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[ANN] WoofCoin / New Coin [WOFC] GPU Mining/PoW
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alxgomz
on 05/03/2023, 22:18:08 UTC


WOOF COIN

Since the beginning of the pandemic, pet surrendering rates have increased dramatically around the world. Waitlists for surrendering household pets have increased to a remarkable eight months as animal shelters and welfare organisations have seen an increase of 34% for animals needing help.

Typically, animal shelters are under resourced and under financed; relying heavily on donations and the volunteer efforts to assist animals.

This is where Woof Coin steps in. As avid lovers of dogs, we wanted to make a difference. Using the power of Proof of Work mining, we’ve created a coin where miners are contributing to the donation of money to animal welfare shelters. These shelters initially include the ASPCA who already have a cryptocurrency donation mechanism but with intention to expand to the RSPCA and other organizations suggested by the community. 

Our aim is to put animals first and we intend on developing ongoing relationships with pet shelters to help adoption.

Coins Specifications
21 billion supply
Block 2,100,000 halving (4 years estimated)
Algorithm: KawPOW
Proof of Work

Download Links:
https://github.com/WoofCoinMain/WoofCoin/releases/download/WoofCoin/WoofCoin.zip

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Please reach out if you have any questions  Smiley
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performance diffrence between cards
by
alxgomz
on 17/03/2018, 11:17:39 UTC
Hi everyone I have a rig with 6 RX480 8GB
I recently moded the bios using Polaris BIOS editor and atiflash (btw, thanks to the folks who helped me).

Now my 480 are mining  28-29 MH/s (i barely have 1 MH/s more) except one which is reporting a 24-25 MH/s
This one has a diferrent bios reported by atiflash:

miner@rig0x1:~$ sudo atiflash -i

adapter bn dn dID       asic           flash      romsize test    bios p/n
======= == == ==== =============== ============== ======= ==== ================
   0    01 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P40/c         80000 pass 113-2E3470U.O5Y
   1    02 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P40/c         80000 pass 113-2E3470U.O5Y
   2    03 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P20/c         40000 pass 113-2E3470U.O5Y
   3    04 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P40/c         80000 pass 113-2E3472U.O53
   4    05 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P40/c         80000 pass 113-2E3470U.O5Y
   5    06 00 67DF Ellesmere       M25P20/c         40000 pass 113-1E353FU.O50

This GPU als o is the only one to have mixed memory types (SAMSUNG +  MICRON) while the other ones have SAMSUNG only.
Any idea why that happens and wether I can you any other BIOS to reach to the same kind of level?
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Re: how to mod a bios
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alxgomz
on 01/03/2018, 21:57:41 UTC
Yeah thanks, but I already saw this post and it starts with:

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There are 2 ways the easy one and the proper one.
I will show you the easy way....
Undervolting will only work with Windows.
If you need undervolt bios for Linux you need to do the harder way

So I didn't read further as I'm using linux and don't have windows box
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how to mod a bios
by
alxgomz
on 01/03/2018, 21:17:54 UTC
Hi everryone,

I just got my first rig up and running recently. Decent performances I think but not what I would call first class.
I'm mining using 6 RX480 8G nitro+ at roughly 162MH/s on an ubuntu 16.04 system. Beyond the slightly disapointing hashrate I am a bit worried about the power consumption.
I'm nearly at 1200W at the wall when mining ETH (far less when mining monero). So I started searching for optimisations but it seems most things are for windows all that's left to linux users are BIOS mod.
So I got atiflash working together with the polaris BIOS editor on linux. I managed to get all (I think so) the informations GOUZ would give a windows user... but then I'm not sure how to fiddle with that....
Do you guys have advices or useful links to share?

What are the important bits I should pay attention?

If I flash my BIOS and it doesn't work, can I just restore the original BIOS or is there a real risk to brick my cards?

If my cards are all same brand and model do I still have to mod the BIOS one by one?

Thanks for your insights!
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Re: rescue Asrock H81 BTC
by
alxgomz
on 28/02/2018, 20:13:22 UTC
You guys are awesome!
fanatic26, you spoted the right thing on the very first post. Thank you so much!
I changed the RAM module for a another one and I could plug all the GPU at once,, while with the previous one it was a matter of adding them one by one and crossing the fingers at every reboot.
It's now running mining ETH on 5 GPUs for more than one hour quietly.
I still have some questions and strange behaviours but I'll open a new thread to tackle them.

Thank you again.

