Quote from: GenTarkin on October 15, 2017, 08:03:02 AM

Quote from: pacnw on October 15, 2017, 12:45:46 AM

I'm confused what state I'm at in the process. My Titan has been running flawlessly since 2014 getting app 350 Mh/s with the stock settings of 325 MHz and -.0366 V but has always run hot. I never saw any real benefit to running the GenTarkin firmware but after recently adding an L3+ to my home mining, I thought I try the GenTarkin firmware Energy Saver feature in an attempt to get some heat out of my environment. I started the Energy Saver and it immediately made some changes including turning off dies with temps over the 90 degree threshold (e.g.: Dies currently throttled due to DCDC over temp threshold) and reducing a few to 300 MHz

Based on a reading of the documentation, I was expecting nothing to happen immediately since it says:

When energy saver is turned on. Stage 1 of 3 begins: It will restart bfgminer, have an initial 1.5hr cooldown then the first voltage adjustments will be made. All enabled die voltages will be lowered a single notch.

I didn't experience a 1.5 hr cooldown before adjustments were made but experienced immediate adjustments.

Also, the Energy Saver immediately went into an "IDLE" state which I interpret as nothing happening based on Status IDLE when no tuning is in progress from the documentation

Is something taking place? If not, how do I leave the IDLE state and restart the Energy Saver process?

Thanks

Sorry for the confusion, The documentation on "energy saver" states this as well:
"Is there anything I should do prior to enabling Energy Saver?
To get the quickest and most reliable results: Please turn off dies which are very unstable or problematic. Please set dies listed in auto-byass state to OFF and clear the bypass list. Please ensure that NO dies are in a throttled state."

So, those dies which were throttled at the onset of your "ENABLE ENERGY SAVER" .... probably caused some weird behaviour w/ the dies that were throttled.

I would recommend ... doing as the documentation says. If ur running 90C on the DCDC temps .... thats quite a risk, you can adjust the maximum DCDC threshold up higher if you want to start energy saver reliably ... but I dont recommend it at your temps at all.

To get out of the idle state, I manually set the Mhz rate on all dies to 300 MHz and Applied changes. After applying the changes the Energy Saver start button became active and I started/restarted the Energy Saver. Stage 1 was chugging along last night and Stage 2 was running when I checked this morning. It appears all is good. Thanks for the replies

pacnw

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