Avalon ASIC users thread - page 125.

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 08:40:12 PM

Quote from: elasticband on July 09, 2013, 08:13:07 PM

i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all

Isn't rebooting during a flash pretty much the worst possible idea? Tongue

I've done this a million times on server hardware. Never with an ASIC. The downtime in case of an issue and probable lack of being able to return it is what scares me.

All you are flashing is the router really =) nothing else. It should be fine, I doubt it has a very high failure rate... I havent heard of any known flashing failures on avalon, under normal conditions.
But yeah, its just like flashing a mobo, same chances of failing I suppose... which over my PC career seems to be 1% of flashes I do, something breaks =P

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Quote from: elasticband on July 09, 2013, 08:13:07 PM

i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all

Isn't rebooting during a flash pretty much the worst possible idea? Tongue

I've done this a million times on server hardware. Never with an ASIC. The downtime in case of an issue and probable lack of being able to return it is what scares me.

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i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 07:47:35 PM

Sounds good to me, performance looks awesome already but some more reliability would be even more important.

I will admit flashing it sounds a little scary. If I brick it it's all over.

It sounds scary, but I've done it twice on three different ones and it was fine.

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 09, 2013, 07:40:51 PM

Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 07:28:22 PM

Quote from: kano on July 09, 2013, 07:23:15 PM

craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..

FW update is a must to get the thing running better then it is now =)
Improves reliability significantly.

Sounds good to me, performance looks awesome already but some more reliability would be even more important.

I will admit flashing it sounds a little scary. If I brick it it's all over.

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 07:28:22 PM

Quote from: kano on July 09, 2013, 07:23:15 PM

craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..

FW update is a must to get the thing running better then it is now =)
Improves reliability significantly.

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Quote from: kano on July 09, 2013, 07:23:15 PM

craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 09, 2013, 07:18:22 PM

Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 07:06:52 PM

how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45

I am so confused dude, what exactly is it that you are trying to do?
Also, first update the avy firmware to conmans latest cgminer build:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/avalon/20130703/

It's running on wireless again. I'm going to monitor it for now. Will consider FW update later this week.

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craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 07:06:52 PM

how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45

I am so confused dude, what exactly is it that you are trying to do?
Also, first update the avy firmware to conmans latest cgminer build:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/avalon/20130703/

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how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45

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tried to add secondary lan connection for wired connection and now I can't connect to the miner at all.... what a headache this is causing

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pure stales coming across now

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Looks like cgminer is started, but no accepts or anything....

Ahhh I just want this contraption to work!

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And I'm getting socket connect failed now. No cgminer start.

From what I read I may have some ports being blocked? Hopefully ISP didn't shut me down!

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 06:13:20 PM

There's a ton of this in the logs

Jul 9 21:45:01 OpenWrt cron.info crond[885]: crond: USER root pid 13416 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor

Literally 100 of these messages in a row

That is normaal, it's a script run every 2 minutes (check with crontab -l from the root promt) that checks is your cgminer process is active, if not it restarts it

Code:

root@avalon00:~# crontab -l
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
root@avalon00:~#

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There's a ton of this in the logs

Jul 9 21:45:01 OpenWrt cron.info crond[885]: crond: USER root pid 13416 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor

Literally 100 of these messages in a row

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It seems to be stumbling here the past hour. Another 2 mins of no shares submitted... Connection appears fine. I am using wireless with a signal strength of 57% but I don't see any drops.

When it stops submitting shares the NMW value climbs quickly

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Quote from: Elokane on July 09, 2013, 05:56:30 PM

Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 05:50:14 PM

I know this was probably answered 50 times already in this thread and I tried looking, but it's a little bit of a TL;DR situation.

I have accepted 10124 and HW 202

From what I read the hardware errors are nothing to worry about, can anyone clarify this?

Also, I noticed NMW is now going up, there was a point where it didn't submit a share in about 2 minutes. My other miners are fine, only the avalon did this.

One more thing, since I am a noob to these, is it normal for the fans to randomly spin down a bit for a second or two and then go back to normal speed?

Nothing to worry about. You want to maximize speed so that the last step you take is the one before the step where you get more errors than accepted shares for.

Fans adjust based on temperature and so that's normal behaviour.

Thanks for the feedback, Temps are 23, 42, and 46. Highest fan speeds are 2600RPM. When the fans slow down it is literally for two second. They also go full blast for about two second periods. Is this strange behavior?

Hash rate jumps around a lot too, from what I've seen it is sometimes down at 35GH/s then up to 75GH/s.

20130419 is the firmware version and I am running "Extreme" at 300MHz

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Quote from: craslovell on July 09, 2013, 05:50:14 PM

I know this was probably answered 50 times already in this thread and I tried looking, but it's a little bit of a TL;DR situation.

I have accepted 10124 and HW 202

From what I read the hardware errors are nothing to worry about, can anyone clarify this?

Also, I noticed NMW is now going up, there was a point where it didn't submit a share in about 2 minutes. My other miners are fine, only the avalon did this.

One more thing, since I am a noob to these, is it normal for the fans to randomly spin down a bit for a second or two and then go back to normal speed?

Nothing to worry about. You want to maximize speed so that the last step you take is the one before the step where you get more errors than accepted shares for.

Fans adjust based on temperature and so that's normal behaviour.

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