GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[Guruclef]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

I do- I will post pic tomorrow

I hope you can post soon; I bet all of us from the compac solo club (who tried hard at cracking a block with a compac between all of us for months!) are waiting to see this historic screenshot

[bctmke]

That's great Kilo!   Glad to hear it.  It'll be awesome if you still have an image of it!

[notabeliever]

Are you sure its not NMC block

[traitrkng]

Anyone had information about future restock of this usbstick?I found a thread, but actually but I cannot find it

[zOU]

Hello

Sidehack won't make any more

You may find some at asicpuppy and bitshopper as they're the official reseller and may have some stock

[Jake36]

Anyone had information about future restock of this usbstick?I found a thread, but actually but I cannot find it

This one?  (under the group buy page)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1126705.0

[aarons6]

Anyone had information about future restock of this usbstick?I found a thread, but actually but I cannot find it

you can get some here
http://holybitcoin.com/product/gekkoscience-compac-bm1384-stickminer/

[WorkHorse78]

Anyone had information about future restock of this usbstick?I found a thread, but actually but I cannot find it

you can get some here
http://holybitcoin.com/product/gekkoscience-compac-bm1384-stickminer/

Seems to be sold-out everywhere...  If they are being sold the prices seem to be much higher than the initial $25USD.  holybitcoin.com is selling broken "DEAD" miners???

[WorkHorse78]

Anyone had information about future restock of this usbstick?I found a thread, but actually but I cannot find it

Europe: bitshopper.de has licensed the design and is selling in Europe.
https://www.bitshopper.de/shop/sha-256-miner/usb-miner-bitcoin/futurebit/

Good Luck!

[sidehack]

Well, the manufacturer sells them for $25. Everyone else has the added costs of shipping, and advertising, and some necessary markup to cover their own overhead. Lucky there are no additional middlemen between me and HolyBitcoin and CrazyGuy and such, or prices would be even worse. Stupid middlemen.

[HerbPean]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Wow that's awesome !!! Do you have a screenshot ?

[chiguireitor]

...

Seems to be sold-out everywhere...  If they are being sold the prices seem to be much higher than the initial $25USD.  holybitcoin.com is selling broken "DEAD" miners???

-removed for privacy-

[xZork]

I think my Compac may have seen it's last day A while back my compac stick got bent at the USB connector and I gently bent it back. It was running fine after that until a few days ago when it went Zombie on me. I unplugged it, and plugged it back in and windows didn't recognize it nor did cgminer. I unplugged and plugged back in several time and cgminer eventually detected it with "Gekko detect" but it wouldn't mine do I used zadig to reinstall the driver. It started mining away again and I thought all is well. Then came lastnight and it is now just an unknown device after I did a PC reboot.

Any ideas on how to get this guy running again and/or how much would it cost to have it fixed if the failure is from it being bent?

Thanks for reading.

[chiguireitor]

I think my Compac may have seen it's last day A while back my compac stick got bent at the USB connector and I gently bent it back. It was running fine after that until a few days ago when it went Zombie on me. I unplugged it, and plugged it back in and windows didn't recognize it nor did cgminer. I unplugged and plugged back in several time and cgminer eventually detected it with "Gekko detect" but it wouldn't mine do I used zadig to reinstall the driver. It started mining away again and I thought all is well. Then came lastnight and it is now just an unknown device after I did a PC reboot.

Any ideas on how to get this guy running again and/or how much would it cost to have it fixed if the failure is from it being bent?

Thanks for reading.

How bad was the bend? Maybe resolder the usb connector? it isn't that hard.

[Mikestang]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Nice, now don't you wish you were mining solo :p

I do- I will post pic tomorrow

So.... got the picture showing a block solve on the compac stick?  It's quite a claim to make and then let a week go by without supporting evidence.

[bctmke]

I'm running on a linux server (ubuntu 15.10) that is an old repurposed desktop with a 7-port superpbag hub using y-cables to three sticks.

Each stick is set to about .77 and I see this error with freqs from 250-350 (i don't touch the voltage in between).

The original compac stick has always run on this hub and it never has a problem.

Stick 2121 never initializes in cgminer anymore - the light goes white then green and then stays there.  Tried dropping it into a windows machine and no difference.  If i take my original stick (268) and toss it onto that same windows box - works great.
Stick 2125 generally plays nice but HAS gone off into the weeds once or twice.
Stick 268 has never had a problem on any machine / setting.

I have taken 2121 and put it directly into another USB port on the server and jacked the freq WAY down - nothing.  I've tossed it onto a windows machine - zadiag and all.  Cgminer never can detect it.

such a weird issue.

Quick follow up on this.  I sent the stick back to sidehack as none of the changes / testing I made showed it working in any manner (the other batch 2 stick that I have is happily hashing away).

He turned it around within a week and its on its way back to me.  He believes to have found an ASIC problem (if he remembers correctly since he did a number of repairs around the same time).  I encourage anyone who might be having issues to send them back to him and be patient.  He'll get the issue sorted and get it back to you.  Great service (not surprising at all).

I'll report back once I have it and have tested it.

[sidehack]

I encourage anyone who might be having issues to first look through the first couple pages of this support thread, try the search bar to see if info is posted by others about the same problem you're having, and then if you still can't find an answer ask me directly but be prepared to give detailed information, the acquisition of which might actually require you to learn some new things. And then if we can't get it going I'll tell you to send it back for repairs, and what the process for that is. Don't just start mailing me broken stuff. Unless I know it's coming and who it's from and why, I'll assume it's a birthday present and you won't get it back.

But yeah, the other day I fixed three sticks. One had a bad ASIC, one had a manufacturing defect (whoops), and three (from the same guy) looked like they had been overvolted on the USB jack which cooked a USB chip, two buck drivers and an ASIC. His was either the bad ASIC or the manufacture defect, but I'm betting it was the bad ASIC since the other one was actually a first-run (V0.5) stick and the part in question has been removed in the current batch (V0.6) design.

[JeffZwolle]

The closest I have ever been.
Just missing a factor 19.

[earlmo]

The closest I have ever been.
Just missing a factor 19.

Just one zero (and some change) shy.  Very nice.  Still waiting for my first billion.

.earl

[hedgy73]

The closest I have ever been.
Just missing a factor 19.

Very nice . Well and truly beats my best share of 1 billion a few months ago.