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Board Hardware
Re: The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly
by
MrTeal
on 16/01/2014, 16:55:15 UTC
Still having intermittent problems now, but I think these are "normal" ones.  Couple of questions:

- What is the recommended miner and version that seems to perform best with these Chilis (and even what flags enabled/disabled if it's known)?  I'm looking for the most stable, not necessarily the fastest; I'd rather get rid of these intermittent zombie/sick attacks.

- I'm running the 14e version with the 1.1v limitation on both chilis, but one (212 Evo cooled) still gets above 1.1v and predictably craps out sometimes.  The other is fine usually (H60 refurb water cooled).  Any ideas what I can do?  There are heatsinks on the bottom under the mosfets and above on the 4 chips above the heatsinks on the bottom.  Should I be letting some part of it keep warm somehow (cold room in winter), or is there a recommended firmware for this situation?  BTW, the Chili that is acting up has all 16 cores enabled on all 8 chips so I was really hoping the 1.1v limiation would do the trick - but alas, no.

Thanks for any help!
- Tye
I don't really have a preferred version. I believe I'm using 3.8.5, but I just haven't bothered to upgrade. I probably should try again to see if 3.10.0 handles reconnecting USB devices better when I have hub issues.

For the second one, try flashing it again with 1V1, it shouldn't go (much) above 1.1V though 1.11V wouldn't be unexpected. Does it go up to 1.15? You don't need to keep the bottom heatsinks warm during operation, the issues with the boards needing to be warmed up prior to startup with a hair dryer is exclusive to the boards made by Lucko. It shouldn't have an effect on your board.