Quote from: chadgroover on January 18, 2014, 09:36:56 AM

@korxax
These things can certainly cause a few headaches at first!!!!
Strange that you're having power issues like that - I've had no issues plugging three of them at a time into my PC's front USB 2 and 3 ports. (Asus P8Z68-V mobo and a Fractal Design R4 case)
I've also had no issues running five of them at once on a powered D-Link hub with a 4a power supply... Maybe check the rating on your hub's power supply.

I'd advise strongly against using cgminer... The driver support is horrible!
I'm using BFG at the moment and have a batch file set up to start mining when the PC is turned on - no intervention needed, it just works!!!

Yeah, they were driving me nuts for a bit. With that and having to learn how to use cgminer at the same time I had some learning to do. I was able to get some of them to work OK on the front USB port on my PC, and another on a cable off of a motherboard header. The ones I had trouble with were the USB ports built into the motherboard I/O panel. I think that was more of a heat issue though. I did have a fan outside my case blowing on them, but the motherboard is pretty warm with 2 video cards also mining in it. The I/O panel itself is pretty warm to the touch, so adding an ant or 3 into that area did drive up the heat levels since they are all connected by metal. I ran a couple of them on 3 foot USB3 extension cables and they seemed to work OK that way, but not with the direct contact with the motherboard. I didn't run them for long that way though since I decided to steal some powered hubs from other PCs at that point. The hubs I was using were cheap, and kinda old. I got them right after I got my first USB 3 capable pc. I don't think they push much amperage. I got my new hub yesterday evening, and it doesn't seem to have a problem running them all, though the ports are a little closer together than I'd like. I ordered 2 more ants so we'll see if it can handle 8. I may put them on extension cables and mount them to old cpu heatsinks. I might even get brave and see if I can solder on a resistor and overclock them more. Grin

I've been thinking about trying bfgminer, I still get a lot of fluctuation in my speeds, and everything drops to 0s for longer than I'd like when I get a new work request from the pool. But now that it's all working I'm not sure I want to go through all that again, I have other stuff I need to do. lol I'm sure it would be easier the second time though. I'll start looking into it. I concentrated all my research on cgminer since that's what people were talking about early in the thread. Would you happen to have a link to a good working version of BFGminer I wouldn't have to compile? Or some good instructions on how to compile specific versions of it? I wouldn't mind learning how to do it, but most of what I've found so far about it is pretty cryptic. As I said, I'm not a programmer. I haven't written any of this kind of stuff since DOS autoexec.bats and config.sys. Maybe when I get the 2 new ones I'll experiment with them on another PC. I'm really hoping Bitminter will add support for them soon. If you have any computer challenged friends that want to mine, send them to Bitminter. Bitminter's client is stupid easy and very fast. But Ant support is still on the to do list.

As to causing headaches... I get Cluster Headaches... (imagine a day long migraine packed into 30-120 minutes and repeat up to 10 times a day.) So any headache caused by hardware problems I can deal with... It's the clusters that scare me. In fact I was just learning about bitcoin and starting to set up to mine 3 years ago when the headaches came back on me (they go into remission from time to time, I've had them since I was 8 years old) and crushed that idea (and every other thought) out of my head. They've finally slowed down so I'm trying to get back into it, unfortunately I lost 3+ years when I could have made a real profit. Angry

Oh well... that's life. Nothing to do about it now but mine. I can't work a real job so I have to do something or I'll go nuts.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into BFGminer. Have had a few more issues while typing this. I now know it isn't heat or power so mining software and drivers are next on the list. But it may have to wait until Monday. Too many other things to do today, and football playoffs tomorrow. I'm a long time Broncos fan living 100 miles north of Seattle. Seahawks would be my 2nd favorite team so it should be an interesting day tomorrow!

Korxax

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