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hi - i need some help please. every time i start cgminer it goes over with the following crash in Fault Module Name: libpdcurses.dll (see image); i'm stumped, this happens when the stick is plugged in or not. i'm trying it on a dell laptop that just has old ATI Radeon Express graphics and i've tried re-sizing the command prompt window, but to no avail... anyone have any ideas please? thanks sorry if the image appears as a link, can't figure out how to post one in-line... http://www.keggler.talktalk.net/Images/IMG_0642.JPG |
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May 17, 2016, 01:40:20 AM |
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Hello all! New to the forums and this Bitcoin adventure and I have to say these miners are great! Up and running in no time with all of your help. Needed something new to tinker with and what a great choice  First on a win 7 box with bfgminer and then cgminer-gekko, now running on a pi with minera/cgminer-gekko. Had them burning along at 400mhz on the win 7 box and now 368mhz on the pi with a cool 20gh. Thanks sidehack and novak for all your hard work  |
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philipma1957
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May 17, 2016, 02:42:58 AM |
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Great, now just pick a different pool to mine at, do not support spv mining or empty blocks. agreed! and have some fun with it, your honestly gonna bring in like 10,000 satoshi a day or less there at f2pool  check out http://mining.securepayment.cc/ if you ever wanna play some solo games . (Phil has hit a peercoin block there with his sticks) or maybe a multipool? you can get paid in some cool coins! if you can get powered hub your pic looks like good setup for easy 15-18 gh/s mine are at 290mh/z 16.5gh/s no errors with powered hub either way, congrats on STICKIN to mining ;p haha I hit a peercoin block with a 850 million share. My best share ever was 2.5 billion It was for btc. I hit 5 peercoin blocks 1 orphan. the good one on feb 21 this year was with the compac sticks. an 850 mill share. the other four were with a pair of avalon 6's http://ppcoin.securepayment.cc/stats.php?address=PV68JwCpM5CGGf9rirFS7weYWXnMeiyCaC&submit=Lookup+StatsI no longer mine peercoin or own peercoin but that is off topic. The reasons only concern a larger holder of them. I had 1550 of them at one time. I now point my 12 sticks at bravo-mining |
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Shiroslullaby
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May 17, 2016, 11:01:31 AM |
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Had some hardware errors on one of my sticks so I increased the voltage slightly on the pot and havent had any errors in about 12 hours.
Thanks for the detailed guide, it was a huge help in getting me up and going!
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vapourminer
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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May 17, 2016, 11:10:47 AM |
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Great, now just pick a different pool to mine at, do not support spv mining or empty blocks. agreed! and have some fun with it, your honestly gonna bring in like 10,000 satoshi a day or less there at f2pool check out http://mining.securepayment.cc/ if you ever wanna play some solo games . (Phil has hit a peercoin block there with his sticks) or maybe a multipool? you can get paid in some cool coins! if you can get powered hub your pic looks like good setup for easy 15-18 gh/s mine are at 290mh/z 16.5gh/s no errors with powered hub either way, congrats on STICKIN to mining ;p haha LP12, welcome to the forums! these compacs put the fun back in BTC mining. 5 compacs here @ 16.x gh/s on a rPi model B and a superbpag 70 watt hub and they have run for like 2 months straight out absolutely no problems. run cooling when you crank them up grab cgminer-gekko on the 1st page of this thread. runs on win7x64 Pro, win7 home 32bit, rPi B, and of coarse *NIX. plus win XP 32bit (get the special XP driver), Vista, and others. |
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philipma1957
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May 17, 2016, 11:51:03 AM |
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Great, now just pick a different pool to mine at, do not support spv mining or empty blocks. agreed! and have some fun with it, your honestly gonna bring in like 10,000 satoshi a day or less there at f2pool check out http://mining.securepayment.cc/ if you ever wanna play some solo games . (Phil has hit a peercoin block there with his sticks) or maybe a multipool? you can get paid in some cool coins! if you can get powered hub your pic looks like good setup for easy 15-18 gh/s mine are at 290mh/z 16.5gh/s no errors with powered hub either way, congrats on STICKIN to mining ;p haha LP12, welcome to the forums! these compacs put the fun back in BTC mining. 5 compacs here @ 16.x gh/s on a rPi model B and a superbpag 70 watt hub and they have run for like 2 months straight out absolutely no problems. run cooling when you crank them up grab cgminer-gekko on the 1st page of this thread. runs on win7x64 Pro, win7 home 32bit, rPi B, and of coarse *NIX. plus win XP 32bit (get the special XP driver), Vista, and others. I have learned a lot with these sticks. I had an older pc I did a linux build (first and only one) I put in the cgminer-gekko and a bitcore node. And it just runs. and runs and runs. I still can see the 850 million share that won the peercoin block on feb 21 as this cgminer has been running since feb 12. I have a good ups that I have : 1 mac mini my router my ethernet switch my linux pc my 12 compac sticks about 200 watts for all that. I have had 2 quick outages (1 second or less) that the ups saved. I can not complain about the sticks. I killed one of 23 or 24 but it was operator error. I over tightened the heatsink. It lifted the chip a bit I gave it away to a compac stick member. I believe sidehack fixed it. |
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Shiroslullaby
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May 17, 2016, 12:01:01 PM |
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philipma1957 what is powering your sticks?
