Technically, the 2nd procedure you mentioned is correct.  Applying it w/ plastic or razor has the potential to create micro air bubbles in the paste and hinder its ability to transfer heat away from the chip.

I would test a small amount on one chip, and see what the coverage is like.

Once you have roughly the ideal amount, simply repeat the process down the line...

A little dab will usually suffice...

I noticed the intake fan on one of my units does not work.  I wonder if I should open the unit up and ensure the cable is properly attached...

Does that void warranty? 

figured it out...

Apparently you have to put in a password AND you must fill in all 3 pool's, otherwise no data appears in miner status...

Anyone know a couple of good pools I should use for backup?

Sorry, pasted twice by accident...

I tried removing the stratum+tcp://, no change... no beeps either...

Also, when I try diagnostics, tracert and ping both fail.  reports Network unreachable...


My WAN shows activity, my LAN shows no activity and is set to DHCP...  Should I be changing this to a static IP address as well as the WAN address?  (two different IP's???)

I just received my miners and am very excited.

I was able to connect them to my network and I am able to access the web interface.

I only changed the WAN settings to:

IP Address:  192.168.0.250
subnet:       255.255.255.0
gateway:    192.168.0.1
broadcast:  192.168.0.255

(I did not modify my LAN settings from DHCP)

I added eligius to my #1 pool and removed the others...

Pool 1:  stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334   stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334
Worker:  Wallet ID
Password: N/A


Click Apply & Save...

Now when I view the Miner Status, everything says "This section contains no values yet"... and is empty.

Any idea why my pool is not being displayed here?  Previously, it had Antminer's pool there and it looked fine...