6. Bad & Dead Chips

You might have dead chips (marked as A) on your board that want go anywhere else then 0, ... and autotune ("a") will even be turn of on them and you might have bad chips which autotune will probably tune down to 0 clockspeed, but still autotune ("A") will be turned on (marked as B).



For dead chips there is no solution from software side that I know off. There might be some Hardware possibilities ... I don't know.

For bad chips there is!

First you need to turn of autotune "A" to "a" so that they wont be turned down to 0, because right know as long as they produce to many errors, they will be turned down until 0.

To start of set there clockspeed to 55 on the bad chip and let him run for 10-15 min. Check again. If he is performing better or not ... find a good rate between good and error. You might go down to 54 or 53 ... just check again, where the bad chip is performing at his max. potential ... at the end it might look like this one ...


It might even be that bad chips get again running fine after running for hours (>24h) ... some users mentioned that bitfury chips have an integrated selfhealing mechanisme ... :-)