Mining motherboard - Onda B250 BTC-D8P - Anyone tried ?

[nelgovsky]

instead of 3 sata and 3 molex mine has (6) 6pin connectors. also hooked up the 24pin mobo cable and the cpu. I will send pics later when I get home

I don't understand what is 6pin connectors do. They are used instead 8pin GPU's connectors?
I would like to make my first rig and collect all information for it in the internet.
I would like to use this motherboard, but ver2 with 8 pcie, 8 gtx 1080 ti and psu. And I don't understand which kind of connectors I need.
An ordinary board needs one 24pin, one 4+4pin and nothing anything. But this one has above plus 6 6pin.

[pix530]

My older ver with 6 PCIe is going to be here next week. Will update with AMD GPU results.

Thank you Phil for sharing, highly appreciated.

[Fanno]

I'm sorry for my English.
Phil, can you show photos of your rig with GPUs and wires?
I don't understand what 6 power sockets do in this board and how to supply the board by psu without 24pin socket.
Thank you.

Same thing for me, I have 6 PCI-E connectors instead of molex and sata connections. Also, they state ddr3 memory but looking at Voskoin video, seems he used DDR4. Stange as DDR3 and 4 don't have the same key for installation...



Any advice?

[x8664amd]

My older ver with 6 PCIe is going to be here next week. Will update with AMD GPU results.

Thank you Phil for sharing, highly appreciated.

Any feedback on the board so far?

[activescott]

I purchased a new ONDA B250 D8P Ver 1.00 (the 12 slot board) and got it up and running easily. It ran with 6GPUs for just over two full days and then tonight it seems to have just died while it was working. It won't boot or post and never even wakes up the display now.
I reseated memory and pulled the battery and put it back. Also tried a new USB stick that boots in another board fine. No lights ever light on the ethernet port. No dice.

Any tips on troubleshooting this board?

[philipma1957]

I purchased a new ONDA B250 D8P Ver 1.00 (the 12 slot board) and got it up and running easily. It ran with 6GPUs for just over two full days and then tonight it seems to have just died while it was working. It won't boot or post and never even wakes up the display now.
I reseated memory and pulled the battery and put it back. Also tried a new USB stick that boots in another board fine. No lights ever light on the ethernet port. No dice.

Any tips on troubleshooting this board?

Windows ? Or smos?

I run smOS.

Try only 1 card. And if you use smos make a new usb from the start

Also try a new high quality cat 6 or cable

Lastly tap the top of the Ethernet jack with your finger nail like a woodpecker taps with its beak like 35 times

[CompleteXen]

Purchased one last Saturday. Will be used for a 12 gpu rig running SMOS and will update once I have it set up and running.

[activescott]

I purchased a new ONDA B250 D8P Ver 1.00 (the 12 slot board) and got it up and running easily. It ran with 6GPUs for just over two full days and then tonight it seems to have just died while it was working. It won't boot or post and never even wakes up the display now.
I reseated memory and pulled the battery and put it back. Also tried a new USB stick that boots in another board fine. No lights ever light on the ethernet port. No dice.

Any tips on troubleshooting this board?

Windows ? Or smos?

I run smOS.

Try only 1 card. And if you use smos make a new usb from the start

Also try a new high quality cat 6 or cable

Lastly tap the top of the Ethernet jack with your finger nail like a woodpecker taps with its beak like 35 times

Thanks for your suggestions but no dice. Even the woodpecker tapping didn’t work 😃Any other ideas?
I am using ethOS.

[Zuedog]

Hi,

received 2 samples this morning from China, but no docs and no drivers nothing, can't find anything online either, i'm trying to get it to run under WIN-7.
So far I have got the LAN to work, but thats it, limited USB, and I can't seem to ID the other hardware, also which of the pins on the fp1 is the start, and the others??

Any help would be much appreciated.

[dlezama]

Hi,

received 2 samples this morning from China, but no docs and no drivers nothing, can't find anything online either, i'm trying to get it to run under WIN-7.
So far I have got the LAN to work, but thats it, limited USB, and I can't seem to ID the other hardware, also which of the pins on the fp1 is the start, and the others??

