Getting your bad die0 running on a KNC Box

This is my suggestion for KNC boxes that have
the Die0 problem, and have it BAD. Try it at your own risk.

I have a defective Die 0 KNC Mercury, I had it heated up slightly to get it at 143gh,

but a week ago after Eligius got DDos'd, my box went nuts and only hashed at 45-90gh.

After 5 days, it seemed permanent. Nothing I tried worked. It was more fucked up than before.

This was the only 100% reliable way to bring it back to 143gh:

Put .99tune bin on, get the temp to 85-89 C. No more, no less.

Do this by unplugging the beaglebone fans, (leave the main heatsink fan ON)
and cover the ventilation holes with whatever. Adjust the temp by adjusting the
amount of ventilation holes open. Attain your
stable temp through trial and error.

Wait and watch your stats in Advanced tab in your miner. It will pop and stabilize eventually, if not immediately.

At 92C, you get that funny chemical smell in the air. Be careful, stay under 90C.<<<correction: OK to 92C on my Mercury.

Don't mess with the voltages in .99tune bin. Leavem'. <<<correction: Actual settings for my stubborn Mercury: -0.1003v on all dies.

Some people complain about the heat treatment,

but WTF, when we got these they had us break a paperclip

and jump a plug in a completely jury rigged fashion anyway.

We were already taking chances, and lately, time and gigahashes are money.

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otherwise, enjoy the free info.

my 2 cents about mining....

Wot a fucking racket. I got a defective miner, late.
Still, I paid 2100usd, so I made out better than the
guys who paid 18btc. Their fucken miner cost 17,000usd!!!!
But getting defective equipment in a time sensitive environment
and basically being told YOUR SHIT OUT OF LUCK sucks enough,
but getting locked out of upgrade board purchases and "customer"
specials by a feeding frenzy of greed driven lemmings who buy out
the offering in minutes REALLY SUCKS. I hope those motherfuckers
crash and burn. I really do. Especially the assholes who spent 30-100g's.
In this kind of endeavor, human nature expresses itself honestly.
The display has been sickening. To those with a witty rejoinder I would
pre-emptively like to give you a heartfelt FUCK YOU.

In the end, as a guy who heard about bitcoin 7 months ago,
bought a miner in August, lucked out, got one and has mined for 36 days, I can't complain.
I've mined 4.10 BTC, parlayed that into 6.17BTC, paid my rent for December ($1000) with 1BTC,
and am now down to 5.17 BTC, 10NMC. So, for 1100usd, I have 5.17BTC + 10NMC.
I earn .11 BTC a day mining, with the diff changes I should earn about 10btc more by 2015.
There you have it, an honest rundown of owning a fucked up KNC Mercury,
and dealing with a company that has gone bat-shit greedy in record time.
I thank them for not BFLing me: KNC was extremely honorable in this regard,
Indeed, they ARE the reason for the season, so to speak,
but I will not purchase from them again.
I will give props where props are deserved though, so, THANK YOU KNC.

Oddly enough, I feel I must add that I was also disappointed on the racial level.
As a person of Swedish heritage, I felt a romantic, misguided sense of pride in
a people I don't really know. The messed up miner, the flimsy box it was in, the
customer support, it all made me have my doubts. I didn't expect to have to do detective work
on 1st gen custom hardware with minimum command guidance from the manufacturer.

In the end, they did treat us (defective miner folks) like a buncha fucken skraelings.
It was good to get that off my chest.