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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
mstrozier
on 25/12/2019, 16:49:34 UTC
Are you using a USB hub or are you plugged directly into a USB port on your computer?

How many amps can your USB connection provide to the MoonLander?

Do you have a multimeter?  If so check the memory and core voltages.  Despite what It says on page 1, all four of my moonlanders are much more stable with the voltages set at .907 running at 924Mhz..

Also try speeding up your com port,   the default speed is 9600bps which is painfully slow.  I set mine to 38,400.

The usb hub is a GekkoScience 7 port hub, 3a per port so more than enough power for these little things.  As I have another one of these hubs powering my newpacs and R606's.   These moonlanders worked on the same machine, the only difference is that I did a fresh windows 10 install onto a M.2 SSD instead of the 1TB Hard Drive that I originally had on this box.    I'm reinstalling again as I noticed issues with the 210x drivers and couldn't get them uninstalled/reinstalled.   Since this drive was fresh to begin with, figured wouldn't hurt resetting everything again Cheesy


** Edit **
Oddly enough it still does it even after fresh install.  Without even plugging the moonlanders or the hub up to the system yet, just run the start_moonlander bat file first as a test, the first thing that pops up is the error "Failed to sanity check in lowl-vcom.c windows_usb_get_string():508"

Then after a few seconds the message waiting on devices appears which I was expecting that message since I haven't plugged them in yet.   This is running on a AsRock H110 pro BTC+ motherboard.   Just odd it was originally working and now it's giving these sanity errors.  If it keeps up I'll loose my own sanity Cheesy Cheesy

I've now moved it to another gpu mining rig. Same setup and it's working fine on that one, no errors.  So that's where it'll stay Cheesy