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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 12/03/2014, 01:26:42 UTC
*Unrelated to the thread*

I was curious if anyone knows a good site to sell a few cubes for BTC?  I have two or 3 that I'd like to let go of to make room for some other gear...
Just Amazon them

Even for BTC?  Okay, I'll have a look... thanks.
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 10/03/2014, 13:32:58 UTC
*Unrelated to the thread*

I was curious if anyone knows a good site to sell a few cubes for BTC?  I have two or 3 that I'd like to let go of to make room for some other gear...
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 21/01/2014, 15:51:43 UTC
Hi miners. I have this problem.

My cube run good when i am in work. When i am not at home.

When come home parrents and me and turn on computers or TV or i dont know what cube stop hashing and start next day on morning.

I dont know where is problem. Can any pc or TV with lan interrupt my cube?

Please if have anybody any solution send me any settings for cube.
Here or on email donkezz@gmail.com

Maybe set two different subnets? All devices in first subnet and notebook with proxy and cube to second subnet ?

I try setup different dns, web port, IPs i dont know how can i fix it.

Here is when is hashing very slow.
http://i.imgur.com/R0rr5Wu.jpg

Here is when hashing good.
http://i.imgur.com/DvnZkbH.jpg

I try it setup about 20 days but not working 24 hours nonstop. Max 10-12 hours.

Thanks


Yes, it is possible that you cannot draw enough power on the circuit you have the cube's power supply plugged into if you have a lot of other equipment (tv's, computers, etc) all plugged into the same power cable.  I'm not sure where you are physically located (globally), but in the US we usually have no more that 12 plugs (6 outlets) on a single circuit.  If this is the case, you should try moving your cube to another room, one that perhaps doesn't have anything else in it... maybe an unused bedroom, or little used basement area. 

Hmm i can try but i have it in the roome where is only one notebook with proxy one cube and one fridge (icebox).
Problem is in the power or can be in the lan subnet ?. If only power circuit i try it change.

Thanks

The only reason your LAN would affect it is if you have miss IP'ed something so that the cube shares an IP with one of your computers.  You could verify that each device has an IP address separate from the others on your network; this is one reason I wish the cubes would use DHCP.  I digress, just make sure each device has it's own unique IP on your LAN and you should be fine there...  One way to ensure this is to have your router's DHCP server issue IP addresses in a known range; say... 192.168.1.10 ~ 192.168.1.50, and then set your cube IP addresses manually to 192.168.1.101, 102, ... etc.  Then when computers or devices fetch a DCHP address, they'll automatically be assigned within your range (10 ~ 50) and would never interfere with the cubes.

Just a thought.



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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 21/01/2014, 15:04:31 UTC
Hi miners. I have this problem.

My cube run good when i am in work. When i am not at home.

When come home parrents and me and turn on computers or TV or i dont know what cube stop hashing and start next day on morning.

I dont know where is problem. Can any pc or TV with lan interrupt my cube?

Please if have anybody any solution send me any settings for cube.
Here or on email donkezz@gmail.com

Maybe set two different subnets? All devices in first subnet and notebook with proxy and cube to second subnet ?

I try setup different dns, web port, IPs i dont know how can i fix it.

Here is when is hashing very slow.
http://i.imgur.com/R0rr5Wu.jpg

Here is when hashing good.
http://i.imgur.com/DvnZkbH.jpg

I try it setup about 20 days but not working 24 hours nonstop. Max 10-12 hours.

Thanks


Yes, it is possible that you cannot draw enough power on the circuit you have the cube's power supply plugged into if you have a lot of other equipment (tv's, computers, etc) all plugged into the same power cable.  I'm not sure where you are physically located (globally), but in the US we usually have no more that 12 plugs (6 outlets) on a single circuit.  If this is the case, you should try moving your cube to another room, one that perhaps doesn't have anything else in it... maybe an unused bedroom, or little used basement area. 
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 17/01/2014, 13:52:50 UTC
I just installed the new fans in a reverse fashion... so air now is sucked through the rear grate and exhausted through the side where the power and ethernet connections are.  Again; for my application, this is a much better design but I wanted to mention that it wasn't a problem; however, to prevent the fans power cable from being sucked into the fan, I routed it from the bottom section of the fan to the power lead.  The power wire is usually coming from the upper left of the cube (as you face it level), this had to change to make the wire shorter and more direct to prevent the wire from stopping the fan, or getting damaged.  There has been no impact to the cube's performance by making this alteration.

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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 17/01/2014, 13:41:41 UTC



(And to restate - I can get this to work with BFGminer, I am trying to figure out mining_proxy.)

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Your Gateway is blank....Needs to be your router IP address....

Actually, you don't need a gateway address nor DNS as your connecting to a proxy on the same layer 2 network.  The problem is your cube was on 8330; when the default is 8332 - when you added "-gp 8330" this changed the proxy listening port to 8330, and thus enabled you to connect.

