Fury/Blizzard tuning and mods

[nst6563]

Here is a small mod you may add to the OP for the fan of the fury.

I checked the oil well on the fan that comes with the fury. Dry as a bone.

http://acehardwaremaldives.com/product/auto/10705/
http://www.overclock.net/t/773256/prepping-a-sleeve-bearing-fan-for-work

Note to nst6563
Maybe nst may put that link in the mod section of the OP or second of the OP. It's best to control the fury/blizard by manual diff?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=645532.0

Maybe if you can nst, throw both of these into your mod/tuning section somewhere?

1st post updated.  Sorry, was out of commission most of the day with a migraine...I hate those things.

[djkyno]

Mine was a GAW...

Sent an email. Still waiting for reply to advice on what to do...

[Adz]

Yes. The smell come from within the miner.

No visible damage to me.


It's a very normal setting
--zeus-cc 6 --zeus-rc 300 --zeus-cg --zeus-clk 340 -S zeus:\\.\COM4 --no-submit-stale

Is it Zeus or GAW? You seem to have a legitimate case for warranty replacement.

I also just had one of my zeus blizzards die (no smell just wont detect on any com port on any computer). Emailed tree@zeusminer.com with details.  Im hoping its not going to be 7x days in email back and forth before they send out a replacement which will likely take another 7x days to arrive 
Was running it under spec as it has always been an under performing miner so was only at 300 cl and no mods.

[djkyno]

Same situation. not detecting any com port.. i am praying hard too.

[djkyno]

Mine is from the Week 4 fury.

Edit:
After 1 got down, i decided to set my 1 and only leftover in this setup. hoping to cool it to the max before my heatsink arrive.

[djkyno]

I wish i could take it apart and get the experts here to help me take a look. in this case i need not send the item back to them, wait for check , and wait for them to send back..it might be a 14 day to 21 day process..

[djkyno]

Progress of exchanging email now. Had the idea of asking them to let me use their cloud mining for this period of time untill my new unit gets to me.

[J4bberwock]

Same situation. not detecting any com port.. i am praying hard too.

the USB chip is powered by the 12v plug after converting from 12v to 3.3v with SPX1117-3.3

If you don't have 12v anymore, the usb won't work.

hopefully, there are many test points with labels on them, so it's easy to track the defect.

[J4bberwock]

Got a reply, but seem like a copy and paste reply. Asking me to send the item back to some address. but it did not state must i send back the whole set. or just the machine itself. And also i did mention my concern...totally ignore it...disappointed with GAW team.

1. Delay Shipment
2. Machine down with burn smell coming out. (shock of my life)

You will have the shock of your life when a capacitor will explode in front of you when powering the pcb.
I had one on my first Gridseed blade and another one in a psu that exploded litterally to my face with a big flash when loading it at 15A when it was rated 90A. Don't buy cheap psu...

Regarding GAW, they are still looking for my week 1 Fury that is lost somewhere. I received in the meantime the 5 fury pack from my week 3 order. And still waiting for another 5 fury pack that is waiting to be collected from them since Tuesday.
I had 3 DOA gridseed that were refunded in store credit even before they received my package.I simply gave them the tracking number and the 50$ invoice for sending them back. Even the 50$ I paid were credited to my account when I asked, so on this one, they were really nice.

[djkyno]

Wow, you encounter much more worst scenerio than me..lol im not sure if they will pay me for my shipping back to them LOL!!

but definitely i would not want to see explosion right in my face haha. i might just faint.

EDit: Anyone had any idea, if i were to refund, do i ship only the machine itself back or with the component that came together?

[thebotnet]

hope you guys get replacements quickly, and they should compensate for missed time mining.

[bitcoinmon]

Great thread, keep it up!

I should be getting my Fury tomorrow according to the shipping info.  I have a feeling I'll have some questions soon

Out of curiosity, would you recommend hashra over starminer?  I have a raspberry pi with starminer loaded on it already, but I don't know which is better.

[J4bberwock]

Wow, you encounter much more worst scenerio than me..lol im not sure if they will pay me for my shipping back to them LOL!!

but definitely i would not want to see explosion right in my face haha. i might just faint.

EDit: Anyone had any idea, if i were to refund, do i ship only the machine itself back or with the component that came together?

I'd say power supply and fury, maybe they will tell you just the fury.
Don't wait for a RMA number. It will be the number you got in the mail when asking for the return.
It took 3 or 4 days before I got an RMA accepted email, but they told me to send it back the first day I contacted them.
And ask for a refund on your shipping cost. They will probably accept it.

[djkyno]

Finally i finish my process and shipped out the equipment.

LOL i did not ask for a refund on the shipping fee it's like quite cheap to ship it back to US from singapore.

