I suppose I am caught in the middle of this blockchain fiasco because I am simply trying to get a resolution on a defective Antminer that was shipped to me.
 I received two Antminer S1s on March 14th that I had ordered directly from Bitmain. One of them has the newer rev. boards and it works flawlessly. The other has two older rev boards and appears to have been used (has dust all over it) before I received it. That in itself isn't a problem for me, as all I care about  is that it works.
 Sadly though, that old unit they shipped me does not work. The controller board does NOT link to a network at all. I did try several different cat5 cables, switches, laptops etc. I even tried their reset procedure a few times but nothing works.
  I was in the midst of getting support from Bitmain, I did get one response about the reset procedure but since then I have heard nothing from them at all. Hopefully I am only suffering the side effects of the blockchain/ordering problems and they will resume my RMA issues promptly.
 Is anyone else stuck in the middle of this, not related to ordering?

Thank you for the tip. I moved back over as well and it's running smooth. 

Thank you for this! I still am only 153mh per card but that is at least twice as fast as I was running before.

Update:

So after some checking around it appears this mislabeled card is not one that can unlock. So now I have to go through the hassle of sending it back to the retailer.

 

Last week I received two Visiontek R9 290x retail boxes from an online retailer and I immediately noticed that these two cards do not look the same as the four other Visiontek cards I received from a different retailer. That alone doesn't bother be as I do not care that these two cards are dressed as true AMD reference cards.
 What does bother me is that one card seems to run MUCH slower than all of the other cards and for awhile I assumed that perhaps it was a bios issue because the two cards have different BIOS versions. Well now I have learned that may not be the problem. It appears that, accordning to GPUz, the slower card has only 2560 shaders and 160TMUs. All of my other Visiontek cards obviously show 2816 shaders and 176TMUs.

 I searched a bit to see if someone else has encountered this problem. Keep in mind both cards came in retail boxes that clearly say (290x), and I paid for them to be as such, so the mistake isn't mine.

 Has anyone else encountered this?

Should I alert the retailer and ask for an exchange or should I just attempt to unlock the card and forget about it?


Thanks

I got both of my cards running. It turns out I had to connect a monitor to each card and I used the Catalyst 13.11 drivers.



Have you tried the config I posted?
And don't forget to batch start cgminer with:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

I was having the same problem on Friday. I bought two of these:
VisionTek
Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCI E
Manufacturer Part#   900654
UPC Code:   784090032133

I've had one of them running for 50 hours now at an average of 975Kh with this config
"intensity" : "20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "28650",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "1050",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100",
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "78",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"


I was getting the "error -4" message in cgminer when I tried to run the higher TC (this pc only has 4gb of ram). So I worked out this config with one card and when I installed the second card, cgminer would go blank and never run. From there I tried several different configs and nothing worked. The only progress I made was when I installed the drivers from the catalyst 13.3. With that I was able to get cgminer to load, but all I could get was 100% hardware errors, even while testing a few different TCs.
 Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more time to work out the issues, and I'll test them in a different PC .

There is also bte.dsync.net which I am running on.  The pool is just over 300GH right now and climbing.

bte.dsync.net:4444

Ready when you are. 

I managed to get the client installed with only 3 blocks showing. But by the time i got my solo miner setup, there were over 700. lol

Yes the alt-coins certainly dilute the mining base but do they not also dilute the price of the useful coins? For most of this year I have mined other coins, and have profited nicely from them, but now it seems almost pointless because of the rate at which new ones are being released. If you don't get in on the correct new coin within the first few hours you'll end up not profiting anymore than if you had mined one of the major coins.

My reaper settings for the 7870 LE (Tahiti XT) are:

GPU 855
Mem: 1500

worksize 256
vectors 1
aggression 20
threads_per_gpu 1
sharethreads 24
lookup_gap 2
gpu_thread_concurrency 24000

Sometimes I use 16384 instead of 24000, it usually depends on the pool. I get an easy 400-420 kh/s with these settings.

I too would like to be able to post in an Avalon group buy thread. I have been a lurker on this site for several months now, I just haven't posted much.

Thank you

If you want to mine with GPUs it's only late based on your perspective. Most people will tell you it's too late but since the currencies are only a few years old  I would say they're still in their infancy. If you look at it as a long term investment it's probably still very much worth getting into.

Yeah this poor topic has been beaten to death. Obviously the guy wouldn't have done this had he known it's future value.

<~~ Long time lurker on this site, but still stuck in newb status. I've been mining since early 2012 and I wish I had started much earlier, like everyone else.

Thanks for the help.

In some strange cases I have noticed that I need to start with an older version of CCC for older cards. You might want to try CCC 11.12 or earlier to start with.

Hello all.  I registered because I started mining recently and I figured I could offer some useful comments to a particular thread. However being a noob on this forum restricts me to here for now.