X6500 FPGA won't mine???

[mjester93]

Hey, I just recently acquired a X6500, in hoping to break even before the wave of ASICs come in. However, when I plug the FPGA up to my computer, I'm getting around 38mhash/s. What's going on???

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[Bogart]

Hey, I just recently acquired a X6500, in hoping to break even before the wave of ASICs come in. However, when I plug the FPGA up to my computer, I'm getting around 38mhash/s. What's going on???

What OS, and what mining software?

USB hub, or connected directly to a motherboard USB port?

How are you powering the x6500?

Have you tried a different USB port?

Have you tried rebooting?

Does the hashrate vary, or is it consistent?

Is the hashrate equal between the two FPGAs, or unequal?

What pool?

[mjester93]

Hey, I just recently acquired a X6500, in hoping to break even before the wave of ASICs come in. However, when I plug the FPGA up to my computer, I'm getting around 38mhash/s. What's going on???

What OS, and what mining software?

USB hub, or connected directly to a motherboard USB port?

How are you powering the x6500?

Have you tried a different USB port?

Have you tried rebooting?

Does the hashrate vary, or is it consistent?

Is the hashrate equal between the two FPGAs, or unequal?

What pool?

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64, directly connected to motherboard usb port. The FPGA is using the circle power supply thing (12v). After reboot, I managed to get it up to around 50mhash/s, and it's consistent at that. Both of them are equal. I'm using the Modular Python Mining software on BTCGuild.

[BitBlitz]

You're running the default bitstream (firmware) if you're running at 50Mh/s. 

You can select faster bitstreams at:
In the MPBM web interface: Workers > (select the board)
Then change the firmware file to /ztexmerge_200mhz.bit (or one of the slower fixed-speed bitstreams) or x6500-overclocker-0402.bit (variable clock speeds). 

More at this site: http://www.fpgamining.com/documentation/software/mpbm-windows

[davecoin]

tml is also available for x6500 (should give you higher mh/s than mpbm):

http://www.tricone-mining.com/tml.html

[mjester93]

ok, so I restarted my comp, and I now get the following error:

Untitled BCJSONRPC work source: Error while fetching job: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Moose\Desktop\X6500_Easy_Package_For_Windows\mpbm-v0.1.0beta\core\actualworksource.py", line 155, in get_job
    jobs = self._get_job()
  File "C:\Users\Moose\Desktop\X6500_Easy_Package_For_Windows\mpbm-v0.1.0beta\modules\theseven\bcjsonrpc\bcjsonrpcworksource.py", line 122, in _get_job
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 1046, in getresponse
  File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 346, in begin
  File "c:\Program Files (x86)\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 316, in _read_status
http.client.BadStatusLine: ''

[Luke-Jr]

Maybe give BFGMiner a try.

[mjester93]

Maybe give BFGMiner a try.

Woooooo! BFGMiner got it working! Thank you, Luke!