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Board Mining support
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Re: Bitfury B8's not hashing
by
FluffyMuffin005
on 13/12/2019, 21:13:38 UTC
⭐ Merited by HashNOOB (3)
Thank you again for the follow up and trying to help.  I am running mine on a single 220v 40A so that should be plenty on my end.  I am really leaning towards it not being a defective back plane at this point as I have been testing on multiple machines.  I emailed Bitfury support a few times over the last couple weeks and never received a response.  This is getting a little frustrating lol.

Was utilizing the jumper to update the firmware a solid requirement for getting your miners up and running?  I tried the exact process you described, but did not have any luck:
1.)  Flash a SD card with Openminer v1.2 image
2.)  With the jumper added to the MB, connect to the miner and run a firmware update (I am using a makeshift jumper - penny and electrical tape)
3.)  Once the firmware is updated, restart the miner and remove the jumper for normal operations.

I tried this scenario with both v1.2 as well as 1.3.3.  I also tried Slushpool, Antpool, BTC.com, and Kano pool.  If the the jumper/firmware update process the main determining factor which allowed you to finally start hashing, I can order a handful of jumpers just to make sure of the outcome of that process.

I emailed Bitfury Support for a 4th time today so hopefully that might wake them up (not holding my breath).  I am willing to pay someone for support at this point because I am losing money everyday by not having these machines up and running.  Please keep me updated if you have any additional ideas.

Best,
-Shane