Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[psy112]

But wouldn´t they be interested in developing firmware for the farm they own? Or the have probably already done it and don't want to share it with us costumer, because then we would add extra speed to the network?

I don't actually think KNC have a scrypt farm, the increase in hashrate when batch 1 was released was on a par with the number of machines sold.

They probably intended too, but the yield on the first batch of chips was so bad that they didn't have enough left over, and when the second batch was due to ship they had to start refunding people as they still didn't have enough chips to fulfill existing orders.

I suppose they could have ordered a 3rd batch, but the network hashrate has not reflected any large changes so it's not something that has happened yet and with the imminent block halving on LTC would be a brave move.

They don't have a mining farm? Missed the articles about them?
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/den-stora-pengafabriken-i-norrbotten/

You know that they financed that farm with the overpriced and delayed batch 1? So why wouldn't they sit on the firmware without releasing it?

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[pinhead666]

But wouldn´t they be interested in developing firmware for the farm they own? Or the have probably already done it and don't want to share it with us costumer, because then we would add extra speed to the network?

I don't actually think KNC have a scrypt farm, the increase in hashrate when batch 1 was released was on a par with the number of machines sold.

They probably intended too, but the yield on the first batch of chips was so bad that they didn't have enough left over, and when the second batch was due to ship they had to start refunding people as they still didn't have enough chips to fulfill existing orders.

I suppose they could have ordered a 3rd batch, but the network hashrate has not reflected any large changes so it's not something that has happened yet and with the imminent block halving on LTC would be a brave move.

They don't have a mining farm? Missed the articles about them?
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/den-stora-pengafabriken-i-norrbotten/

You know that they financed that farm with the overpriced and delayed batch 1? So why wouldn't they sit on the firmware without releasing it?

I quickly looked at the article but I couldn't find anything that points scrypt mining.Bitcoin yes but it's not mined with Titans.When I have time I'll read the whole article.

[psy112]

But wouldn´t they be interested in developing firmware for the farm they own? Or the have probably already done it and don't want to share it with us costumer, because then we would add extra speed to the network?

I don't actually think KNC have a scrypt farm, the increase in hashrate when batch 1 was released was on a par with the number of machines sold.

They probably intended too, but the yield on the first batch of chips was so bad that they didn't have enough left over, and when the second batch was due to ship they had to start refunding people as they still didn't have enough chips to fulfill existing orders.

I suppose they could have ordered a 3rd batch, but the network hashrate has not reflected any large changes so it's not something that has happened yet and with the imminent block halving on LTC would be a brave move.

They don't have a mining farm? Missed the articles about them?
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/den-stora-pengafabriken-i-norrbotten/

You know that they financed that farm with the overpriced and delayed batch 1? So why wouldn't they sit on the firmware without releasing it?

I quickly looked at the article but I couldn't find anything that points scrypt mining.Bitcoin yes but it's not mined with Titans.When I have time I'll read the whole article.

You might be right, It can be a bitcoin farm, but i don't think that's the whole truth 

[jelin1984]

I had less one ltc with your firmware

[GenTarkin]

I had less one ltc with your firmware

Rofl, my firmware has nothing to do w/ speed. =) but ok.

[Prelude]

I had less one ltc with your firmware

Rofl, my firmware has nothing to do w/ speed. =) but ok.

I think it's safe to say that jelin should be ignored. He makes my head hurt.

Still haven't tried your firmware since the last time, but planning on when time permits. Will donate again also.

[Searing]

I am eventually gonna send you some btc but for right now I am unsure due to the fact that even you you fixed the firmware to ignore DEAD dies and your other
 adv page and I also like the temp tweaks......options) ie you will get some btc if even if i never use your mods just for the pleasure of watching you try and succeed

but anyway am still stalling installing it for now (away from home a lot over time this month)

my question is how do you handle the soft asic resets where it comes up 1a NONCE received whatever the msg is ..and eventually it fixes its self promptly after
maybe saying the same message in 4 lines like 1a 1b 4c 2d or whatever?

