GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[Biodom]

There's also using a networked computer with SSH to access cgminer in a local screen session.

^^^that is certainly better and NO cost, but as I already have three hubs, each with pi's and also other people who use the same PC, it is simpler (and quicker) to just click the button to briefly check if everything is fine 

[AJRGale]

Yeah no worries, I just PMd him. Once he replies Ill get him to check the thread. As far as quantity goes, for now I wanted 2. But if we weren't to order for a few weeks I may get as many as 6 or so.

AJRGale did the Australia group buy but I'm not sure if he has any left to hand out.

Just got back to Rokz, since 2 people haven't piped up about the ones they've ordered I think I can restock them and cater for Rokz. Worst case is, they demand I get them one, I'll just give them one or 2 of mine, or get them something equivalent.

[Biodom]

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

[hurricandave]

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

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[philipma1957]

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

yes but in my case on really high quality hubs.

a cavat I had 4 quality windows pc's and 2 good mac minis with vmware fusion windows

None of these setups worked really well .

So I used 1 of the pc's  with linux  and it has been close to perfect.

I ran 20 sticks at freq 300 on my 49 port eyeboot hub.

I ran 16 sticks at freq 350 on my 19 port eyeboot hub.

So I have found that all of my windows builds could not do it correctly  some did 4 sticks and the fifth dropped off.  If you look at these threads you will see my posts and how I got it fixed with a linux build

[Biodom]

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

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thanks, I meant this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L2LK164

I don't see an upright 10-12 slot Plugable on Amazon-must be an earlier product.

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

yes but in my case on really high quality hubs.

a caveat I had 4 quality windows pc's and 2 good mac minis with vmware fusion windows

None of these setups worked really well .

So I used 1 of the pc's  with linux  and it has been close to perfect.

I ran 20 sticks at freq 300 on my 49 port eyeboot hub.

I ran 16 sticks at freq 350 on my 19 port eyeboot hub.

So I have found that all of my windows builds could not do it correctly  some did 4 sticks and the fifth dropped off.  If you look at these threads you will see my posts and how I got it fixed with a linux build

thanks, Philip
i have the ubuntu 15.10 built on my dual boot PC now after many tries fighting the stupid uefi and secure boot of win 8.1.
Anker works on it (Ubuntu) just fine.
that 20 slot eyeboot looks groovy, but I already have 2 superbpag's and one Anker, so spending another $150 $75 on eyeboot...I should have bought it in the beginning...
My significant other is competing with me on PC use and periodically switches off my "linux" stick since that PC is in her office and she can't handle "the other system" as she calls it...oh, well...
I will probably buy another PC just for Linux/sticks...this will fix it.

[Falken Hawke]

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.

[drew_ii]

For Clarification...
Morguk, Biodom told me, who was apparently told by that other kind member.  Information flows nicely

[Morguk]

For Clarification...
Morguk, Biodom told me, who was apparently told by that other kind member.  Information flows nicely

Ah right, thanks Biodom and friends!

[Jake36]

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.

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.

[Jake36]

Darn it, the right 70W Superbpag usb 3.0 is now unavailable from Amazon.
Can usb 2.0 slots actually handle higher current than 0.4A?
That said, did anybody used Plugable 2.0 powered hub to run sticks with or without Y cables with at least the default speed?

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thanks, I meant this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L2LK164

I don't see an upright 10-12 slot Plugable on Amazon-must be an earlier product.

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Yea, I've got one of those (the 7 port 60W ones) and it will do 4 stick at 175MHz (no Y cables (but that's kind of pushing it)). Had it before going with the Superbpag one.

[Falken Hawke]

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.

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.

I'm using a Superbpag hub.  I've checked on different ports on the hub and the other four Compacs have normal indications.

[AJRGale]

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.

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!

Well, I'll attempt to recreate the "issue" and I'll get another screen-cap. I thought it was funny watching the little thing pulling 150GHs, I was waiting for smoke to bellow out!

Since the thing is sitting on a EEEPC701, to much voltage pulled would shut the system down, not make it pop a fuse.. I can see the green light dropping intensity when voltage starts getting pulled..

the best I got out of it.. pot to the max, 380Mhz burning the eeepc701's volt regs!

[Jake36]

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.

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.

I'm using a Superbpag hub.  I've checked on different ports on the hub and the other four Compacs have normal indications.

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.

[Biodom]

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.

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.

I'm using a Superbpag hub.  I've checked on different ports on the hub and the other four Compacs have normal indications.

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.

[Biodom]

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.

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!

Well, I'll attempt to recreate the "issue" and I'll get another screen-cap. I thought it was funny watching the little thing pulling 150GHs, I was waiting for smoke to bellow out!

Since the thing is sitting on a EEEPC701, to much voltage pulled would shut the system down, not make it pop a fuse.. I can see the green light dropping intensity when voltage starts getting pulled..

the best I got out of it.. pot to the max, 380Mhz burning the eeepc701's volt regs!

Those GH are "not real" just by looking at WU-probably just controller confusion. Even at 23Gh/s WU should be above 330.

[Falken Hawke]

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.

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.

I'm using a Superbpag hub.  I've checked on different ports on the hub and the other four Compacs have normal indications.

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.

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.

Thank you for all the responses.

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.

[daimen200]

How can I overclock to 400mhz?

[zOU]

How can I overclock to 400mhz?

Read 71 pages (or use the search field at the top of the page )

- good power
- properly set vcore
- optimised cooling (stock is not enough)

[AJRGale]

Those GH are "not real" just by looking at WU-probably just controller confusion. Even at 23Gh/s WU should be above 330.

oh i know, it seems to be the controller using all the data from the asic (or the asic just spitting everything, forgetting to filter out the bad hashes, or out of sync with its cores, mixing up the data), and just giving the software whatever it gets.. and that was only running for about 3 minutes without a fan to get that result, since mine is overclocked and all that..