Any help would be much appreciated.

I'd use Windows 10, you are setting yourself up for a life of pain

[Zuedog]

...I hear you, I'm mostly done under Win 7.1 , what I did was once the MOBO was on the LAN, i used Remote Desktop to "run" the updates in a sudo headless mode, also able to copy/past drivers from host PC... 1st 1080 running up while updating the OS, so far so good!

[fanatic26]

Mining in windows in general is asking for trouble. Almost as much as buying random weirdo untested chinese motherboards when there are a ton of compatible boards out thre in the wild already. Is there any reason you guys are going for this janky looking junk instead of buying a known working board?

if you say its because of cost, count the downtime you are having trying to get that junk working and see if you really saved much 

[dlezama]

Mining in windows in general is asking for trouble. Almost as much as buying random weirdo untested chinese motherboards when there are a ton of compatible boards out thre in the wild already. Is there any reason you guys are going for this janky looking junk instead of buying a known working board?

if you say its because of cost, count the downtime you are having trying to get that junk working and see if you really saved much 

I use Windows 10 to mine and I have no problems with it. But let's not start a holy war there All my motherboards so far are known brand ones. I have already be beaten up by issues with raisers though, and I want to try a build for 8 GPUs with no raisers. In a previous life I put together many PCs with Chinese generic motherboards and although sometimes they cause trouble, my experience wasn't that bad. As I do this as a hobby, I like testing different setups and experimenting.

[Merlig]

Are there any trustworthy sources for that mainboard that have a lower min. order quantity? I never ordered at alibaba, can you negotiate with the sellers about quantity?

[octominer]

Are there any trustworthy sources for that mainboard that have a lower min. order quantity? I never ordered at alibaba, can you negotiate with the sellers about quantity?

Another alternative is the Octominer B8PLUS board that has 8 full size PCIe slots and an integrated Intel Mobile 3855u CPU.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2754227.0

[Mikesol]

You will find them on eBay but most ship from China still.

[learnnshare]

Hi, please tell me the supported processor and ram. Thanks a lot.
Newbie here

the board is solid

I purchased 1 sample then 10 then another 10

so 21 boards 1 dud

and I believe the buyer forced a ddr3 stick into it first then the correct ddr4

there are more then one build with it on my thread  and here is my youtube on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtnz9ip3o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXukc1d39Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIG9oebnW0

the seller allowed paypal.

about 180usd for 1 sample

about 1430usd for a 10 pack

here it is with extra fan cooling
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg26678847#msg26678847

[philipma1957]

Hi, please tell me the supported processor and ram. Thanks a lot.
Newbie here

the board is solid

I purchased 1 sample then 10 then another 10

so 21 boards 1 dud

and I believe the buyer forced a ddr3 stick into it first then the correct ddr4

there are more then one build with it on my thread  and here is my youtube on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtnz9ip3o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXukc1d39Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIG9oebnW0

the seller allowed paypal.

about 180usd for 1 sample

about 1430usd for a 10 pack

here it is with extra fan cooling
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg26678847#msg26678847

missed it I use this ram

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015HQ9UDO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?

this cpu

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01N1SH3PB/ref=dp_olp_new_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=new

[huntingthesnark]

Hi,

received 2 samples this morning from China, but no docs and no drivers nothing, can't find anything online either, i'm trying to get it to run under WIN-7.
So far I have got the LAN to work, but thats it, limited USB, and I can't seem to ID the other hardware, also which of the pins on the fp1 is the start, and the others??

Any help would be much appreciated.

Just got one too, weirdly seems to boot happily with nothing connected to fp1, just on psu (weird bios setting?) - Most importantly - can anyone help with the start pins question?

EDIT: Weird boot aside, this setup seems to work for the fp1 pins: https://dynamize.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/step-8-connecting-front-panel-header.html

[fencerven]

Mine is working perfectly I just dont realise how to connect the power button (I turn it on and off through the main PSU)