BAMT Quick Start Guide For Newbies!

[Cablez]

I see now D&T. 

So is BAMT not working out for your rigs with cgminer?  I thought it was included so it is pretty much plug and play. 

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[DeathAndTaxes]

BAMT is x86 only.  That means no 8 GPU rigs (at least I have never gotten it to work).  I am converting all my rigs to 8 GPU rigs for improved efficiency.   The other minor annoyance is you need to build cgminer from source if you want to upgrade.  There are no x86 binaries for cgminer so it isn't as easy a "wget" and decompress.

If you only want to use 6 ( not sure about 7) GPU per rig then I found BAMT very "plug and play".  
Download the img, use the writer to write it to a USB stick.  BAMT includes a "fixer" daemon which downloads and installs hotfixes.  Very nice "setup" it just doesn't work w/ 8 GPUs.   I held out hope because developer said he was testing x64 version but "it didn't work".  I guess it was a closed beta so I was never able to try it out.

[Cablez]

I have the x64 0.5 BAMT image if you want to try it out. PM me.

I believe lodcrappo said stability issues were the biggest problem he was having with it.  Also that he didn't have an 8 gpu rig for proper testing (solely beta testers).

[lodcrappo]

If you do want to set the clock speeds then scroll down to you see
core_speed_0 : ####
etc and plug in your speeds and take of the "# "

no, no, no

A number of people have been locking up their cards this way lately.  Silly me to think miners would know what the ATI profiles are for.

*Do* *not* change  anything except profile 2, except in very specific situations.  If you don't know why you need to change profile 1 or 0 (rare) then *do* *not* change them!  You will lock up your rig or cause it to be unstable at a much lower clock rate than is normal.


They are commented out (disabled) in the config for a reason.  Don't uncomment anything, ever, unless you know why.

I'm LodCrappo, and I appove of this message.

[lodcrappo]

BAMT is x86 only.  That means no 8 GPU rigs (at least I have never gotten it to work).  I am converting all my rigs to 8 GPU rigs for improved efficiency.   The other minor annoyance is you need to build cgminer from source if you want to upgrade.  There are no x86 binaries for cgminer so it isn't as easy a "wget" and decompress.

If you only want to use 6 ( not sure about 7) GPU per rig then I found BAMT very "plug and play".  
Download the img, use the writer to write it to a USB stick.  BAMT includes a "fixer" daemon which downloads and installs hotfixes.  Very nice "setup" it just doesn't work w/ 8 GPUs.   I held out hope because developer said he was testing x64 version but "it didn't work".  I guess it was a closed beta so I was never able to try it out.

7 GPUs works fine. 

8 does not work.

There will be an x64 bamt once:

a) more people whine about not being 64 than whine about not being 32

or

b) i can afford to put in the time to maintain 2 images

[Red Emerald]

If you do want to set the clock speeds then scroll down to you see
core_speed_0 : ####
etc and plug in your speeds and take of the "# "

no, no, no

A number of people have been locking up their cards this way lately.  Silly me to think miners would know what the ATI profiles are for.

*Do* *not* change  anything except profile 2, except in very specific situations.  If you don't know why you need to change profile 1 or 0 (rare) then *do* *not* change them!  You will lock up your rig or cause it to be unstable at a much lower clock rate than is normal.


They are commented out (disabled) in the config for a reason.  Don't uncomment anything, ever, unless you know why.

I'm LodCrappo, and I appove of this message.

I believe lowering mem clocks, which is incredibly common, requires setting all 3 profile levels.  You will have problems if you try and have your memory at 1000, 1000, and 280.

[lodcrappo]

If you do want to set the clock speeds then scroll down to you see
core_speed_0 : ####
etc and plug in your speeds and take of the "# "

no, no, no

A number of people have been locking up their cards this way lately.  Silly me to think miners would know what the ATI profiles are for.

*Do* *not* change  anything except profile 2, except in very specific situations.  If you don't know why you need to change profile 1 or 0 (rare) then *do* *not* change them!  You will lock up your rig or cause it to be unstable at a much lower clock rate than is normal.


They are commented out (disabled) in the config for a reason.  Don't uncomment anything, ever, unless you know why.

I'm LodCrappo, and I appove of this message.

I believe lowering mem clocks, which is incredibly common, requires setting all 3 profile levels.  You will have problems if you try and have your memory at 1000, 1000, and 280.

Some GPUs will not let you set a value in profile X that is lower than profile X-1.  Others don't care.

AFAIK there is never any reason to adjust profiles 0 and 1 unless you want to lower things in profile 2 and the card won't let you.  A number of people lately seem to be just setting all 3 profiles to their o/c settings, which pretty much guarantees their rig will lock up often and hard.

Stick to profile 2 unless you know why you need to change something else.

[dropt]

Some GPUs will not let you set a value in profile X that is lower than profile X-1.  Others don't care.

AFAIK there is never any reason to adjust profiles 0 and 1 unless you want to lower things in profile 2 and the card won't let you.  A number of people lately seem to be just setting all 3 profiles to their o/c settings, which pretty much guarantees their rig will lock up often and hard.

Stick to profile 2 unless you know why you need to change something else.

I edited all three fields to.... *drumroll please*  all the default values provided in AMDOvrdrivectrl with the exception of profile 2 which are the settings that I've found my cards to be stable at.  Of all the options in the conf file, I found this to be the most intuitive...  Strange people are having issues with this.

[PandaMiner]

Open Win32 Disk Imager and select the image file bamt_v0.5c.img
Next select your usb drive letter under the Device dropdown menu

I can't get w32di to work on my win7x64 machine. the drop-down drive selector just stays blank.

[crashoveride54902]

+1000 for this guide...was able to setup bamt and finally get more then one card to work...although the setup fought me every step of the way, i was able to figure it out...and alittle help from tech1 on IRC...Thanks!!! keep up the good work

[Economics]

Yes, the guide worked great.  Now I'm trying to use a Wireless PCI card and can't figure out where to start.

I can see wlan0 in 'iwconfig', but I don't see any GUI in the System Tray or Menu to set the SSID/key.  I can change /etc/network/interfaces, but that gets overwritten each boot because this is a live USB.

Any suggestions?

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[pr0d1gy]

Bamt works great... Except for 1 thing... It will never go to auto boot, it freezes when it says "running bamt" i have to use the fail safe every time.... Any clues?

[hodginsa]

Bamt works great... Except for 1 thing... It will never go to auto boot, it freezes when it says "running bamt" i have to use the fail safe every time.... Any clues?

I would guess that some driver and/or piece of hardware that doesn't run in fail safe mode is causing an error, so when you run normal, it tries to start but hangs instead.

[pr0d1gy]

Bamt works great... Except for 1 thing... It will never go to auto boot, it freezes when it says "running bamt" i have to use the fail safe every time.... Any clues?

I would guess that some driver and/or piece of hardware that doesn't run in fail safe mode is causing an error, so when you run normal, it tries to start but hangs instead.

Eh, figured it was something beyond my control. Failsafe works fine tho, i only restart the rig like once a week or even less... But was just trying to have backup when power goes down or something...  Thanks tho!

[kingscrown]

i have this bamt problem - anybody can help?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=493395.msg5438366#msg5438366

[finanso]

Hi. I have newest BAMT but I have problem with power off..

After some time of mining (~30min) X11, bamt just going off.

I have power lost [ON] on motherboard and bamt is coming back to desktop.

Any ideas?