Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[ImI]

Well I am at a total loss why my Jupiter does not get above 410Gh/s. (380 at BTC Guild)

Tried every firmware, tried the Enable cores patch and still the same.

Look at the results from bertmod, I have 1 Asic #4 showing (192 Cores all on hashing at 130Gh/s)

The other 3 Asics (# 0 , 2 , 3)

#0=80.58Gh's , #2=93.36Gh/s , #3=88Gh/s

The DC/DC are all showing 4 on and ok apart from Aisc #3 only showing 3 DC/DC on and ok , no other found.

Temps are as Follows

HW status:

ASIC slot #1: 53.5 ℃
ASIC slot #2: -
ASIC slot #3: 54.0 ℃
ASIC slot #4: 61.0 ℃
ASIC slot #5: 58.5 ℃
ASIC slot #6: -

Thought this was to be plug and play, I have spend Hours upon Hours trying to nurse this Lemon back into life.

Got in Mining on the Day it arrived Wednesday the 16th at 14:00 (UK time), Mining via BTC-Guild I have the grand total of :-

2.25 BTC's

Any Suggestions on what KNC should be offering to do when I call them again tomorrow.

Temps are rather high. Tried additional cooling? Cool down the bbb as well as the vrms etc.

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[Silv0r]

Hi guys,

so I played a little with firmware settings, voltage (0.7 / 0.9) and after a few restarts I now have my Mercury running stable at 130 GH/s and only have ~15 cores disabled instead of 40 cores with firmware 0.90 and enablecore.bin.

I made a few photos from the ASIC board and found out that the VRM with an output voltage from 0.9V they reach temperatures over 89°C.

Here is an album I made:

http://imgur.com/a/wVSbq

Sorry but maybe I missed some news along the way. Are you able to change voltage at will? Or are you saying that using 0.90 fw means using higher voltage, while 0.95/96 lower voltage?

edit1: very nice pics by the way

It's up to firmware what Output Voltage are used. Now I use 0.94 with 0.9V (194W power output). If your boards are running fine with 0.7V I recommend you to use it. With 0.7V I only have half the output power (about ~100W) but more cores disabled (40 cores of 192 disabled).

[greek_hephaestus]

Hello,
For any of you want to try solo mining with KnCMiner follow these steps:
- In a windows or linux pc, modify local (appdata) bitcoin.conf, add line rpcallowip=localip e.a. 192.168.1.xxx
- Ensure that your firewall does not block bitcoin-qt
- restart bitcoin-qt
- In KncMiner mining tab set as pool 192.168.1.xxx:8332, user and password whatever you have in bitcoin.conf
- Restart CGMiner in KnCMiner Mining tab (web GUI)
Works just fine.
Depending on your luck you may find a block earlier that expected block finding time e.a. 51 days for a saturn or 24 days for a Jupiter.
Also you can save from the increasing difficulty.
Of course the risk remains.

[soy]

When I fuss with my cardboard and fans, I sometimes get a reboot.  Since I run, at the present, without the top, center cardboard cooling the BBB, a 12v fan sitting inside blowing on the left side of the module, another 12v fan outside the case blowing on the right side of the 1 module (Mercury), I added another piece of cardboard to the right of the BBB, to the side and up to the module, taking the air pushed out the side and directing it to the module.  The miner white light came on and off as I moved the fans, perhaps a loose pin in an added fan connector, but it started again right away.  Put Bertmod back but earlier tried the 0.2.1 and found it works well with firmware 0.90, looked at my cores, which I could with the 0.2.1, and earlier their was a single core not up, but now there are four 100% cores and the BertMod says the power change from adding that one core on firmware 0.90 with ~0.9v to the 4 vmr's, was 174 watts with one core down and 180 watts with all cores running.

[Phoenix1969]

+1 Im starting to see a pattern of conceit among hero members.  I would rather use BFG modded fw over CG every day this year (with that said I felt like luke-jr was a little conceited too)  Thanks you two for the great sw and all - specifically the free factor, but acting egotistical doesn't help your cause at all.  

You're free to do what you like. By the way, though, cgminer is my project. Kano is a value contributor but not the maintainer, and while I have complete control over what code to include, I have zero ability to control what he says or does on the forum. Note that in the future, I will be working on the kfc driver code.

cool, my offer of letting you play with a saturn is hereby offered to cklovas...... ! you da man, ty for being so understanding!



on another note (totally off -topic)  It's a goood morning...

[soy]

When I fuss with my cardboard and fans, I sometimes get a reboot.  Since I run, at the present, without the top, center cardboard cooling the BBB, a 12v fan sitting inside blowing on the left side of the module, another 12v fan outside the case blowing on the right side of the 1 module (Mercury), I added another piece of cardboard to the right of the BBB, to the side and up to the module, taking the air pushed out the side and directing it to the module.  The miner white light came on and off as I moved the fans, perhaps a loose pin in an added fan connector, but it started again right away.  Put Bertmod back but earlier tried the 0.2.1 and found it works well with firmware 0.90, looked at my cores, which I could with the 0.2.1, and earlier their was a single core not up, but now there are four 100% cores and the BertMod says the power change from adding that one core on firmware 0.90 with ~0.9v to the 4 vmr's, was 174 watts with one core down and 180 watts with all cores running.

Nah, that can't be right as (4dies)(48cores)(6watts)=1152 watts.

So, at 100%, 180watts/(4dies)(48cores)=.9275watt/core.

[edgar]

anyone have a suggestion for a miner unable to even get the GUI up?

