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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
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aleph
on 28/10/2013, 17:14:50 UTC
I would try upping the voltage in steps of .05 to a max of 1.25 to see if that brings the chips to life.

I see you have the clock set to low, or else it's forcing itself down. Make sure to set it high and then reset afterward, inbetween each voltage increase. When I was tuning mine, after every reset I had to wait a few seconds (10 I think) for the blade to put itself under load. I'm sure you're doing the same, but just a general reminder to use the voltage readings  while it's under load.

The only other suggestion I would make is to take away the 2 fans blowing on the faces of the blade and let the one blowing across do the work, unless they're all really low output, less than 55CFM let's say. 70+ CFM blowing air in a cross manner like that might cause too much disturbance and prevent good air cooling.

You couldn't tell my blades are under full load by touching them, they barely register a noticable warmth to the touch.

I mention this because I've noticed on the Gen1 blades, even slight warmth can kill performance. Before I changed my fan setup they were "somewhat warm" to the touch, but would sometimes be stuck around 5-8GH. New fan setup, and they're 14GH+, effective rate of around 11-12.
Yep, the problem is, with all "xxxxxxxxxxxx", the board never goes under load, so I'm not sure how I can meter in this state.

What's the process for getting a replacement board?
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 22/10/2013, 16:15:05 UTC

At that voltage I presume you're overclocking? Make sure you're checking voltage properly, with the ground probe directly on the power plug of the PCB and the other probe on the VRM output. Next, I'd check the output of all the VRM's to see what they are. Most of my overclocked blades worked best when set to 1.185. Sometimes they could go lower but not usually.

If you aren't overclocking I'd suggest 1.045-1.07.

Make sure your cooling is adequate also. I'm using one fan per blade, each fan is at least 105cfm, some are 125. The fan is oriented beneath the blade blowing up across both sides of the blade. This keeps them pretty much cold to the touch.

As to the hashing, my effective hash rate for most OC'd blades is above that. I'm presuming cooling and voltage inconsistancies are causing you issues. Also, I would suggest BFG proxy if you aren't already using it.

Thanks for the response.  I meter the board as per this video http://youtu.be/M4PP9XnNKnA?t=2m24s.  I do meter all VRMs.  I have three fans on the blade.  One on each side blowing across the PCB and a third larger fan blowing across the entire area.  Yes, over-clocked.

I used to get between 10 and 11 GH/s with these settings consistently.  This is running at my office, and this is what I found this morning.  Two hard resets haven't changed it so far.

http://107.imagebam.com/download/gG93PB0huLqVYvLWkiL8vg/28331/283306562/2013-10-22_091316.png

I haven't switched to BFG.  I'm still on proxy_miner and Slush's Pool.
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 21/10/2013, 21:42:34 UTC
I've had a v1 blade for about six or seven weeks now.  It started out with four xxxx, but I didn't feel like sending it in for replacement as I'd be losing valuable lower-difficulty mining time.

As of the last week, however, it started getting all xxx's until I did a hard reset.  I lowered the voltage down to 1.15 and it seems more stable now, but I can never get above around 7500 MH/s and 16-17% efficiency.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 09/10/2013, 21:04:01 UTC
What I did was install Bfgminer 3.2.1 onto a raspberry pi. I believe building Bfgminer on a Linux machine where the Windows version does not have the http proxy built into it yet. This is how I set mine up.

./bfgminer --http-port-8332 -o stratum.d7.lt:3333 -u usrName -p x

on my blade I set the server IP to the same IP as my raspberry pi ports to 8332 and gave it a unique name and password. Everything started working about 15 seconds after doing an update/restart with the blade.

A quick how-to on building and running BFG for PI would be awesome!
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 02/10/2013, 23:06:24 UTC
I've had 4 "xxxx" on my configuration page for a few days.  Does anyone know how troubleshoot this?  I've already confirmed good voltage at the power side of the card (older, fused version).

Does anyone have a pin-out for the actual ASIC chip?

Thanks in advance.

Try a hardware reset.  It's worked for me.

Sorry for what's probably a foolish question, just want to confirm that you're referring to the crossing the jumpers reset, not just a power-cycle?

Thanks!

EDIT:  Sadly, still no dice.  Any ideas?  Just to reiterate, I'm wondering if anyone has a pin-out of the ASIC chip so I can troubleshoot the board.

Thanks again.
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 01/10/2013, 23:57:58 UTC
I've had 4 "xxxx" on my configuration page for a few days.  Does anyone know how troubleshoot this?  I've already confirmed good voltage at the power side of the card (older, fused version).

Does anyone have a pin-out for the actual ASIC chip?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 09/09/2013, 16:49:30 UTC
I got one of the new blades, web interface starts but Chip shows all "x" and it doesn't hash at all.

I already tried 2 different power supplies. Any ideas?  Huh


Are you sending two rails of 12V power to the board?  As shown in the OP?  Do you have a meter and can confirm somewhere in the neighborhood of 11.5V - 12V at the connector?
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Re: [Guide] Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup
by
aleph
on 07/09/2013, 20:53:07 UTC
Does anyone have a link to a compiled Windows mining_proxy.exe file?  Slush's link is down.  Thanks in advance.
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Re: Blade erupter crashes on Slush but not BtcGuild
by
aleph
on 07/09/2013, 18:02:37 UTC
On a somewhat related aside, the version of mining_proxy.exe that I'm running is not the one compiled and hosted by Slush.  His is no longer available.  I'm using one compiled by another site, so that may account for some of my lack of functionality.

Suppose I need to learn to compile Python for Windows.
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Re: Blade erupter crashes on Slush but not BtcGuild
by
aleph
on 07/09/2013, 03:02:56 UTC
Wish I could help.  I haven't been able to figure out how to get mine to connect to anything BUT slush's pool.  I found the compiled binary online -- but it points to pool.itzod.ru.  When I give it the command line -o stratum.bitcoin.cz -p 3333 it works fine on Slush.  But when I try those command lines for any other site I just get dozens of repeating errors in the command prompt window.

I haven't been able to get over 10Gh/s on Slush and I do have to run at low clock.  Running at high clock gives me the same sort of issues you have.