I already have 2 dead dies on a cube each on the 2 port controller on the 2nd Titan ....so constant reboot for this sorta soft asic issue is not needed

anyway anyone have these pop up and the firmware shrugs it off without issue? just kinda staying behind the pack of folk here  in that I will use this 2 cube unit vs the
6 cube other unit to test and with these issues as my testing of such but the two cube unit has these issues

1) 1 die dead and set to off on each cube

2) my temps are high on the vrms can go above 85c seen as high as 90c and it still hashes (one hot cube)

3) the soft asic resets or whatever they are called above ..how does your firmware handle such

lots of dorky stuff and constant reboots are probably not too good if issues using this as the test unit of the firmware

so braver folk then me anything above an issue or is all golden? or don't ya know quite yet?

If i get a weekend off and can watch the unit I may toss this up just to see what goes boom but maybe others know more already?

(we also serve who quiver in fear with the woman folk in the rear during the battle ..much nicer and more cozy)

Just try it out man, Im not sure what reboot issues ur experiencing, is this with my firmware? If not then no idea what u speak of. I dealt w/ the reboot issues when dies are flagged to off manually.
My firmware really doesnt do anything w/ soft resets.

ok if it does nothing with soft resets and it does see the 2 dies on 1 cube each I have OFF then all should be well...but again on my machine the rare 'soft resets' resolve
themselves and I'd be surpised if I see more then 5 in a day....so if/when I finally get some time off from work and can baby sit the miner for a bit ...I'll pop your firmware
up and see if any issues ..irregardless you will get some btc from me for your efforts...keep up the good work....

but others post if you have my issues I likely won't get to this for a couple weeks at best (assuming you have my issues kinda sorta as well)

anyway good job we all appreciate your efforts

[jelin1984]

sorry i had tried 1 day

and have 1 ltc less

[LongAndShort]

I had less one ltc with your firmware

Rofl, my firmware has nothing to do w/ speed. =) but ok.

I think it's safe to say that jelin should be ignored. He makes my head hurt.

Still haven't tried your firmware since the last time, but planning on when time permits. Will donate again also.

Personally i don't think thats fair, just because of some language barrier, i would like to see someone who is greek (or whatever language he/she is) maybe try help them. I cant imagine how hard it must be for that person, difficult to deal with or not they must be pulling their out right?

My head does hurt too, you are not alone and i have just found him/her on another thread i am subbed to haha. I just cant help him/her because they wont reply to me at all. I asked some time ago for some screen shots of their original firmware web browser screens (advanced and main screen) and just got a snarky remark from the new firmware guy so i stopped heh.

I have this feeling we will feel like assholes if we hate on him/her just because of our heads hurting.
Does anyone speak greek just to translate for this guy/gal?

[pinhead666]

I had less one ltc with your firmware

Rofl, my firmware has nothing to do w/ speed. =) but ok.

I think it's safe to say that jelin should be ignored. He makes my head hurt.

Still haven't tried your firmware since the last time, but planning on when time permits. Will donate again also.

Personally i don't think thats fair, just because of some language barrier, i would like to see someone who is greek (or whatever language he/she is) maybe try help them. I cant imagine how hard it must be for that person, difficult to deal with or not they must be pulling their out right?

My head does hurt too, you are not alone and i have just found him/her on another thread i am subbed to haha. I just cant help him/her because they wont reply to me at all. I asked some time ago for some screen shots of their original firmware web browser screens (advanced and main screen) and just got a snarky remark from the new firmware guy so i stopped heh.

I have this feeling we will feel like assholes if we hate on him/her just because of our heads hurting.
Does anyone speak greek just to translate for this guy/gal?

I think he is swedish. Jag talar lite svenska.So I think I could help him but only if he asks.

[psy112]

For you guys that bought preordered Titans.

The more people we are, the bigger it will sting for Knc


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[vegasguy]

Guys we are on our own as far as firmware updates. We are so fortunate to have someone that can help us. I have donated some BTC , but if you want this development to continue , then please donate. I LOVE the 85C cutoff for the vrms as they should NEVER get this hot and if they do, and run this way or hotter, they will eventually burn up. Nice work Tarkin!! I have made major improvements on the hardware to reduce the heat as much as possible. I will be offering my service to the public in the next few weeks. This is a pic of one of my cubes that has all my mods. There are 7 different mods that needs to be done to achieve this, and its nothing I will discuss here, youll have to send in your cube for repair and mods. Or I can offer a package price for multiple working cubes for just mods.

