Re: [GUIDE] GridSeed Miner Support/Tuning

I'm having some big issues with my Gridseed 5 chip miner.

The issues are:
1.When I used the official miner (CPUMiner one I think),no matter how many times it shows 'Dispatching new work...' I never see any shares submitted to the pools I use (no matter which pool I use and with their corrent URLs,clevermining.com,multipool.us and coinshift.com) so I gave up ever hoping I'd get the full 400+Kh/s as promised from my miner so I changed to CGminer 3.72 which does get shares submitted but I get much less than half of the total hashpower/coins I'm supposed to have mined on all the pools I've used.
2.CGminer often says accepted yet I never see the shares in my pool even though my internet connections ok and plugged in ok via the USB port.

I've tried everything I know of to remedy this but to no avail and am pretty frustrated now since there's no improvement and the instructions are even harder to understand than why I'm having issues in the first place.

If someone can just help me get back on track,I'd really apreciate this as I didn't spend nearly £300 for a miner that only performs at 50% or less of it's capacity (paperwight).Thanks

It's probably not the fault of cpuminer or CGminer for that matter. Cpuminer works great. You can keep track of how fast it's hashing via pool stats which are fairly accurate averages of what the pool is seeing which is what actually counts anyway. Your local hash rate means diddly in this case.

It sounds to me like either your GS5 has no 12V power going to it or perhaps is being underpowered.
Is the cooling fan running? If so, you have 12V power and if the LED's are on and flashing, you have 5V USB power.

The only other things that can cause your problem are incorrect port speed settings or poor serial communications or, the GS5 unit is basically bad and should be returned to the reseller for a prompt replacement or refund.

Let me know if this helps you.
My hashers have been and are working perfectly on cpuminer.

Wolfey2014

Ok it's plugged in with the mains adaptor (fan is running) and the USB so it's not a power issue.Since the ASIC does submit shares but the connection is unstable,I think there may be an issue with the connection.I just wish these things were easier to spot and that all miners came with straighforward apps like the BFLs with their Easy Miner.

Anyway this is the log that I have:

Code:

cgminer version 3.7.2 - Started: [2014-03-15 10:33:14]
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(5s):425.5K (avg):422.2Kh/s | A:9216 R:1024 HW:0 WU:0.1/m
ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 745 LW: 4333 GF: 10 RF: 0
Connected to mine.coinshift.com diff 128 with stratum as user 1AwgPR37CMjqfHKjL
Block: c036f449... Diff:1.11K Started: [18:38:20] Best share: 103K
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[P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GSD 0: 6D74556D5148 1000 MHz | 425.5K/422.2Kh/s | A:9216 R:1024 HW:0 WU:0.1/m
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[2014-03-15 18:26:39] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:28:45] Accepted 01b6821c Diff 149/128 GSD 0
[2014-03-15 18:29:55] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:30:22] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:30:46] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:31:22] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:31:50] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:34:51] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:35:38] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:36:11] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:36:19] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:37:27] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-03-15 18:38:20] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

It's been running since last night but I guess it 'forgets' things that aren't recent.I sometimes see a 'failed to detect device.' message then a moment later it says 'device found' meaning that the USb connection may be unstable but the hard part is how to fix this. :/

You cannot use a freq of 1000 with cgminer currently! If you do you will see exactly what you explained...no submitted shares at the pool. Max is 950.

Be happy that you are getting more than the officially stated 300 Kh/s! Who promised you 400?