Topic: Baikal miner Problems,Tips and Help - page 6. (Read 26293 times)

Thanks. I will try to replace the orange Pi. Can you share a link to a direct replacement on ebay or amazon? I see there are multiple configurations when it comes to connecting the unit to the miner. Mine has 2 rows of 13 pins, but I can seem to find a Pi Zero that looks like that anywhere.

the current Pi I have have the following sticker on the back: Pi Zero, 256M, 201703070602. I am not sure what that means, but searching for it doesn't bring to the right place.

Or you could mail it over to me and I'll take a look at it. I'd like to see what a working one of these looks like if I can fix it.

Sure. Take it off and see if it boots. I think there is only one Orange Pi, so go for it.

What's the worst that could happen?

C

Lightfoot,

Thanks for your reply. Is there any way I can check if the orange PI is working? Is it's not, what model of orange PI should I be looking for as a replacement?

Is the Pi even working? Maybe get a new Orange Pi, the one I have here blew the Pi which also took out the Atmel CPU chip on the board. Blah.

Hi everyone,

I have purchased a brand new Baikal Cube at the end of April 2017 and as of August 2017 the Cube stopped working. I am hoping for your help in resolving this issue.

One day the Cube just stopped working and blue and green lights are continuously blinking. Also I am not able to see the Cube on my router's client list when its turned on, so I have not access to the Cube interface. Something else I noticed is that the lights on the ethernet port on the miner are not blinking at all. The Cube has always operated in room temperature (not hot).  I tried the following:

1. Restarting the Cube
2. Restarting the Cube and connecting it to PC via USB cord and jumper switched to H (as per user guide instructions)
3. I also tried removing the SD card and flashing a new image from Baikal website (PiZero_170605_V1.4) onto the SD card.

Prior to the issues occurring, I have not had any changes to equipment (router, internet, etc.).

I tried a various options discussed in this topic, but none seem to resolve my issue. Any further advice or help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Not sure, but I have noticed that if the Pi goes out it can take out the CPU on the miner. Is there a place where I can download the miner firmware for a reflash; I'm going to try replacing the CPU.

C

Hello. Baikal miner not mining. Shows 3 in the graphical interface 450mh not 600mh. And only red flashing on one miner. Any tips on how I can fix this? Help me! https://youtu.be/k9gdTkNADCk

It was bound to happen: One of these little guys crossed my repair desk. Doesn't work, says the owner

Powered it up with a 12 volt supply (positive tip), nothing. Took off the Orange Pi, noticed the burn mark on the back, tested it by itself, dead. That explains that. Ordered a new OPi, downloaded the latest code to it, hooked it up, fired it up.

Web site comes up, put in a bitcoin address for nicehash, pools are running, no miners running. Same network I use for litecoin testing, so the net should be ok.

No lights on the unit at all which is making me wonder if the ARM chip is blown as well. Question: Should any lights come on the hashing board, is there a way to test the SPI lines to see if the miner is on the ring, and anything else I can test to see if the CPU is up or not?

If not I could reflow a new chip, but not sure if you can load the firmware on a clean chip. Likewise what's the best way to hook up to the 4 pins, adapter or cut up a USB cable?

Thanks. Interesting little thing wonder if I can fix it...

I am getting the 1536mhz error, same as you. How did you manage to bypass this error?

Product
Baikal Mini Miner

Issue
Can not connect to the router
lan not responding, no lights on the router side
ethernet light is on on the miner side, even when lan cable is not plugged in

Test done
Using the same lan cable and router, tested with another miner and laptop, works(therefore not lan cable or router issue)
change lan cable - does not work
power on / off - does not work




Did anyone face this issue before?
Any ideas how to fix this?

Hi,

Firmware version:
The first Giant we sent out at the beginning is already owns newest firmware version, later we only update software version(orange pi one), The newest version of Orange Pi image is V3.0, size is 3.6G.

Power input:
2 of power connector be plugged (each board should have one) is enough for running one. Plug all 4 in will make the powering more stable, it is we always recommend. So, both of plug 2 and 4 is no problem.

baikalminer

Hi.

Does anyone have experience with updating a Giants firmware?

I tried reading the instruction guide...but i think there might be an error in the guide...

Could anyone confirm if this is error or not?

See how it tells you to power each board of the Giant , using BOTH...power inputs?...instead of the usual ..One?

http://imgur.com/LcyZlM3


Also..once you complete the firmware update...

It then tells u to use ...ALL FOUR...of the power inputs ...to run the Giant...instead of the ususal...Two?

http://imgur.com/tPTuRqz


This must be "error"...right?

Should only use...1 power input...for the first step?

And...2 power inputs....for the last step?

Looks you may talking to the wrong person.

where you sent the money? from skype or email? For me, they answered me all my questions and at the end, they asked me to write a email with my purcahse plan, address, my special request to their email([email protected]), and then they provide quotation and payment adress, still by email.

you can post their emial for quoting you final price and payment address, community will help you. Good luck.

get yourself more baikal miner...