This is a cube with all the completed mods running outside in Las Vegas in over 105F simply to test it under the most brutal circumstances. It has been running for over 12 hours. I set the last 2 dies at 325MHZ on purpose just to see what the temps would be. Here are the results:



To my knowledge I am the only person who is not only able to repair these , but also at the same time get such low temps. The vrm temps is what kills the dies. When this is prevented, your cubes will last 100X longer. I would strongly urge anyone to have me perform these mods BEFORE your dies burn up, especially if your vrm temps (to the far right) are running at 80C, its just a matter of time.

Here is the link to my website in case you want these mods applied. I will also make a video soon and post it on youtube for any doubters. These hardware mods work VERY well with the firmware from GenTarkin.

http://bitcoinlasvegas.net/kncminer-titan-repair-knc-miner-repair-titan-repair-kncminer-fix/

Vegas

[GenTarkin]

Guys we are on our own as far as firmware updates. We are so fortunate to have someone that can help us. I have donated some BTC , but if you want this development to continue , then please donate. I LOVE the 85C cutoff for the vrms as they should NEVER get this hot and if they do, and run this way or hotter, they will eventually burn up. Nice work Tarkin!! I have made major improvements on the hardware to reduce the heat as much as possible. I will be offering my service to the public in the next few weeks. This is a pic of one of my cubes that has all my mods. There are 7 different mods that needs to be done to achieve this, and its nothing I will discuss here, youll have to send in your cube for repair and mods. Or I can offer a package price for multiple working cubes for just mods.

This is a cube with all the completed mods running outside in Las Vegas in over 105F simply to test it under the most brutal circumstances. It has been running for over 12 hours. I set the last 2 dies at 325MHZ on purpose just to see what the temps would be. Here are the results:



To my knowledge I am the only person who is not only able to repair these , but also at the same time get such low temps. The vrm temps is what kills the dies. When this is prevented, your cubes will last 100X longer. I would strongly urge anyone to have me perform these mods BEFORE your dies burn up, especially if your vrm temps (to the far right) are running at 80C, its just a matter of time.

Here is the link to my website in case you want these mods applied. I will also make a video soon and post it on youtube for any doubters. These hardware mods work VERY well with the firmware from GenTarkin.

http://bitcoinlasvegas.net/kncminer-titan-repair-knc-miner-repair-titan-repair-kncminer-fix/

Vegas

Awesome job man!!! impressive! =)

[TXSteve]

my question is how do you handle the soft asic resets where it comes up 1a NONCE received whatever the msg is ..and eventually it fixes its self promptly after
maybe saying the same message in 4 lines like 1a 1b 4c 2d or whatever?

I have one die that does these soft resets quite often, half the die is working the other half isn't. So I tried the GenTarkin upgrade and it changes these soft resets into hard power down/up resets, so it's probably not what you are looking for on that rig. I switched back to the old img.

I am using GenTarkin img on my other rigs, and it is fine so far.

Haven't had a temp trigger yet but I expect at least 2 dies to trigger over 90c today, see how that works

GenTarkin do we need to enable the  max temp each time we start the rig or just once and it remembers on subsequent restarts?

Steve

ps here's the soft reset msg sequence

 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:369]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] Pool 0 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4[5-1] Die configured successfully

not sure how to detect these soft resets, maybe just run the hard reset routine at a set interval like every 5 min -- that way gives the soft reset time to do its thing

[GenTarkin]

my question is how do you handle the soft asic resets where it comes up 1a NONCE received whatever the msg is ..and eventually it fixes its self promptly after
maybe saying the same message in 4 lines like 1a 1b 4c 2d or whatever?

I have one die that does these soft resets quite often, half the die is working the other half isn't. So I tried the GenTarkin upgrade and it changes these soft resets into hard power down/up resets, so it's probably not what you are looking for on that rig. I switched back to the old img.

I am using GenTarkin img on my other rigs, and it is fine so far.

Haven't had a temp trigger yet but I expect at least 2 dies to trigger over 90c today, see how that works

GenTarkin do we need to enable the  max temp each time we start the rig or just once and it remembers on subsequent restarts?

