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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: BTCMiner - Open Source Bitcoin Miner for ZTEX FPGA Boards, 215 MH/s on LX150
by
Schrankwand
on 15/06/2013, 13:52:27 UTC
HI, quick question for everyone.

I have a ZTEX 1.15y with one of the chips broken/Not working. With other FPGAs, reflashing the software has often taken care of such problems.


So, if I wanted to reflash, is THIS the right command?

Code:
java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-121126.jar BTCMiner -m p -pt ztex_ufm1_15y1 -f ztex_ufm1_15y1.ihx

Code is right. What's the problem with the chip ? Immediate downclocking ? I have to restart my board over and over again to use the broken chip. It will mine then with 144 MHz, the others at normal speed. When I have to reboot my PC I do it again. Sometimes it works after 3 times, sometimes after 20 but it always works. Start, let overheat kick in, control C and restart the board. Just set -oh to 0.7 or bigger.

100% Hardware errors.

All others run at 220 and 216 straight. Other chip is declared sick fast, then declared dead and then off within an hour.

The broken chip does not even bring a single piece of work though. I bought it broken and knew it, I was just thinking about a few options that might not have been considered yet. I did reflash and get the code running, however it seems that the FPGA chips cannot be configured one by one, is that right?