Im looking into USB hubs but there is a HUGE difference in quality between models/ brands.
Also, is it still possible to still buy these Gekko sticks? I have two but it would be cool to get a hub and a few more.
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sidehack
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May 17, 2016, 12:36:58 PM |
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If you want to go big, grab the 49-port EyeBoot. I was given one to test sticks with in exchange for pictures and endorsement, and folks who know me know I won't endorse something I don't believe is actually good. It's actually good. I test sticks in batches of 25 at 200MHz which means in the neighborhood of 20A running through it and never have problems.
If you're going less big, this thread is full of hub reviews but you gotta do a bit of searching. I hear the name "Superbpag" come up a lot though. Phil's a good resource for hub info.
Sticks are still available from resellers. HolyBitcoin and ASICPuppy are about to get fresh stock, and if you're in Europe bitshopper.de should still have some of his.
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vapourminer
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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May 18, 2016, 12:08:01 AM |
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If you're going less big, this thread is full of hub reviews but you gotta do a bit of searching. I hear the name "Superbpag" come up a lot though. Phil's a good resource for hub info.
Sticks are still available from resellers. HolyBitcoin and ASICPuppy are about to get fresh stock, and if you're in Europe bitshopper.de should still have some of his.
I have this superbpag hub with 5 compacs @ 16.x gh/s http://www.amazon.com/Superbpag-Portable-Charger-Transfer-Samsung/dp/B013OK10YMphil can chime in with more info BTW i make no money off this |
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May 18, 2016, 12:12:14 AM |
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Even though Im not sure what these parts are, its pretty impressive that they list each component of the Superbpag hub.
I will have to see if I can get some more sticks, if so, I will probably be buying a hub as well!
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vapourminer
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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May 18, 2016, 12:23:09 AM |
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I have a good ups that I have : 1 mac mini my router my ethernet switch my linux pc my 12 compac sticks about 200 watts for all that. I have had 2 quick outages (1 second or less) that the ups saved. yup I have several UPSs along with a brigs 7000 watt key start generator along with a 7000 watt transfer switch (so my wife can run it). we had a E3 tornado in town and 7 days (yes seven) with no power (these were separate incidences). look up "Monson Mass tornado" along with "Halloween 2011 snow storm northeast" (snowtober we call it). fun times indeed |
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May 18, 2016, 08:50:22 AM
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..not a big thing, but i got my Gekko running @450MHz last weekend. It´s already posted in Gekkorun-Thread, but maybe it´s of interest here too... How it get it to work:- Power brick 5V/10A supply directly on the Gekko PCB (see picture below) - insert an diode in the 5V+ Line from PC-USB cable ( prevent a backflow from PS to PC, but be able to supply the Gekko also in idle or standard mode w/o ext. Power).. - active Shark Copper/Aluminum-Pipe Cooler and passive backside cooler  Cgminer, running now at 450MHz power measuring about 20 ~ 21 Watts Cheers, andY |
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May 20, 2016, 09:35:31 AM |
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Well it turns out that my gekko is having voltage issues. As soon as it starts the voltage drops to 4.3v even though I've got a Y splitter to the hub and a step down converter straight off a 550w psu breakout board. Has anyone got any suggestions? A decent hub that can be purchased in the UK that has enough oomph?
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May 20, 2016, 10:10:47 AM |
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Well it turns out that my gekko is having voltage issues. As soon as it starts the voltage drops to 4.3v even though I've got a Y splitter to the hub and a step down converter straight off a 550w psu breakout board. Has anyone got any suggestions? A decent hub that can be purchased in the UK that has enough oomph?
Can you post a picture/pictures of your setup? andY |
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May 20, 2016, 08:09:48 PM |
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What's the core voltage set to? To get higher than 250MHz needs to be at least 700mV. At that you should be drawing maybe 1.1A off 5V. Just guessing you've turned up the current limit on the 5V regulator?
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gt_addict
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May 20, 2016, 08:35:21 PM |
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Ive turned the vcore up so there are no HW errors. Seems to be running ok at the moment. Ive moved it onto the psu fan and the voltage has upped to 4.55v now. Its drawing 1.4a and around 6.4w.
The usb dc converter has no adjustment that ive found but was rated to 2a.
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May 20, 2016, 08:37:19 PM |
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According to the picture on the listing you linked to, there are adjustments.
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May 20, 2016, 08:43:00 PM |
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