it at all. so I did a quick print screen and caught this: http://s3.photobucket.com/user/rikkhaos/media/Untitled.png.html |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 06:41:15 PM
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Well i got my corsair rm1000 today and set up the miner. results are 1 card runs at 250ghs and the other 2 do not hash at all. they have multiple chips that are running less than 26cores and eventually pack in. im in the uk Are they detected by pi but just aren't hashing, or are they not detected at all? |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 06:33:36 PM
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Josh gave me his number and told me to call him if I needed any help with the miner. I've called and he said he'd get a video up on friday of how to assemble, obviously it didn't happen. He apologized for what he said was obviously unacceptable.
I just sent him the following text:
Hey man, sorry to keep bothering you. Especially on a Saturday as I know you guys are working through the weekend.
When I turn on the pi it starts looking for boards via some address but fails to find then. Then when I try to do killall cgminer it says no process killed like it didn't even run.
I don't know if this is a connection issue or a firmware issue. But there needs to be more communication on this. Apologizing is all well and good, but meaningless if not backed up with action.
Even if you guys can shoot a quick tutorial via your phones it would go a long way toward regaining people's trust.
Will update if I get a response. I'd call but with my bronchitis when I speak I go into terrible coughing fits. and I really don't want to have this conversation over a relay service
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 01:46:14 PM
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You are going the kit route right?
If so let me know if you get any documentation with it for set up. Also if it has any issues locating hashing modules. mine seems to not be finding them where they are looking for them and as I can't kill cgminer I'm not sure it's even launching. I can kill python though.
Yea I went the kit route. I will make a point of asking for documentation on the device. If anything I will make a PDF and post it (with their permission). Might help them some too. And it doesn't take me much time to do that as I would be doing it anyway. This is B.S.! Even some rudimentary manual or some email or post here on how to hook this up should be made available! This is like amateur hour in every aspect. Whatever the case I am pretty much offering free help for them by posting up that manual. Mostly at this point doing what I can to help the rest of us out. Getting the manual and some info on how to get these things working right would be a huge help. I will def make a separate post for this tho cause putting it in here its just gonna get lost. good call on a separate post, when you are picking it up ask them to post the firmware online. I've got it hooked up the only way it could be hooked up with the materials provided ( and an extra ethernet cable I had laying around) I've got power going to the backplane. SO either I'm missing something so basic that I'm overlooking it, or I've got some sort of faulty equipment. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 12:45:22 PM
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Oh this is not a good thing. Damn for all that trouble I may as well go pick mine up. Im close enough that I can. We welcome pickups, if you'd like we can change your status to pickup and we can schedule a time to pick it up. If you welcome pick ups please email me with a reply on this. I sent 2 separate emails requesting this. I can go today just about any time really since you are shipping out miners anyway. Honestly it would be simpler to just pick these things up and have them arrive intact. As I am doing a review on it would not be a good thing for you to have the unboxing show these things in pieces. As I did arrange originally to pick up my order anyway, this is not anything lost here. But I would like the courtesy of a reply at this point to make the arrangements for pick up. You are going the kit route right? If so let me know if you get any documentation with it for set up. Also if it has any issues locating hashing modules. mine seems to not be finding them where they are looking for them and as I can't kill cgminer I'm not sure it's even launching. I can kill python though. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 12:07:12 PM
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AMT,
I have not received new backplanes from you. You said they shipped to me, However; I doubt they would take over 5 days to get here, much less 2 days. What is the status on this?
STATUS UPDATE on mining: At my facility, I have the 1500W plugged into a singular 20A circuit. However, even with my patchwork backplane, it is still only allowing 1-2 CARDS to be detected at 200-300 GH/s. The others show 0 GH/s.
Nearly two weeks INOP now. Much less, I cannot get both miners to work on separate (isolated) 20 A circuits. What is my next step?
~Casey
Did your setup automatically detect the modules? Mine isn't detecting anything. When I try to do killall cgminer it says no process killed so I don't even think it's starting up properly. Anyone know how I'd manually launch cgminer? if that is the case? |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 10:38:31 AM
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it's a fascinating process isn't it. It's kinda like watching a car accident. You don't want to watch but you keep turning your head towards the accident because it is both horrible and mesmerizing. I keep coming back here to read the posts, the anger, the coolness of some people, the unparalleled incapacity to communicate properly.
The other reason I keep coming back is because, contrary rational considerations, I keep hoping they will reveal their new policy on refunds. They rpomised this a week ago (saying they would publish it that day) and still crickets chirping.
Hey AMT_, how's about an answer? Where's the money?
Why would you want a refund when you can get a miner or kit that ships all smashed up, or fails to hash? isn't that better? |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 07:35:08 AM
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Just noticed the Subject Line of the first email is:
“Your AMT order #1243”
But the order number of the website and email is #1244?
hmm... maybe a mix up with orders and not BTC.
I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. They probably have your info on a sticky note somewhere in Josh's trunk.  (j.k.) You know damn well they don't do anything as professional as keep notes. |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 04:32:09 AM
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I suggest anyone close enough go pick theirs up.
I can tell the boards are getting power because I can feel the heat from the chips (not on the larger aluminum heat sink though) But the copper point up off the chip. So I think there is just a connection error somewhere in the process.
I'm powering two cards the fans and the backplane with the corsair rm 850W and then I'm powering 3 cards and the mainboard with corsair rm 1000w.
I just don't know why it's not recognizing the hashing modules.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Official Thread: AMT
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on: April 12, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
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It wasn't even a box, it was cardboard taped together.
Yes it seems fedex did a number on that one. We'll go ahead and schedule a pickup to RMA that miner and have another back to you as soon as we receive it. This is the first instance of a 1.2Th arriving like that, surprised the foam protection on the sides didn't keep it safe like all the other miners shipped. We'll arrange for an RMA pickup for Monday and have a new miner back to you in a jiffy. Thanks. I have a similar damage package. Not only is the package damaged by the components are damaged. One fan completely destroyed. Metal rack all bent up. Two boards appear to have their power connectors destroyed. One board appears to be bent. Am I supposed to send this all back? Why did you folks not ship this unit in a proper package? This is so upsetting. I wait for a unit that is delayed for over a month and I get this shoddy packaging! I can't believe they skimped on packaging for something that cost $6,000. This is ridiculous. I've shipped lots of hardware and you need to have a lot of foam and bubble wrap. AMT shipped the unit with ZERO bubble wrap or foam, they just had paper to fill up some space. Otherwise, there was zero padding. Now I get a damaged system! It is so dumb of them to cut corners on the packaging! No paper in mine just bubble wrap. I can't get it up and running and I'm starting to think the components might have been damaged during shipping. The heavy cage wa son top of the pie and main board as well as the back plane. |
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