I tried updating the firmware on 6 of my E9s and all of them fail in the same way. Can anyone provide tips on how to get the firmware to upgrade?

I try to upload the firmware referenced a few posts ago and when I hit upload this is all that happens on any of my machines:

Hardware error just happen and are a totally normal part of mining. It is not uncommon to see one board with a bunch more than another, it might have a weak component somewhere. Unless you are seeing 10-100x the errors on one board versus the others I really wouldnt worry about it too much. In the end, there is literally nothing you can do to fix it unless maybe you have a firmware that allows you to underclock the boards.

Spoke with some well respected crypto people based out of Japan, they confirmed this company is 100% full of shit. They will never bring a 7nm miner to the table.

There are none. It is simply too old and outdated to be useful anywhere.

That is 100% a Windows limit. There is a hard limit of 8 cards from a single manufacturer in Windows.


Also, why would you want to build this kind of rig? This way you lose 19 cards worth of hash power when there is a crash or some other problem. If you can afford that many GPUs you should be putting them in batches of 6 at max or you will suffer stability problems.

My 6x 1070 rig has a personal best MINER uptime of 78 days without a single hiccup.

My 13x 1070 rig has never made it past 10 days without the miner crapping out or the system having problems.

You lose so much money in downtime when you overcomplicate your installs like this. As it is a 6 card rig has 30 failure points.

So instead of losing 6 cards when a rig crashes you lose 16.....ill pass.

Unless you are converting those coins the moment they are mined bouncing around to a bunch of different algos is just a waste of time. The best way to do it is to pick a coin you will hold onto for a while and mine that while ignoring the day to day fluctuation of the price unless something major happens

This is an ancient hardware setup running an old AMD dual core processor. You might just not have enough resources with this ancient hardware to make use of more than 2 cards. Also mixing ATi and Nvidia is asking for extra headaches.

You have pretty much the best mining board ever put to market. I have never had a problem running 6 GPUs on this board.

Also if the chip is 25% more efficient than the current best in class S9 you would think they would be plastering advertisements whereever they could. They could completely take over the bitcoin hardware game if these machiens were legit.

There is no fix that you can do yourself. Just be glad the board still hashes. The repair of something like this out of warranty is not cheap.

Whats interesting is you say the AUC has a green light. This green light denotes connectivity yet when you look at your status page, the AUC itself isnt even registering.

Before you mess with the miner, try to get the AUC dongle read by the controller. Thats the first step before even messing with the Avalon unit itself.

The red circle below is where the AUC's should show up.

The miner looks like a photoshopped version of a cooler master micro itx case. Even the sticker on the fan looks identical.

I vote scam.

I think this is a useless thread because it has been asked over and over already.

Also, there is no S10 coming.

China and Taiwan are the same thing. PRC owns Taiwan, just ask them.

Things are always possible when you throw enough money at them. You will, however, not be able to go to the foundry and ask them to give you another companies IP.

Heres some troubleshooting tips:

Miner LED:

Blue = hashing normally
red = other fatal error
yellow/amber = idle

Also on the main page of your Avalon change the view to the advanced version. This is the view you should use, the other is useless. Once in the advanced view browse to the CGMiner Status page.
This will show you exactly what is going on. In the bottom right corner of the Device Status list is a section labeled PG. These are the error codes that will help you diagnose issues.

Plug the error code into this page to view the error readout:

https://canaan.io/downloads/query_a7_ec_status.html

Here is the complete list of error codes:

https://github.com/Canaan-Creative/avalon7-docs/wiki/AvalonMiner-error-code

Of note, these codes are additive. If you have an error code 4 + an error code 8 it will show as error code 12.


Hope this helps!

You need to find a dedicated crypto datacenter. Hosting in a 'real' datacenter is not feasible due to the high costs involved.

You can static your local IP to 192.168.0.2 on your computer to access the miners without going out and buying a new piece of hardware.

You should be fine if you can warm the units up before starting. Just remember that it might take a while to passively heat the units up if they were offline for an extended period of time. The heatsinks will retain cold just like they do heat.