Here is one of mine:
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs11.postimg.org%2Fisdrel7hf%2FBE_Cube_Miner_21_png.png&t=536&c=G9ILwcCxU1FgmA
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 17/01/2014, 13:37:19 UTC
Looking at your settings and your proxy - you are having your proxy pass through the user names in your cubes rather than defining it proxy-wide, via the "-cu" and "-cp" switches.  You can do that of course, but then you have to be sure that the usernames in your cube setups will work on the pool directly.

Hope this helps!
- Tye

I don't know how to use the -cu or -cp switch.  Can you give me an example?  Thanks!


In addition to the gateway change, you'll need to change your proxy line to

Code:
mining_proxy.exe -o us2.eclipsemc.com -p 3333 -gp 8330 -q

Your Gateway is blank....Needs to be your router IP address....

Thanks, Gents!  One or both of these got me mining!  Cheers!

Wait, I'm going to take a longshot here, -cu is and -cp ?  I'll try that...

EDIT:  Well, I tried that as in: -cu username -cp password but the mining did not register on the site.  If I use my username/password in the settings panel, it works.  But I'd like the functionality of using a command line version.  If someone can give me an example in syntax.  Thanks.


Without options, the default mining_proxy port is 8332.  You configured your cubes to access 8330, so adding the string "-gp 8330" was your resolution.  You must set your worker:password,worker:password in the cube settings... it then passed it through mining_proxy as it converts the getwork protocol to stratum and then accesses your pool with those worker settings.  

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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 16/01/2014, 19:02:34 UTC
I have 1 card that is half full of x's in low clock mode (x x x x x x x x o o o o o o o o). If I switch to high clock mode and restart, it goes to all o's. But when I switch back to low and restart, the x's return.

Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it?

Also, is it normal to always get these "WARNING proxy getwork_listener._on_submit" messages? I seem to be getting a lot of work accepted (27 gh/s on slush's pool), but I'm getting lots of WARNING spam.

Sounds like the card might not be seated well, and restarting the cube (regardless of clock mode changes) must give it a bit more (or less) signal.  I'd double check that the card is seated. 

As for slush's pool, your running this through a stratum proxy right?  If you use the old get-work network, you're wasting your time since they've actually discontinued it.
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 16/01/2014, 14:38:24 UTC
After several hours of running with a Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15 (58.x CFM), I saw a performance slowdown of roughly 8%. While I had thought the airflow coming from the front of the Cube was similar to the stock fan, it was noticeably warmer air coming out.

So, I used twist ties to attach another fan to the front. The result is hideously ugly, louder, but still much quieter than the stock fan, and is definitely putting out more air flow. It still feels warm, but I'm not using thermometers to measure this stuff.

There is also zero back flow out of the back where the fan is supposed to go. With both the stock fan and my Scythe replacement by itself, I was getting some back flow.

So far, my missing performance is back.

I'd appreciate anyone's insight on all this.

Using a wind meter, I just checked the velocity of one of my cube fans... It's showing about 20fps, or 40CFM. So not the best fan's in the world to begin with.  I am not having any heating issues, but I've installed my cubes into some datacenter space where the ambient cool air is ~65degrees.  I wanted to check the air volume so that I could gauge what level of fan I need to upgrade too since I am about to flip the fans around.  I thought everyone might find my results interesting and/or helpful.

If you have  your cubes installed at your home, it's likely the ambient temperature is more like 70 or higher degrees.  This would then be just pumping warm air over hot heat sinks so doubling the air flow would almost be completely necessary since it'll dissipate less heat as the air passes over the blades.  
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Re: Cube and Blades restarting every 5 minutes.
by
Shaker242
on 15/01/2014, 21:32:08 UTC
I'm thinking it's a proxy issue - part of the programming makes it so the devices (v2 blades and cube) restart when they don't get any work. All three restart simultaneously and the problem is most assuredly not heat related.

Sorry - just noticed you said it wasn't heat related.  Okay; I too use Slush's proxy... I however, have a separate proxy for each cube because I became tired of troubleshooting issues related to using a single proxy.  You could try my setup.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352658.msg4349054#msg4349054

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Re: Cube and Blades restarting every 5 minutes.
by
Shaker242
on 15/01/2014, 21:25:21 UTC
Hello,

I have two V2 blades and a cube connected to Slush's stratum proxy. The hardware itself seems to be in good shape, all three devices achieve the desired hashrate but after about five minutes - they restart. Every time this happens they need a few moments to get back up to speed and in the process I lose tons of hashes. The blades average out at only about 7.5Gh/s (out of 10Gh/s) while the cube averages only 25Gh/s (out of 38Gh/s), I'm guessing since it takes longer to reach its target rate upon restart.