Steve

ps here's the soft reset msg sequence

 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:369]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4b[5:1:370]: Got nonce for unknown work in slot 0
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] Pool 0 stale share detected, submitting as user requested
 [2015-08-10 16:33:33] KNC 4[5-1] Die configured successfully

not sure how to detect these soft resets, maybe just run the hard reset routine at a set interval like every 5 min -- that way gives the soft reset time to do its thing

So, it will remember the temp settings across a reboot as it rewrites the file that checks these temps & settings. Whenever you hit the submit button it permanently changes those settings. 
As far as handling die soft resets, I think I know a way to differentiate between the 2 via the monitoring script and could possibly modify the code to look for 2 different lengths of time and handle via a soft reset on the short timeout and on a longer timeout make it do the power cycle on the cube. My titan seems to have no soft resets , only hard resets so thats what I modified the script for =)... I thought most Titans didnt actually have die timeouts that were fixed by soft resets. =P
How often do the soft resets happen for you. Because, honestly it wont hurt anything by issuing the dcdc power reset thats coded in my firmware, thats if its not happening like every minute or something crazy lol!
If its like once every few hours or once a day, then the hard reset in my firmware is still just fine.

[GenTarkin]

it does a soft reset of that one die every 5 min or so. no other problems on this rig so don't need any hard resets or temp monitor because this one runs cool. I'll just run the old img

So, it will remember the temp settings across a reboot as it rewrites the file that checks these temps & settings. Whenever you hit the submit button it permanently changes those settings.  
As far as handling die soft resets, I think I know a way to differentiate between the 2 via the monitoring script and could possibly modify the code to look for 2 different lengths of time and handle via a soft reset on the short timeout and on a longer timeout make it do the power cycle on the cube. My titan seems to have no soft resets , only hard resets so thats what I modified the script for =)... I thought most Titans didnt actually have die timeouts that were fixed by soft resets. =P
How often do the soft resets happen for you. Because, honestly it wont hurt anything by issuing the dcdc power reset thats coded in my firmware, thats if its not happening like every minute or something crazy lol!
If its like once every few hours or once a day, then the hard reset in my firmware is still just fine.
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Testing a rearrangement & rewrite of hard reset detection. Will have to wait till mine actually needs resetting to see if it works. If it does, it should differentiate between soft reset success vs fail and then applying hard power reset to cube if needed.
My Titan doesnt experience successfull soft resets. So, will need someone to test it out once I verify the soft reset fail then hard reset works.

[GenTarkin]

I can check it out pretty quickly

btw, it doesn't seem like the max temp is working, I have it set for 90c and a die hit 92c, nothing happened

Testing a rearrangement & rewrite of hard reset detection. Will have to wait till mine actually needs resetting to see if it works. If it does, it should differentiate between soft reset success vs fail and then applying hard power reset to cube if needed.
My Titan doesnt experience successfull soft resets. So, will need someone to test it out once I verify the soft reset fail then hard reset works.
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It doesnt happen instantly. Think it loops every 4 seconds. Ill test it here in a lil while. I dont see why it wouldnt work but Ill double check =)
Grr nevermind, somehow it stopped writing to the config file. Ill have to look into it later. Not sure how it broke =P
Probably a typo somewhere lol

[TXSteve]

I can check it out pretty quickly

btw, it doesn't seem like the max temp is working, I have it set for 90c and a die hit 92c, nothing happened

Testing a rearrangement & rewrite of hard reset detection. Will have to wait till mine actually needs resetting to see if it works. If it does, it should differentiate between soft reset success vs fail and then applying hard power reset to cube if needed.
My Titan doesnt experience successfull soft resets. So, will need someone to test it out once I verify the soft reset fail then hard reset works.

well I had 1 hard reset work flawlessly  

I'll pledge .5 btc for your efforts, if you can just drop the MHz from 325 to 300, instead of turning the die off. Also can you add another temp cut-off 93c -- I manually turn them down around 92/93 - it's usually at those temps for only a few hours, and haven't had any problems

[psy112]

Is it karma? I haven't had a dead die yet since my RMA, but today i got my first after reading up on the firmware patch ;P

But I feel like a noob, don't understand how i update with your patch? do it like normal, just update or do I have to do the coding part as It says you explain on github?

[bittawm]

if I ever see sam cole, i will punch him in the dick