[GUIDE] GridSeed 5-Chip USB, Blade & Black Miner Support/Tuning

[RowanX]

I seem to have found the COM port numbers for my gridseeds using "USBDeview" (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html) program (COM11 & 12), but still cpuminer isn't finding them. Is this how things look for you guys?

http://pasteboard.co/2m01Cdgj.gif

Don't forget the "\\.\"

Code:

--gc3355=\\.\COM11,\\.\COM12

Yep the syntax in my BAT file is fine in respect to that.

try to change them to an other com port number below 10

I can't find a straight forward way of doing that.. any suggestions?

[jamieb81]

I seem to have found the COM port numbers for my gridseeds using "USBDeview" (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html) program (COM11 & 12), but still cpuminer isn't finding them. Is this how things look for you guys?

http://pasteboard.co/2m01Cdgj.gif

Don't forget the "\\.\"

Code:

--gc3355=\\.\COM11,\\.\COM12

Yep the syntax in my BAT file is fine in respect to that.

try to change them to an other com port number below 10

I can't find a straight forward way of doing that.. any suggestions?

Look at this tutorial for windows and CPUminer, he will show how to change ports as well

[jamieb81]

Can anyone also check on their side the Minered.exe ? cause this is what is found

https://www.virustotal.com/fr/file/36c262c15ee54f24842f990e3775edf4f026f7135563d39a326ba2f85a37026e/analysis/1398305556/

like I said there are alot of false positives in the miner softwares but I prefer to be safe than sorry 

[csmflynt3]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

[wolfey2014]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Sounds like a question for Sandor111.....Yu there Sandi?

[Dabs]

@wolfey2014, have you gotten this new cpuminer to work? I haven't. I'm still using the older cpuminer for my gridseeds.

In theory, if the old one worked, I just have to run this new one without changing anything.

[wolfey2014]

@wolfey2014, have you gotten this new cpuminer to work? I haven't. I'm still using the older cpuminer for my gridseeds.

In theory, if the old one worked, I just have to run this new one without changing anything.

Yep, been running it for a few hours now. Very nice performance. I'm very impressed with Sandor111s work! Just what the Wolfey and Jamieb ordered

[Dabs]

Ok, I need help then. I can't get it to work. LOL. Let me go back to my rig tonight and see what I'm doing and post here.

[sunderstan]

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

[sandor111]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Yes this will require two instances.

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

Is that on Windows? Did you try the latest build from https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc3lvysi8vtrt00/minerd-gc3355 ?

[unamis76]

I have a 5chip up for around 10 hours at 850 Mhz and during this time it produced 87 HW errors... Is this normal? I was running it so far at 700 Mhz and saw 10 HW/day, more or less.

[sunderstan]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Yes this will require two instances.

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

Is that on Windows? Did you try the latest build from https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc3lvysi8vtrt00/minerd-gc3355 ?

Yes I'm on Windows 7 Professional x64, using STM's com port driver and latest binary but problem still persists. Do you have some debug option available so I can possibly track down the root cause?

[sandor111]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Yes this will require two instances.

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

Is that on Windows? Did you try the latest build from https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc3lvysi8vtrt00/minerd-gc3355 ?

Yes I'm on Windows 7 Professional x64, using STM's com port driver and latest binary but problem still persists. Do you have some debug option available so I can possibly track down the root cause?

Check your COM port settings.



Wolfey2014's idea to turn off FIFO buffers.

Personally I never had a problem on Windows with cpuminer (even before disabling FIFO).

[wolfey2014]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Yes this will require two instances.

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

Is that on Windows? Did you try the latest build from https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc3lvysi8vtrt00/minerd-gc3355 ?

Yes I'm on Windows 7 Professional x64, using STM's com port driver and latest binary but problem still persists. Do you have some debug option available so I can possibly track down the root cause?

Check your COM port settings.



Wolfey2014's idea to turn off FIFO buffers.

Personally I never had a problem on Windows with cpuminer (even before disabling FIFO).

Thanks for the recognition Sandor! I'm flattered

Yep, FIFO buffers seem to act like a Slowly Clogging Drain pipe! Little by little it builds up more and more crud and eventually stops up completely and kills the comm' flow = no mining.
This is due largely to the way FIFO buffers are set up to handle two way data streams. The 16550 UART protocol is designed to work with printers, faxes, hard drives etc. that flow data intermittently thereby making it easy for the FIFO's to do their thing. But when you have constant high speed two way data traffic as with our miners, it's overwhelming the buffers and eventually an overflow problem occurs, data packets are lost into the ether and the system spits dummy and halts because it forgot which packets go where and when. Lost data = lost instructions = drop outs! End of story = PIA random restarts.
Turn off FIFO's = all clear pipes = ZERO drop outs = wonderful 24/7 no fuss, no muss stable operation = frikkin !!yay!! city = more profit$!!!!

[Kergekoin]

Could someone please upload Sandor cpuminer windows compliled exe.
And please point to instructions for running that miner.
Thank you!

[jamieb81]

Could someone please upload Sandor cpuminer windows compliled exe.
And please point to instructions for running that miner.
Thank you!

this one is the one from Sandor, there are two bat files in there as well, but just for one miner, if you run more miners you just ad this kind of lines

\\.\COM1,\\.\COM2 etc.. depending in what comport your miners are

https://mega.co.nz/#!XVpnzSCD!fsapJ1KNbI9JhHLU9_0WaemQ4bdpfKeUsEyV3TeV6cE

[sunderstan]

This is working great getting much better resuts than with cgminer/bfgminer on my blades. I am not sure how I can run one instance of cpuminer with blades and gridseeds though. Is this possible or would it have to be 2 separate instances due to the chips=40 or chips=5 flags?

Thanks

Yes this will require two instances.

I'm experiencing an annoying issue using CPUMiner. My Gridseeds, especially the G-Blades, stop sending shares in a middle of nowhere that I'm forced to restart the device every5~10 minutes or so. No I don't have such problem using Zadig+cgminer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

Is that on Windows? Did you try the latest build from https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc3lvysi8vtrt00/minerd-gc3355 ?

Yes I'm on Windows 7 Professional x64, using STM's com port driver and latest binary but problem still persists. Do you have some debug option available so I can possibly track down the root cause?

Check your COM port settings.

https://i.imgur.com/0OpPZID.png

Wolfey2014's idea to turn off FIFO buffers.

Personally I never had a problem on Windows with cpuminer (even before disabling FIFO).

I've done disabling FIFO on all devices but problem still persists. Imma go back to cgminer and transform the OS to ubuntu this weekend and have another go. Thanks for the advise.

[rrob]

Anyone able to get cgminer to work with blades on windows to detect all of them every time?  Plug in  one by one trick doesnt always work

[csmflynt3]

Working just fine with 2 instances and I am seeing significant hashrate increase due to the auto tune feature (very nice) although it seems that 838 is probably the best best with the blades. Is there a list of available commands? I really just want to see what pool I am currently connected to if that is possible with cpuminer. I like the cgminer/bfgminer interface , but this new cpuminer is superior in performance.

[gtraah]

Can someone compile me a windows version of https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 to test?

PLEASE if someone can do this it would be great, are there fixes??? I am going crazy here ... Something is not right, my pool hashrate is now less than half of the power of the gridseeds... I am using Cgminer I have win 8 64 bit I have 2 powered hubs when I was using 1 powered hub it all seemed fine but when I chucked another powere hub into the mix All went down hill It is VERY dissapointing.

I do not know how to compile a windows version i dont understand why its not compiled it for windows at the time of fininshing

EDIT: wait a minute how do we know this is the latest version, why does it show the files on there as 2 months ago?