So far I've tried different pools and exchanged the power supply to see if those could be the problem, but the results were the same. Honestly any information would be greatly appreciated and I'll tip whoever can make this go away. I feel like a noob for not being able to figure this out, but I'm treading in the dark.

It's likely a heat issue, have you checked that?  If the cubes get hot, it's likely to reboot to cool off... are you running it in High or Low mode? If High, does it change running in Low?  If it's Low, is the air that's being sucked in cool or warm?  You can try putting it a cooler area of your home or other cool location.  Sucking in air isn't enough, it needs to suck in 'cool' air....

As a test, you can set one in your window (if it's cold where you are) and it's not wet outside... have it suck in the cold air and exhaust into your home.  If it doesn't shutdown, then snap... you found the problem, heat.  My $0.02.


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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
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Shaker242
on 15/01/2014, 13:37:14 UTC
if anyone has fixed the random restarting please tell me I will pay a donation I have 3 restarting cubes and I have reasembled them all with no fix please help

I have also seen reports that a failing fan (not drawing enough power, I suppose) will cause random restarts - it's worth trying if you're out of other ideas.

You know, I bet your on to something.  The Cubes might be restarting because they're over heating, it makes perfect sense.  I've actually been considering flipping my fan around so that the draw is actually from the back; the purpose for this is simply to make it easier for me to properly position the cubes within a datacenter, and not get all tangled up with the power and network cables.  Doing this, I might have to upgrade the fans... so I'm about to purchase these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608009.  The new fans will be >90CFM, which should do the trick nicely.
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 15/01/2014, 13:33:12 UTC
Examples
Cube Config Screenshot:
http://www.brokejoker.com/cubeproblem/cubeinfo-bottom.jpg



8.8.8.8 is one of Google's public DNS servers.  If you are routing to a name... just like you do when you put in "http://bitcointalk.org" in your browser, DNS will have to convert it into a valid IP address in order to find and locate that destination on the Internet.  If you use 192.168.1.1, then your router must forward DNS to something else; your router will likely have DNS servers plugged in for that purpose.  However, if you are in doubt, you can change both DNS locations to somewhere... OpenDNS, UltraDNS, Google etc and bypass your router all together.  However, you can also just manually lookup the IP address, and put all zero's in as the DNS servers.  

Since I'm using a local proxy, this is what my settings look like:
http://s7.postimg.org/5owg9v67f/BE_Cube_Miner_2.png
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 14/01/2014, 14:12:02 UTC
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I have a problem with my cube

I have taken it all apart and tightened the heatsink screws and re seated the boards

It runs off a Corsair cx750 M

somewhere in this forum is a reference to certain corsair psu's having a power saving mode that cause's issues similar to this. I believe it was an AX model but may include the CS model as well. I know for a fact the GS800 works fine.

I use the AX860i's to power two cubes each; no issues.  Someone stated it was a GS (Gaming Series) that did it; sounds now from your experiences that it could just be a bad Corsair power supply that's failing (the GS).
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 12/01/2014, 22:54:05 UTC
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I think you misunderstood my question
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solo mine other SHA-256

I'm not trying to solo mine bitcoin. I'm trying to solo mine other coins like Tigercoin or Zetacoin or something like that.

Do we know how to get a cube to solo mine something like Zetacoin without using BFG Miner?

Ah, yes... sorry.  I only deal in Bitcoin (ASIC) and Litecoin (GPU) mining.  
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 12/01/2014, 22:44:59 UTC
DNS doesn't matter if your using IP addresses, nor does the gateway if your using a local net proxy.  

You seem "in the know".

So far, I've only been able to solo mine other SHA-256 coins with a cube by using BFG Miner and the --http-port #### option.

Is it even possible to use stratum proxy for solo mining?

Also, I've tried just using the cube by itself but it won't communicate with the wallet by setting the "Pool ports" to the rpcport in the wallet .conf file. Any suggestions? (I've probably asked this question about 3-5 times on this thread and once in its own thread, but people just said "point the cube at the wallet" which obviously so far has not worked.)

Cube's need a stratum proxy since they use the "get work" protocol; my understanding is... a stratum proxy is only used for pooled mining.  They don't link to your wallet, you register your wallet address as the "send to, pay to, or something..." so that when you pool mine and get to a specific threshold, say 1.0 bitcoin, it automatically sends it to your registered wallet address.  Solo mining is a little impractical unless you invested in a Neptune (or a few of them).  I'd recommend you look for a pool that you'd like to join.  Some of the popular ones are Slush's pool; which you need a stratum proxy with... or Eligius's pool; which you can mine direct using "GBT Host: gbt.mining.eligius.st Port: 9337".