@Fgomes87: ASRock released yesterday an 1.30Beta version of the BIOS. I shall give it a try
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Re: rescue Asrock H81 BTC
by
alxgomz
on 27/02/2018, 08:51:25 UTC
Thanks for all thoose advice. I will order new RAM and let you know.
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Re: atiflash linux
by
alxgomz
on 26/02/2018, 22:57:44 UTC
@derdigge1982, Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, because this new motherboard I thought would save me appeared to be not that good (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3027617.0) I had to switch back to using that motherboard that gave me some troubles. This machine happens to be not only a 6 GPU rig but is also my VM server I use for work. One of wich VM is my actual TFTP server! So there's no way I can boot my host system on a TFTP servers that is hosted on this very same host Smiley... D'oh!

Having said that, If I can't find any other solution I'll check if my router can do that.

@konqueror, yes I tried as root and that doesn't help (but I admit I quickly edited the pasted command line :p)

@theodrim, what I understand starting atiflash with strace is that it scans the whole /sys/bus/pci/devices/ entries looking for the "config" pseudo file. whenever one is found it reads few bytes from the file using pread64().
When done, it gets the status of a file and mmap some memory and then print the "no adapter found" message:

Code:
open("/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:80:03.0/config", O_RDONLY) = 3
pread64(3, "\4\6", 2, 10)               = 2
close(3)                                = 0
...
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f1c86c52000
write(1, "Adapter not found\n", 18)     = 18
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rescue Asrock H81 BTC
by
alxgomz
on 26/02/2018, 22:15:42 UTC
I recently bought a used rig. All partds were put apart but I was confident enough I could put it together so went for it!
In the end it's been a pain! Apparently all because of the motherboard.
This is an ASRock H81 BTC Pro with 6 PCIe slots where I plug 6 SAPPHIRE RX480 Nitro+ 8GB. Power supply delivers up to 1200W.
First of all I tried to boot the PC with only the CPU 5celeron @2.8GHz), RAM (4G DDR3) & motherboard and a VGA display plugged in. Things started pretty badly as I could see the CPU fan spinning for a few seconds, then stoping, then spinning again for a few sec, then stopping, etc...
I had to reset the BIOS in order to finally get the system booting properly and install my OS.
Installation went fine and I also installed the AMD blockchain drivers 17.50 for Linux.
Everything became really dodgy when I started to plug more than one GPU to the system. After pluging the 2nd GPU A message appeared on screen prior to POST asking me to plug to the motherboard 2 4pin molex connectors (this card has 2 slots to plug such connectors). The manual stated that it was only required when the system had 3 GPU but for me the message appears starting at 2 GPUs....
So I plugged those connectors but the message remained (Itried several connectors) and I finally had to ignore it to keep going.
I then added the GPU one by one but usually after adding the 3rd ones the system refused to boot and I had the same behaviour as the first time I boot the mobo... cpu fans (and GPUS) spinning and stopping. Like the system is booting in loop.
I once managed to have the system to boot with the 6 GPUs connected and detected by the OS. I started mining (pretty good hashrate I think, 800H/s per GPU no monero) and after 3 minutes or so the system froze and I couldn't reboot until reset the BIOS again.
In the end I had to use another motherboard I had (supermicro server X9DR3-F), which is really not optimized for mining but which is doing the job reliably (cosumming a total of 915W mining with the 6 GPU)

I wanted to know if anyone ever had similar issues and maybe knows a magical trick to make that H81 BTC happy again, or is it just a lost cause and I should trash it?

Regards
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Re: atiflash linux
by
alxgomz
on 22/02/2018, 13:46:26 UTC
I found another motherboard (HT81 BTC) and it's working OK on this one... wierd. I'm curious about what's wrong with my older mobo...

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Re: atiflash linux
by
alxgomz
on 20/02/2018, 13:15:00 UTC
I've been toying with some BIOS options like default vga source, PCIe slots oprom... but to no avail.
Any idea what could cause atiflash not to see my GPUs ?

P.S: GPUs are working fine btw, it's just that I can't think about flashing the BIOS
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atiflash linux
by
alxgomz
on 19/02/2018, 08:58:49 UTC
Hi everyone,

I have 2 RX570 & RX470 card I'd like to flash but I only have linux systems.
So I've been looking for a tool which can run on linux to flash amd cards. I've found there is an atiflash binary available in some place on the web.
After hesitating a bit downloaded it and tried to run it with the command bellow:

Code:
root@myrig1$ ./atiflash -i
Adapter not found

As shown above the command returns  no cards are found and that happens even if i try to set a different card id with (try 0 to 9):

Code:
root@myrig1$ ./atiflash -i 1
Adapter not found

I have seen this thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1809527.0 which reports atiflash not working on all motherboard... which i find surprising but I'm no expert really. I'm actually if anynewer version of the tool is available somewhere I would have missed it or if anybody knows wether a bios option needs to be set/unset...

Any help appreciated