[bit_NINj4]

Wow.. I don't have many words that can accurately describe this mess from Zeus/GAW.

And to think, that this is only the beginning. This is surely going to test the mettle of GAW.

Sink or swim time.

[djkyno]

Hopefully, they can swim through this tide.

Actually i wont blame them totally, manufacturer is cocking the process
they are shorthanded to handle tickets and respond on time.

But in fact they did try their very best to fulfill every clients request within their mean. And this is really admirable for a business.

[worldlybedouin]

... manufacturer is cocking the process...

THIS ^^^ more than anything will hurt GAW.  Zeus Miner screwed over individual buyers and resellers like GAW who have to deal with the fallout of their shady behavior and power hungery products.

[kcal63]

Thanks for all the info guys.
I am banging my head against the wall right now, have gone through so so many configs, mining software versions and flavors, different controllers etc. literally everything I have been able to think of and even underclocked by 10% my Fury is consistently giving a 30% -40% error rate with 20% of them HW errors. At the suggested 328 freq I get 60%-70% errors. I can not at any freq get a hash rate above 1.2 (and that is fleeting , never lasting more than a minute or so) even clocked at 344 I get a hash rate around 900 khs (although it fluctuates wildly with readings showing from 6.8 MHS to 30 khs) on the poolside I never get above 1 mhs, ever, no matter what my config.
Adding the --nocheck-scrypt lowered my error rate from the 40%-50% range but still its too high to use.

About ready to RMA it. Any thoughts?
Did I just get a bad one?

[ZiG]

Thanks for all the info guys.
I am banging my head against the wall right now, have gone through so so many configs, mining software versions and flavors, different controllers etc. literally everything I have been able to think of and even underclocked by 10% my Fury is consistently giving a 30% -40% error rate with 20% of them HW errors. At the suggested 328 freq I get 60%-70% errors. I can not at any freq get a hash rate above 1.2 (and that is fleeting , never lasting more than a minute or so) even clocked at 344 I get a hash rate around 900 khs (although it fluctuates wildly with readings showing from 6.8 MHS to 30 khs) on the poolside I never get above 1 mhs, ever, no matter what my config.
Adding the --nocheck-scrypt lowered my error rate from the 40%-50% range but still its too high to use.

About ready to RMA it. Any thoughts?
Did I just get a bad one?

Cooling...Did you apply some of the cooling mods proposed here...

[happydaze]

Thanks for all the info guys.
I am banging my head against the wall right now, have gone through so so many configs, mining software versions and flavors, different controllers etc. literally everything I have been able to think of and even underclocked by 10% my Fury is consistently giving a 30% -40% error rate with 20% of them HW errors. At the suggested 328 freq I get 60%-70% errors. I can not at any freq get a hash rate above 1.2 (and that is fleeting , never lasting more than a minute or so) even clocked at 344 I get a hash rate around 900 khs (although it fluctuates wildly with readings showing from 6.8 MHS to 30 khs) on the poolside I never get above 1 mhs, ever, no matter what my config.
Adding the --nocheck-scrypt lowered my error rate from the 40%-50% range but still its too high to use.

About ready to RMA it. Any thoughts?
Did I just get a bad one?

Have you tried different pools?  I've found that with these Zeus chip devices you really have to find the right combo of pool + miner software.

Is your OS Windows?

This BFGMiner 4.2.2 https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=20477.0 as noted by jekv2 can work really great on some pools.  I can get 1,600 kh/s average on Litecoinpool (straight LTC) with my overvolted Fury.

Dmaxl's first windows cgminer build also works well for me: CGMiner v4.3.5.beta1release  I managed to get one Fury to 1,588 kh/s average on Litecoinpool so almost as fast as BFGMiner 4.2.2.  Cgminer 4.3.5 seems to be compatible with more pools though.  I'm running 1 Fury on CoinKING with Cgminer 4.3.5 beta 1.  I couldn't with BFGMiner 4.2.2.

I tried Dmaxl's second windows cgminer build -> CGMiner v4.3.5.beta2 release on CoinKING but switched back to the first release because it looks like I was getting a few more errors.  It might work better for you.

The options are set differently in BFGMiner 4.2.2 and CGMiner 4.3.5

CGMiner 4.3.5 --zeus-clock 328 --zeus-nocheck-golden --zeus-chips 6 --scan-serial //./COM4
BFGMiner 4.2.2 --zeus-cc 6 --zeus-clk 328 --zeus-rc 300 -S zeus:\\.\COM4

Edit: dmaxl's CGMiner v4.3.5.beta2 release might make it to 1,600 kh/s for me.  My 24 hr avg poolside is heading up.  1,591 kH/s right now.