Dogie's Miner Setup Guides:Nicely formatted version available at dogiecoin.com!
Contents:
0a) What type of blade do I have?0b) What You Need1) Powering2) Cooling3) Case4) Configuration5) Troubleshooting6) Where to buy0a) What type of blade do I have? (top)There are 4 current types of blades in the wild:
| V1s batch 1 | - No overclockable firmware and only 10 were sold into the wild. Made up of 1x hashing, 1x power delivery and 1x ethernet boards. |
| V1.batch.2-3.5s | - All other blades sold at auction. Have overclockable firmware. |
| V2 | - Now one single board, includes a backpane connector and is slightly smaller. No more overclocking as the necessary hardware is removed. |
| V3 Cube | - A great consumer product with no more wiring, cooling or mounting complications. |
The ASICMiner Cube contains 6 mini blades that hash at ~5.4GH each, mounted on a single motherboard.
0b) What You Need (top)You will need the following:
1) Powering (top)Cubes do not come with a power supply, and you will need a typical computer PSU with:
- 2xPCI-E 6 pin power connectors
- At least 28A on the/each 12V rail
- No load protection. When cubes are turned on they exhibit an immediate burst of high draw, which some larger PSUs identifies as an overload
Estimated power consumption is as follows:
- ~200W (no overclock)
- ~280W (overclock)
I would recommend the following PSUs:
For 1 cube:
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For 2 cubes:
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We also need to tell the PSU to always be on, as there isn't a motherboard to do this. Cut a paper clip into a U and insert it into the green wire and either black
wire to the side of the green wire. Tape it up for safety. The power supply will now be controlled by its switch on the rear socket.
Remember to plug the fuse in [green disk], either way round will do.
2) Cooling (top)Each cube comes with 1x120mm RPM controlled fan which remains quiet at all temperatures. Should the fan fail, the unit will stop hash and so is prevented
against overheating. It is recommended to reverse the fan's direction in order to increase cooling performance (and hash rate). You'll have to unscrew the end
plate with the fan and the 4 silver screws attaching the fan to the end plate to do this.
3) Case (top)The case on the cube is a single extruded tube with two end pieces, held together with 8 screws. Cubes are stackable side to side and top to bottom.
Dimensions are 135.5 x 152.5 x 147.5mm (5.33" x 6.00" x 5.81").
4) Configuration (top)- Power on as above.
- Plug in a network cable from the cube to your router. USB is for debugging only and serves no function for us.
- Change your router's subnet to 1, ie 192.168.1.x. This is just temporary. If this is not possible, see below indented steps.
- Plug in a network cable from the Cube to your computer.
- Disable Wifi if applicable.
- Navigate to Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Centre -> Change Adapter Settings
- Right click on your ethernet adapter -> Properties
- Click on "Internet Protocol Version 4" and click properties
- Select "Use the following IP address" and enter the following:
- IP Address: 192.168.1.1, Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254
- Resume normal steps.
- Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.254:8000 - this goes to the cube's configuration page.
- Change the IP to something memorable like .200. If you have multiple cubes, connect them one by one and change to .200, .201 etc as you go. If you
don't you'll have conflicting IPs. You can also change your subnet back now if you want to. - Cubes use the extinct getwork protocol and so we need to use a stratum proxy. Download the proxy and open the file.
- On the cube config page, enter the server address the IP of the computer with the stratum proxy on. Enter it twice as the cube needs two pools to start
mining, ie "192.168.1.102,192.168.1.102". If you are unsure what IP your computer is at, open cmd and type "ipcongif /all". - Username and password is for Slush's pool, stick with that for now. Again enter it twice, user:password,user:password.
- Click update, then navigate back to the IP of the cube you set using a browser.
- Set clock to high by hitting change clocks.
If you want to change pool, create a .bat file in notepad (save as .bat). Move the stratum proxy to the location below and put the following text inside for your
choice of pool. Change pool port and address for different pools.
Antpool Register!cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Proxy
mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.antpool.com -p 3333
BTCGuild Register!cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Proxy
mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333
GHash IO Register!cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Proxy
mining_proxy.exe -o us1.ghash.io -p 3333
Configuration should look like this:
5) Troubleshooting (top)| Problem | Solution |
| "x" in a row on "Chips". | - There are just a few faulty chips - nothing we can do. |
| Almost all "x" on "Chips". | - A mini hashing board inside is faulty or lose. Open up the case and take a look. |
| There is a rattling sound inside. | - Likely some of the screws have come lose (common), open up the case and take a look. |
| My.Cube.mines.for.a.bit,.but.then.stops.until.reset. | - Take all android phones/tablets OFF the wifi, they interfere for some reason. |
| I can't achieve turbo mode | - Try using two PCI-E connectors from different cable strands. Turbo mode isn't guaranteed so its part luck. |
| My cables are braided or aren't color coded. | - See below diagram for pin-outs.
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I still can't get it to work  | - Post a screenshot with your cube's configuration page, cmd with ipconfig /all and your stratum proxy. |
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6) Where to buy (top)Blades here,Cubes here, EU Cubes here! 