Eligius has a great graph that shows your effort via a "Hash Graph": I only used it for testing...

http://s27.postimg.org/knao4halv/0_00480130_BTC_1_Gw_Zsad2r_WSygov7wk4_DGL3u_Ta_Uf_Yi4.png

Here is an example of Slush's pool:

http://s27.postimg.org/xlp1revhv/My_account_mining_bitcoin_cz_6.png

Here's some pools you can research:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 12/01/2014, 21:13:34 UTC
Well sadly it finally happened, I've got a cube that turns on with solid green and solid red, and it will start to hash, but eventually it will just stop communicating over the network and will go to the RED led being completely off.

Any suggestions?

I have five cubes all running on the same mining stratum proxy on the same getwork port. None of the other 5 are showing this problem, and this is something that just started happening recently.

Also, I've tried running solo mining with the cubes and I currently can't get it working without using the --http-port #### option. Additionally, no matter what I try, I can't get solo mining to work with just using the cube (no mining software no proxy) or solo mining with the proxy. (Solo mining Sha-256 altcoins not bitcoin I'm not stupid.)

Found my problem, it was the power supply.

The Corsair GS 800 has this annoying attribute where it will go into "power saving" mode randomly and stop supplying power to the cube.

I bought another Corsair HX 850 yesterday and hooked it up this morning and I've had no issues so far.

The GS (Gaming Series) does that?  How annoying... I chose the AX series, also works great and I use the 860 to power two cubes.  Glad you figured it out.
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 12/01/2014, 21:11:47 UTC
I hope someone can help me out on this.http://i.imgur.com/7C44R9k.png  Huh

Also, you're going to get a lot faster hashrate if you use stratum mining proxy with the following:

mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333 -gp 8333 -q

For Primary and Secondary DNS I would recommend using OpenDNS instead.
Primary DNS: 208.67.220.220
Secondary DNS: 208.67.222.222

Also is your Gateway really 0.0.0.0?

run ipconfig in a command prompt and make sure your Default Gateway actually says 0.0.0.0.


DNS doesn't matter if your using IP addresses, nor does the gateway if your using a local net proxy.  

http://s11.postimg.org/isdrel7hf/BE_Cube_Miner_21_png.png
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 12/01/2014, 17:53:14 UTC
has anyone evaluated running multiple instances of slush's proxy but on different ports... like the --gp 8332, --gp 8333 etc?

That's what I've been doing all along... Sorry if that was unclear.  A new VM for each cube just sounds like it would eat up waaay too much RAM.


I'm after some advise on how I can get my cube to successfully mine on two separate pools, as in the primary/backup function, so if one looses connectivity or times out for any reason, it switches to the other pool.

...

Also what does diff 64, 128 and 256 mean?

Here's an example.

proxy1.bat:
Code:
mining_proxy.exe --host stratum.bitcoin.cz --port 3333 --getwork-port 8332 --stratum-port 3333
proxy2.bat:
Code:
mining_proxy.exe --host stratum.btcguild.com --port 3333 --getwork-port 8331 --stratum-port 3332
Then in your cube config page, set the ports to 8332,8331


The various difficulty settings are simply a way to control the bandwidth used by limiting the number of shares submitted.  Lower difficulty shares means a more accurate hashrate reported by the pool, vs higher difficulty shares means less bandwidth but higher variance.

I ended up building a small Ubuntu VM per Cube for a proxy; it actually doesn't use much ram or disk space so it's not too much of a big deal.  It is a pain in the ass since I'd like a single instance to cover all cubes and direct them all to slush's pool.  Anyway, with 4 cubes, I have 4 proxies and they will fail over to one of the other cubes should their primary fail.  I noticed when I was sharing one proxy, even with different ports and workers - I was getting ~25Gh/s, but once it's on a dedicated proxy it jumped over 30Gh/s.  I may have to alter things once again when I start adding more cubes.
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Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup
by
Shaker242
on 08/01/2014, 15:26:27 UTC
I've got my block errupter, set my Mining Proxy. However the Problem is the device restarts every 2 min. I geht very lo Hashrate of 200mhs or so...i trief different power supplies but no Luck.

All cards are correctly installed and show in the miner config with "  o "

You've come to the right thread... I had issues too, my saga started at post #725.  However, I'd recommend going through the thread completely to rule out as much as you can. (not sure from your message if you have yet or not)



Hi Shaker242, I read through your post but my problem is not only slow mining it simply does reboot all the time. After 2 min. reboot.Actually you do not tell how you solved the problem.

The LED stays red on some powersupply. On the other it goes off but also after 2 min restart it connects to my windows binary proxy. And also I tried to compile the slush proxy on ubuntu which connects now the same way, but no luck getting this brick to mine.

Sorry, I meant look through the whole thread not just my issues.  My final resolution turned out to be my proxy / network configuration (to the best of my knowledge) - there wasn't anything wrong with the cube.  I also didn't have any power supply issues, like the rebooting your having.