cypherdoc
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I got an Avalon that initially appeared to be a lemon. cgminer would not start through the web interface. It could only be started from an SSH term using a start - ctrl-C - start - ctrl-C ... sequence until the units were coaxed into hashing properly. Otherwise I'd get "FPGA contoller mess up" "Avalon initialized" messages looping over and over. Once started, hashing at 282 MHz was a little unstable with the hash rate bouncing around a little.
After reading some of the comments in the other thread, I replaced the supplied Corsair GS700 PSU with a Fortress 750W Platinum I had lying around. This solved the cgminer starting problem and the unsteady hash rate. In fact, when I switched the clock to 300 MHz it now hashes perfectly at a steady 71.5 Gh/s with the somewhat upgraded PSU.
You might want to have look at your power supply if you are having these problems.
Very nice. I just finally pulled the trigger on a AX860 (80 Plus Platinum rated) so hopefully that will work out ok. Just a word of caution to those of you who are thinking of replacing the PSU, watch out and make sure the length of the PSU is not over 7 inches. A decent 800+ watt unit should be around 6 to 6.3". however someone who posted pics, i think libertybuck, is running his psu's outside the avalon just fine and has measured temps actually lower with this configuration. |
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ewibit
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April 08, 2013, 06:34:17 PM |
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is this the same as it was PM? |
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Aseras
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April 08, 2013, 06:59:41 PM |
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no.
one in PM is based off of 2.10.5a. PM one has working restart.
Newest testing firmware 20130408 has an issue when you first start or when you change pools, cgminer doesn't restart. It hangs and sits for several minutes until watchdog kills process. Then it works ok.
20130408 is very nice when running though, and is based off of 2.11.4 and a new avalon driver. It greatly reduces rejects and HW errors.
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ewibit
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April 08, 2013, 07:49:29 PM |
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Newest testing firmware 20130408 has an issue when you first start or when you change pools, cgminer doesn't restart. It hangs and sits for several minutes until watchdog kills process. Then it works ok.
ok thx then I will wait  |
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April 09, 2013, 12:13:20 AM |
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however someone who posted pics, i think libertybuck, is running his psu's outside the avalon just fine and has measured temps actually lower with this configuration.
No. I did not posted it. Should be someone else. |
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April 09, 2013, 10:02:25 PM |
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Aseras, Please let us know when this issue is fixed. |
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Aseras
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April 10, 2013, 12:28:34 AM |
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Aseras, Please let us know when this issue is fixed. Will do. Ckolivas is working on it with xiangfu. My avs are limping now, my Internet is out, running on 3G until they fix it. Sucks. Probably have to drag my avalons back to work. |
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April 10, 2013, 07:10:38 AM |
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April 10, 2013, 09:43:47 AM |
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I was going to say the same thing. I'm curious to know what has been changed/fixed/updated in this latest firmware. A "CHANGELOG" file in the testing folder would be really nice.
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April 10, 2013, 10:10:25 AM |
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I'm testing it on two units right now. So far it doesn't hang after I update the cgminer config in the gui and it updates faster. |
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April 10, 2013, 11:17:16 AM |
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I'm testing it on two units right now. So far it doesn't hang after I update the cgminer config in the gui and it updates faster.
is it save Keep settings? |
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April 10, 2013, 03:19:54 PM |
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flashed to 0410 firmware just now.
the process is smooth, and the cgminer got upgrade. worked ok at 300Mhz for 10 minutes.
Still have some HW ( maybe cause I'm working at 300Mhz).
Still many rejects with slush's pool ( but all other pool is ok. ozco, btcguild)
Before flash, the hashrate average is 70-71 G each. now one is 67G and one is 71G.
Will keep monitoring and report later.
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Aseras
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April 10, 2013, 03:24:31 PM |
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flashed to 0410 firmware just now.
the process is smooth, and the cgminer got upgrade. worked ok at 300Mhz for 10 minutes.
Still have some HW ( maybe cause I'm working at 300Mhz).
Still many rejects with slush's pool ( but all other pool is ok. ozco, btcguild)
Before flash, the hashrate average is 70-71 G each. now one is 67G and one is 71G.
Will keep monitoring and report later.
the new flash and cgminer reimplement the miner worker threads. https://github.com/BitSyncom/cgminer/commit/6c5c6e99a32315af9ee345830a10fd770fa615b8it makes the work numbers different. It is much more consistent now. Before work would return kinda at random, you you'd see swings between high values and lower ones. |
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April 10, 2013, 04:02:42 PM |
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Aseras, question for you. What percentage of HW errors would you consider to be "OK" while running at 300 MHz. I get close to 8% at the moment. With 03-25 I got pretty much the same. Admittedly it has been only 1hr and 20 min since I flashed to 04-10 so maybe I need a longer sampling period?
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caoxg (OP)
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April 10, 2013, 04:24:10 PM |
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Aseras, question for you. What percentage of HW errors would you consider to be "OK" while running at 300 MHz. I get close to 8% at the moment. With 03-25 I got pretty much the same. Admittedly it has been only 1hr and 20 min since I flashed to 04-10 so maybe I need a longer sampling period?
I got 1045 accept, 48 HW for 1 hour 14 min for one. and 557 accept, 35 HW for 32 min for another. |
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Aseras
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April 10, 2013, 10:10:47 PM |
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Aseras, question for you. What percentage of HW errors would you consider to be "OK" while running at 300 MHz. I get close to 8% at the moment. With 03-25 I got pretty much the same. Admittedly it has been only 1hr and 20 min since I flashed to 04-10 so maybe I need a longer sampling period?
A handful per hour, not more than few hundred per day. 1 hw error for several thousand diff1 shares. The reason for the hw errors is there is a bug in Fpga controller, it cannot be fixed in software ( according to xiangfu ) but trying to find a work around. The controller won't reset on end of work and stalls apparently no matter what you do. Ckolivas is going to rewrite the USB driver and code next week. if all goes well well have much better control soon. |
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April 10, 2013, 11:28:40 PM |
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Aseras, question for you. What percentage of HW errors would you consider to be "OK" while running at 300 MHz. I get close to 8% at the moment. With 03-25 I got pretty much the same. Admittedly it has been only 1hr and 20 min since I flashed to 04-10 so maybe I need a longer sampling period?
A handful per hour, not more than few hundred per day. 1 hw error for several thousand diff1 shares. The reason for the hw errors is there is a bug in Fpga controller, it cannot be fixed in software ( according to xiangfu ) but trying to find a work around. The controller won't reset on end of work and stalls apparently no matter what you do. Ckolivas is going to rewrite the USB driver and code next week. if all goes well well have much better control soon. Looking forward to having the HW issue resolved.. |
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April 11, 2013, 03:15:57 AM |
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Interesting, there is a FPGA chip on that data controller  |
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