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July 17, 2012, 08:54:38 PM
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I reflashed a bitforce1.0 and now it won't work...  I installed the drivers and used the supplied tools (easyminer) from butterfly labs website and loaded the "auto tune" and then a "hot environment" slower clock rate flash and the only ones that work with bitminter are the ones i haven't touched... Sad  I didn't unplug or anything during the code load but i did get an error from the easyminer when i tried to load the auto tune on a few of them at once.  it said it was "out of memory".. did i just brick these or can i at least reset to default?
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July 17, 2012, 08:58:40 PM
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Try reflashing again. Take the power off and plug it back on. Try reflashing AGAIN and power off/on AGAIN. That should do the trick. Try as many times as necessary.
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July 17, 2012, 09:27:51 PM
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I reflashed a bitforce1.0 and now it won't work...  I installed the drivers and used the supplied tools (easyminer) from butterfly labs website and loaded the "auto tune" and then a "hot environment" slower clock rate flash and the only ones that work with bitminter are the ones i haven't touched... Sad  I didn't unplug or anything during the code load but i did get an error from the easyminer when i tried to load the auto tune on a few of them at once.  it said it was "out of memory".. did i just brick these or can i at least reset to default?

Dear Redrider,

Auto-tuning requires some 80MB of RAM, be sure that your system has enough free RAM.
If for any reason easyminer wont complete flashing cycle, the unit won't work and will requires a reflash.


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July 18, 2012, 03:05:07 AM
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I reflashed a bitforce1.0 and now it won't work...  I installed the drivers and used the supplied tools (easyminer) from butterfly labs website and loaded the "auto tune" and then a "hot environment" slower clock rate flash and the only ones that work with bitminter are the ones i haven't touched... Sad  I didn't unplug or anything during the code load but i did get an error from the easyminer when i tried to load the auto tune on a few of them at once.  it said it was "out of memory".. did i just brick these or can i at least reset to default?

Dear Redrider,

Auto-tuning requires some 80MB of RAM, be sure that your system has enough free RAM.
If for any reason easyminer wont complete flashing cycle, the unit won't work and will requires a reflash.


Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

The bottom image was successfully loaded with the autotune package after an error stating that the firmware integrity check had failed.  It says it passes now but theres 0 processors?  The top one is untouched and works... so can i get the alphaminer_MR_1500.bfl anywhere?

http://s9.postimage.org/x67944p1b/alphaminer.png
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July 18, 2012, 06:19:13 AM
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I reflashed a bitforce1.0 and now it won't work...  I installed the drivers and used the supplied tools (easyminer) from butterfly labs website and loaded the "auto tune" and then a "hot environment" slower clock rate flash and the only ones that work with bitminter are the ones i haven't touched... Sad  I didn't unplug or anything during the code load but i did get an error from the easyminer when i tried to load the auto tune on a few of them at once.  it said it was "out of memory".. did i just brick these or can i at least reset to default?

Dear Redrider,

Auto-tuning requires some 80MB of RAM, be sure that your system has enough free RAM.
If for any reason easyminer wont complete flashing cycle, the unit won't work and will requires a reflash.


Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

The bottom image was successfully loaded with the autotune package after an error stating that the firmware integrity check had failed.  It says it passes now but theres 0 processors?  The top one is untouched and works... so can i get the alphaminer_MR_1500.bfl anywhere?



Alphaminer_MR_1500 is for MiniRig, not singles. Can you try manually flashing 816MH/s firmware and see what happens?

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July 18, 2012, 01:21:01 PM
Last edit: July 18, 2012, 02:41:26 PM by redrider
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I reflashed a bitforce1.0 and now it won't work...  I installed the drivers and used the supplied tools (easyminer) from butterfly labs website and loaded the "auto tune" and then a "hot environment" slower clock rate flash and the only ones that work with bitminter are the ones i haven't touched... Sad  I didn't unplug or anything during the code load but i did get an error from the easyminer when i tried to load the auto tune on a few of them at once.  it said it was "out of memory".. did i just brick these or can i at least reset to default?

Dear Redrider,

Auto-tuning requires some 80MB of RAM, be sure that your system has enough free RAM.
If for any reason easyminer wont complete flashing cycle, the unit won't work and will requires a reflash.


Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

The bottom image was successfully loaded with the autotune package after an error stating that the firmware integrity check had failed.  It says it passes now but theres 0 processors?  The top one is untouched and works... so can i get the alphaminer_MR_1500.bfl anywhere?

http://s9.postimage.org/x67944p1b/alphaminer.png

Alphaminer_MR_1500 is for MiniRig, not singles. Can you try manually flashing 816MH/s firmware and see what happens?

Regards,
BF Labs Inc.

Right, each one of these is in a minirig, and i have apparently misread that you can reflash them with the "single" firmwares as I understood it was just a bunch of singles in a box.  I have the correct firmware now.
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July 18, 2012, 02:29:45 PM
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Wait, you tried to relfash a MiniRig to a Single's firmware? Why would you do that?!

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July 18, 2012, 02:39:08 PM
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Wait, you tried to relfash a MiniRig to a Single's firmware? Why would you do that?!
Epic derp.

Protip: do the math, bro. Singles are HALF AS FAST per card versus mini-rig cards. Now if you could flash mini-rig firmware to a Single, that would be more epic but it probably wouldn't work.

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July 18, 2012, 02:40:20 PM
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Wait, you tried to relfash a MiniRig to a Single's firmware? Why would you do that?!

because i read or was told that it was the same chip.  But i have it figured out now, thanks.
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July 18, 2012, 03:24:25 PM
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Wait, you tried to relfash a MiniRig to a Single's firmware? Why would you do that?!

because i read or was told that it was the same chip.  But i have it figured out now, thanks.

Even if it was the same chip AND the bitstreams were compatible, why would you want to go from 1400MH/s to 800MH/s on each card?

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July 18, 2012, 05:15:15 PM
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because i read or was told that it was the same chip.

The Single uses the Stratix III EP3SL150  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79825.0
The Mini Rig uses the Arria II EP2AGX260  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84651.0

Not the same chips.
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July 18, 2012, 05:58:13 PM
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because i read or was told that it was the same chip.

The Single uses the Stratix III EP3SL150  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79825.0
The Mini Rig uses the Arria II EP2AGX260  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84651.0

Not the same chips.


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July 18, 2012, 06:25:24 PM
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The autotune from BFL for the Singles works great - took about 30 minutes and locked in a stable firmware for me
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July 18, 2012, 06:55:46 PM
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because i read or was told that it was the same chip.

The Single uses the Stratix III EP3SL150  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79825.0
The Mini Rig uses the Arria II EP2AGX260  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84651.0

Not the same chips.



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I'm not very smart myself,but............... Roll Eyes


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Btw, I heard that if you flash a 5970 to a 6990 BIOS, you unlock the VLIW4 set, and it's way better for mining! I can't find where I read that tho...

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July 20, 2012, 04:40:45 AM
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Epic derp.

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