My goal is to somehow nerf a antminer s9 harshboard to only use 1-5 asic chips using the standard control board. Anyone know how this could be done?
Firmware ? Any ideas welcome. The goal is to run it off low 5v power supply “solar setup” plug it to ck pool and let it ride . Geckoscience sticks have what 2 asic chips? Do not have the money to buy the gecko. I do have 1 s9 miner with three hashboards and 63 asic chips per board.
Any ideas to help make this happen with what I have please.
You are still going to have to get 12V to the hash boards and the control board not 5V. They are hard wired to convert the 12V from a PCIe plug to the voltage they need.
After that you can pull 2 of the boards, like a lot of us do for converting them into silent space heaters.
Then grab one of the custom firmwares that are out there to shut down most of the chips on the board.
You would also need to figure out fan control, and a few other things, probably not worth the time and effort.
-Dave