GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[justchill]

Wow that's one very big fan blowing on your sticks
Great to see!

Cool setup Zou!

I have lost interest a bit, got my first payment from the pool: 0,40 € in 8 days or so..

Still have to try overclocking the gekko's.

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[Mikestang]

Still have to try overclocking the gekko's.

That's a big part of the fun of these little sticks.  Right now I have 3 running at 262 mHz, and I have one more at 362 mHz.  It's fun to tweak them a little from time to time.

[ZedZedNova]

Welp, got my GekkoScience Compac USB (BTC dust) miner today. Seems to be working OK. Chugging along at 150 MHz and ~8.5GH/s. Easy to install and get running.

I'm running cgminer downloaded, built and installed using Novak's instructions in message 18 on this thread. cgminer is running on a Mac Mini (mid 2011) which is running El Capitan (v10.11.4); I have xCode and xCode command-line tools installed as well as homebrew to manage packages. I only needed to load automake and libtools to complete the build environment. With those loaded the build went smoothly and test runs without the miner looked good last night.

I've not dug out my meter to measure the voltage to see where it is now so I'll leave it running at 150 MHz until I can measure the core voltage.

Cheers,

- zed

[armedmilitia]

I was taking apart a broken laptop, and when I saw the CPU heatsink I could not resist.


It stays pretty cool at 325Mhz.  

[zOU]

love it !

Great idea !

makes me think I have a lenovo W510 apart.... :p

[ZedZedNova]

Turned up the voltage earlier today and now I'm able to run 325MHz @ ~17.5GH/s according to cgminer.

Cheers,

- zed

[drew_ii]

Anyone familiar with the USB 3.0 pins and how to ramp the DCV?  USB 2 has only four wires, but my little 2.0 unpowered bit the dust (tiny wires, no physical support, they broke) so I bought a new 3.0 unpowered so that the ports themselves could handle higher amps - but I crack her open and while the connections are kept in place by hot glue (yay) - there are like 11 pin holes on the bottom, and purple yellow blue wires too, two thick black wires for ground it appears.  Anyone have a hint as to where to move from here?  Is it as straight forward as the others, cut the red to prevent backfeed, solder new leads to red and ground, then run individual wires to hot pins for the ports? 

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

https://i.imgur.com/iUsMYM9.jpg


Still no pics?  Forever n00b. (sadpandaface)

[zOU]

Have you tried:

https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+wiring

[drew_ii]

Have you tried:

https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+wiring

lmgtfy eh? hehe yes i felt about as dumb when i read the reply - touche'.  My concern at this point would be the twin black thick wires as compared to the singular thinner power lead.  I can MM the +5 and Ground pins with minimal difficulty.

<--- rightfully a noob!

[drew_ii]

Have you tried:

https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+wiring

lmgtfy eh? hehe yes i felt about as dumb when i read the reply - touche'.  My concern at this point would be the twin black thick wires as compared to the singular thinner power lead.  I can MM the +5 and Ground pins with minimal difficulty.

<--- rightfully a noob!

Frankenhub....

http://imgur.com/iHcs0aG

IS ALIVE!

http://imgur.com/zu5MtWy


One of these days the damned pictures will post gosh durnit - Haven't hooked her up to my Pi yet, but the +5VDC has been cut on the inbound line, and is only powered by the soldered leads.  Continuity testing confirms that all joints are isolated and continuous with original +5VDC input solder point, and no continuity between any other non-power solder joints, there are no bridges.

[hurricandave]

Have you tried:

https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+wiring

lmgtfy eh? hehe yes i felt about as dumb when i read the reply - touche'.  My concern at this point would be the twin black thick wires as compared to the singular thinner power lead.  I can MM the +5 and Ground pins with minimal difficulty.

<--- rightfully a noob!

Frankenhub....



IS ALIVE!



Use the BBCode for Message Boards and Forums. The difference is the small letters img at the start the address includes i. before imgur  and it adds .jpg to the end which is what your picture posts have been missing.



One of these days the damned pictures will post gosh durnit - Haven't hooked her up to my Pi yet, but the +5VDC has been cut on the inbound line, and is only powered by the soldered leads.  Continuity testing confirms that all joints are isolated and continuous with original +5VDC input solder point, and no continuity between any other non-power solder joints, there are no bridges.

[drew_ii]

[i m g]https://i.imgur.com/zu5MtWy.jpg[/i m g]

Use the BBCode for Message Boards and Forums. The difference is the small letters img at the start the address includes i. before imgur  and it adds .jpg to the end which is what your picture posts have been missing.

Right, got it now!  Boards - not my thing.  Thanks HD!

[ammi84]

Hey guys,

we started a new project with the gekkoscience sticks:

gekkorun.de
Bestshare-Fun-Run-Competition

based on the famous antrun.de :-)

Be a part of it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1452817.0

C ya soon :-)

[kupan787]

Received mine a few weeks ago. Both have been running fine connected to a powered USB hub, humming along at 200 MHz with a fan. Yesterday I rebooted my raspberry pi, and now one of them won't seem to start hashing, no matter the frequency I specify. It just keeps cycling into failure. The other one is fine, and works with no issues.

