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Re: Liquid Synergy Designs Inc. -ASIC mining hardware
by
ionstorm
on 12/11/2013, 15:02:33 UTC
Hey Guys, I'm having trouble getting my K16s to even start up. I'm using a standard ATX PSU (Corsair CX430) it should be a case of plugging it in and getting it running shouldn't it? Am I missing something really obvious here?

I find it hard to believe that everyone of my miners doesn't work, so I must be setting up my PSU wrong, which I didn't think was even possible.


Find the green wire on the 24pin ATX connector and use a paperclip (bare metal) and connect it to the black wire next to it to turn on your PSU.

Also, I found that 5 Klondike16's won't draw enough power at idle to make some powersupplies stay on (All non-haswell compatible PSU's for example) so adding a small load like hooking up an old harddrive to the PSU makes it stay on. Just thought I'd mention it if anybody has troubles with and old psu.

Cheers


Hook up 2 or 3 of them with a molex connector, so the fan is on, and then put a couple of more fans on the power supply. Power supplies need a minimum load to stay on.


thanks for pointing this out for others had to do this myself, freaked out after I plugged in a few F16's and they didnt power up, decided to plug in a dvd-rom to a molex and it powered right up, I switched PSU's to a Silverstone with 4xPCIE and dont have the issue now, I too am using the paperclip method, using a Chromebook CR-48 running archlinux to power 8 K16's