12 hrs, 3 people, 2 laptops, team-viewer sessions.... nothing.

tried 5-5-5 reset - nada

changed ether cable - nada

found the IP easily with arp -a, solid green led, fans are purring, blue leds twinkling

'halp'

[Phoenix1969]

are you absolutely certain it's the correct I.P.?  labled with
kNC or Texas Instruments
it can be difficult to time it just right, I had similar woes...
gotta scan at just the right time to catch it for me it was...
The moment you get the ip....
then turn dhcp off on the gui asap, and assign i.p.'s before cgminer closes the connection.
good luck.

P.S.   during the green light flashing on ethernet. If it stops, start over.

if you can putty in... You will most likely find the workername  in CGminer is wrong.
you can change it there instead, just be sure to save to /config/cgminer.conf     and not the root address.
that will fix it.

I had to "Crack" into every Saturn this way because of the workername field contained too many character spaces in comparison to what was on my pool.

[CMMPro]

arp-a on my Ubuntu laptop shows me "Saturn-5F9" and the IP.

"NMAP -sP 192.160.0.0/24" will list all devices on the network that respond.

Maybe try that and hit up each device on your network one a time?
I had about 25 devices here at the house with all the laptops, cell phones, gaming systems etc. lol. But I found the device pretty quickly.

It will ask for the login and password (admin/admin) when you find it.

[edgar]

are you absolutely certain it's the correct I.P.?  labled with
kNC or Texas Instruments
it can be difficult to time it just right, I had similar woes...
gotta scan at just the right time to catch it for me it was...
The moment you get the ip....
then turn dhcp off on the gui asap, and assign i.p.'s before cgminer closes the connection.
good luck.

P.S.   during the green light flashing on ethernet. If it stops, start over.

if you can putty in... You will most likely find the workername on the mining page is wrong.
you can change it there instead, just be sure to save to /config/cgminer.conf     and not the root address.
that will fix it.

i dont follow this but it sounds promising.

[Sitarow]

Hi guys,

so I played a little with firmware settings, voltage (0.7 / 0.9) and after a few restarts I now have my Mercury running stable at 130 GH/s and only have ~15 cores disabled instead of 40 cores with firmware 0.90 and enablecore.bin.

I made a few photos from the ASIC board and found out that the VRM with an output voltage from 0.9V they reach temperatures over 89°C.

Here is an album I made:

http://imgur.com/a/wVSbq

Thank you for sharing that.

[DPoS]

not really, the saturn has now more WU/s (4370)  and less HW errors (about 7%) with 0.94
and before  with 0.95 and 0.96 it had 15-20% HW Errors  and 3600-3700 WU/s

things change..  when you go back to .94 do you get the same result or even more HW errors now?

[Phoenix1969]

are you absolutely certain it's the correct I.P.?  labled with
kNC or Texas Instruments
it can be difficult to time it just right, I had similar woes...
gotta scan at just the right time to catch it for me it was...
The moment you get the ip....
then turn dhcp off on the gui asap, and assign i.p.'s before cgminer closes the connection.
good luck.

P.S.   during the green light flashing on ethernet. If it stops, start over.

if you can putty in... You will most likely find the workername on the mining page is wrong.
you can change it there instead, just be sure to save to /config/cgminer.conf     and not the root address.
that will fix it.

i dont follow this but it sounds promising.

the moment you are able to access the gui page, go to the inetworking tab/page uncheck dhcp, and assign the ip to your miner


but... it may be easier to use putty and get in directly thru cgminer..., you can keep the connection live if you make it in...  still change the info on the gui networking page

[edgar]

i am unable to access the GUI page

[DPoS]

Hi guys,

so I played a little with firmware settings, voltage (0.7 / 0.9) and after a few restarts I now have my Mercury running stable at 130 GH/s and only have ~15 cores disabled instead of 40 cores with firmware 0.90 and enablecore.bin.

I made a few photos from the ASIC board and found out that the VRM with an output voltage from 0.9V they reach temperatures over 89°C.

Here is an album I made:

http://imgur.com/a/wVSbq

Thank you for sharing that.

Die 1 might be cooked.  Let us know how you wrestle with it in the future.  I have one like that where .96 just keeps 30 cores off.  It's for the best since it will just flap on and off cores if it tries with other FW now

[Phoenix1969]

i am unable to access the GUI page

so use putty
You will never be able to access the GUI or thru putty if the ethernet light stops blinking before you make access.
it took me 18 hours of frustration, then a good night's sleep to figure that out

[DPoS]

with the original 0.95 firmware.

glad we could be testbeds for you!!   I'm happy with my early coins but do have one limp miner to nurse now. Glad the other one had a bit more constitution

[edgar]

i am unable to access the GUI page

so use putty
You will never be able to access the GUI or thru putty if the ethernet light stops blinking before you make access.

putty fails to work - you are welcome to try via tv - you will be the 3rd, and they do say 3rd time lucky

[merv77]

i am unable to access the GUI page

have you tried just powering just the controller/beaglebone only..?

- power off miner and unplug power to ASIC boards
- power up PSU with controller/beaglebone only
- clear browers data/cache and and re-try web ui

this is providing you know your correct IP of the miner

[Phoenix1969]

i am unable to access the GUI page

so use putty
You will never be able to access the GUI or thru putty if the ethernet light stops blinking before you make access.

putty fails to work - you are welcome to try via tv - you will be the 3rd, and they do say 3rd time lucky

does the I.P. sniff out as a "live" connection?