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-04-30 19:09:20.472]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
 A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 Connected to stratum.XXXXXX.XXX diff 1.02K with stratum as user XXXXXX
 Block: 293f16aa...  Diff:179G  Started: [19:09:20.473]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 1: COMPAC 10002743: 150MHz                  |  0.000 /  0.000h/s WU:0.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2016-04-30 19:09:17.980] Started cgminer 4.9.2
 [2016-04-30 19:09:19.468] Probing for an alive pool
 [2016-04-30 19:09:19.631] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1024
 [2016-04-30 19:09:20.473] Network diff set to 179G
 [2016-04-30 19:09:31.166] COMPAC 0: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
 [2016-04-30 19:09:31.167] COMPAC 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2016-04-30 19:10:31.154] COMPAC 0: Device failed to respond to restart
 [2016-04-30 19:10:31.155] COMPAC 0 failure, disabling!
 [2016-04-30 19:10:34.181] Hotplug: Gekko added COMPAC 1
 [2016-04-30 19:10:45.116] COMPAC 1: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
 [2016-04-30 19:10:45.117] COMPAC 1 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS

I've tried changing the voltage, switching USB reports, and even plugging into a different device (OS X laptop), and this one just never gets going. The light is green, just not sure how to get it going again.

Any suggestions?

[aarons6]

Received mine a few weeks ago. Both have been running fine connected to a powered USB hub, humming along at 200 MHz with a fan. Yesterday I rebooted my raspberry pi, and now one of them won't seem to start hashing, no matter the frequency I specify. It just keeps cycling into failure. The other one is fine, and works with no issues.

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-04-30 19:09:20.472]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
 A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 Connected to stratum.XXXXXX.XXX diff 1.02K with stratum as user XXXXXX
 Block: 293f16aa...  Diff:179G  Started: [19:09:20.473]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 1: COMPAC 10002743: 150MHz                  |  0.000 /  0.000h/s WU:0.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2016-04-30 19:09:17.980] Started cgminer 4.9.2
 [2016-04-30 19:09:19.468] Probing for an alive pool
 [2016-04-30 19:09:19.631] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1024
 [2016-04-30 19:09:20.473] Network diff set to 179G
 [2016-04-30 19:09:31.166] COMPAC 0: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
 [2016-04-30 19:09:31.167] COMPAC 0 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
 [2016-04-30 19:10:31.154] COMPAC 0: Device failed to respond to restart
 [2016-04-30 19:10:31.155] COMPAC 0 failure, disabling!
 [2016-04-30 19:10:34.181] Hotplug: Gekko added COMPAC 1
 [2016-04-30 19:10:45.116] COMPAC 1: No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
 [2016-04-30 19:10:45.117] COMPAC 1 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS

I've tried changing the voltage, switching USB reports, and even plugging into a different device (OS X laptop), and this one just never gets going. The light is green, just not sure how to get it going again.

Any suggestions?

its your hub.. at 200M you are right at the .9A most hubs can put out..
try going down to 196.88

[kupan787]

its your hub.. at 200M you are right at the .9A most hubs can put out..
try going down to 196.88

Sorry, I should have mentioned. Now that I am troubleshooting, I'm running at 125mhz, just to se if it'll perk up. Doesn't matter, on the hub or direct connected to A PC, it just want start hashing.

The other unit runs fine, at 200 MHz still. Both were running for weeks with no issues until the reboot.

[vh]

on a slow, steady mission to get the compac onto mainline cgminer. 
i've started the ball rolling again.

looking for volunteer or two to confirm base functionally is preserved since i'm limited on devices at the moment.

https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git
--enable-icarus

i have it running on one compac, looking for a few more scenarios:

1) successfully running multiple compac
2) successfully running compac + icarus (non-compac : preferably a U3)
3) other combination

(PM me a screenshot if available)

[sidehack]

I'll see about SSHing into the test machine at the shop. It's currently running several test Compacs, one Bitshopper stick and a U2. Give me a bit to set things up and I'll let you know what happens.

[EDIT] Took a bit to compile, I forgot the ./autogen.sh part and had to double back through some errors. Anyways, I can see that it's detecting Compacs and the U2, but it's not detecting all the Compacs. I have nine plugged in; five run on cgminer-gekko without issue, but only four were detected in yours. Of course I can't tell which four because only the useless part of the serial number ID is displayed, instead of the full length or just the digits that are actually in use. I'll do some playing when I'm out at the shop tomorrow and see what I can find out.

[Jake36]

its your hub.. at 200M you are right at the .9A most hubs can put out..
try going down to 196.88

Sorry, I should have mentioned. Now that I am troubleshooting, I'm running at 125mhz, just to se if it'll perk up. Doesn't matter, on the hub or direct connected to A PC, it just want start hashing.

The other unit runs fine, at 200 MHz still. Both were running for weeks with no issues until the reboot.

Try plugging the one in after cgminer is running (hot plugging it).

[kupan787]

its your hub.. at 200M you are right at the .9A most hubs can put out..
try going down to 196.88

Sorry, I should have mentioned. Now that I am troubleshooting, I'm running at 125mhz, just to se if it'll perk up. Doesn't matter, on the hub or direct connected to A PC, it just want start hashing.

The other unit runs fine, at 200 MHz still. Both were running for weeks with no issues until the reboot.

Try plugging the one in after cgminer is running (hot plugging it).

Tried that just now. Tried starting with nothing plugged in, and then plugging in the stick, but got the same error (No valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset). Tried starting with the stick in, and after it failed, tried unplugging and replugging. No luck.

I'm going to try compiling VH's versions of cgminer, and see if that shows anything different.

Is there anyway to check/debug whats going on?