Can y'all turn your baikals off please.
It's fucking with my ROI.
Thanks

my mini miner is finally mining again.
odd way to start it mining again, attach a hdmi monitor and keyboard to the orange pi, and then login.
if it still wont work, i put ping command, ping google.com, then the blue led start to lit solid!
although this is a ridiculously strange, at least it works.
i have to repeat this procedure everytime it boots due to power outage.


tks,

There's now version 3.1 in that link... loaded it on one and running it now.. i don't know which version of sgminer it is.. i think version 3.0 had sgminer 5.1.1... and i just read that ver3.1 has sgminer 5.2.2

did you send them the transaction confirmations?   if you just told them you paid without the transaction confirmations, then there is no proof you paid... send them the tx id, and if that doesn't work, post those tx id on here so the community can follow.

baikalminer.com is a CROOK and a SCAM (s or no s, they are all BULLSHIT)

I have been ripped off from baikalminer.com for $4676 and want you share my HORROR story so hopefully you don’t end up getting ripped off.  STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM BAIKALMINER.COM !!!  After weeks of research on Google and Youtube, I thought the Baikal Miner would be a good investment mining Dash coins at 300 MH/s using only 75 Watt of power.  Boy was I in for the biggest SCAM and RIPOFF and RIDE of my life!!!  After one month of Baikal Miner hustling and scamming me, he stole $4676 and I am now stuck with a defective Baikal Miner Cube.  I am now still SHOCK and SO DISGUSTED of these people!  This is why they don’t accept credit card or paypal.  Just bitcoin, dash or ethereum.  I don’t think there is any recourse or any way you can get the coins back from these people!

On April 11, 2017, I pulled the trigger and sent baikalminer 0.7216068 BTC which equals to $876.02 USD.  These people are very difficult to deal with and very slow to respond on email.  Worst, they only take bitcoin and they are located halfway around the world in China.   So this made me very concern.  8 days later on April 19, the unit arrived at my home.  I emailed Baikal on what power supply to use and they won’t recommend which power supply to buy or send me an ebay or Amazon link, they just said 12V 10A.  I searched on Google, Amazon and ebay and end up buying 3 power supply from Amazon and ebay.  The first P/S came home the end plug was too big and did not fit.  Then a couple days later the two P/S I ordered on ebay arrived and this one fit.  You would think spending $876 on a little box with a fan, heatsink and circuit board they would include a P/S.  The box did not come with any manuals so I had to google to find the CUBE.pdf manual and figured everything out myself.  When first powered up and log in with the default password baikal, the miner show down.  It looks like they still have their dash wallet address on there.  I setup an account on coinmine.pl and dash.suprnova.cc and added my account and dash wallet address to the Baikal Pool page.  Doesn’t matter what I do, the miner still show down.

On April 24, 2017, I emailed [email protected].  The following day, they email back ask me to skype them.

Hi,
Thank you for your email.
Please contact us via skype in order to deal your business more effectively.
Our skype account: “baikalminer” (no more other letters or characters)
You can check the following link for your information: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/identify-official-baikal-skype-please-help-let-more-people-see-1804508
We will take care of your request as soon as we get the message from skype.
Best regards,
Baikal

On Skype, they did not offer any technical support or troubleshooting at all.  They kept on insisting I download and read the CUBE.pdf file.
http://www.baikalminer.com/cn/down/CUBE.pdf  Their support is shitty!  Then they wanted me to ship the unit back at my expense to repair it.  I wasn’t happy at all!!!  To make me happy, they offered a Quad unit at a discounted price.  The miner cube is $800 + $76 Shipping.  Total is $876.  Quad is 4 miner cube so $800 x 4 = $3200.  I already paid for the first miner cube so I just need to pay for the difference of $2326 and I have to ship the defective unit back.  I wasn’t happy paying more at a full price when I already received a defective unit.  So they offer 5% discount + free shipping + power cable at $2166 more + $876 I originally paid.

>4/25 Ok I will deduct the same so that you can pay the shipping price from your end for that cube.
>4/25 3196-870 = 2326$
>4/25 But you have to ship the product to us.
>4/25 Does it make you happy..
>4/25 Ok as this is our fault we give the 5% + free shipping and power cable = 3036- 870 = 2166

On April 27 and 30, 2017, I sent them $2150 to upgrade to a Quad Cube ($900 in ETH and $1250 in BTC).  As of this date, I have sent them
$3026.02.

On May 1, 2017, they offer me two baikal quads for $2400 instead of instead of $3400 .

>5/1 Ok after lot of considerations in your case we feel like the fault is from our end only.
And to do the compensation for that if you are interested we ship out two baikal quads in which you have already paid for one and for the second one we give you 25% off + free power cables and shipping. So you have to pay 2400$ instead of 3400$ I this this makes you a happy customer.
What do you say.?
>5/1 This is only one time offer please don't consider this discount in future just to make sure you should be happy we are offering this and please post this any where in social media.
As people will start bargaining..
This offer for you also only once from next time please don't ask us as definitely we don't give any offers anymore.
Definitely you don't need to worry this time as I personally test the products which we are going to send you.


>5/2 Hello my friend we have received your payment
But we had an issue with our financial tem.
In the morning our jr accountant accepted that you can pay 1600$ later but from afternoon we had so many discussions and our Sr accountant is not agreeing for more than 1000$ credit to a customer and blaming me for giving such credit after 25% discount.
Some how I managed by telling that customer lost a lot because of the machine problem and managed to give you 1200$ or with huge extra offer.
Because we consider the money which we get before the shipping and after shipping we always will be having 50:50.

Case1) pay 1000$ and pay nothing except shipping the old product.
So here for second quad you will be getting 3400-1600 = 1800$ total to pay(800 already paid and balance 1000$). Close to 47% off on total for the second machine.

Case 2) pay 400$ now and remaining 1200$ after shipping.

This is just to make sure that it is fine at least we don't make profit but we should not lose money by selling.
We sell our products through out the world and you are an individual customer for us.
I hope you understand our Sr accountant concern.
Please think for a while and let me know which case suits well so that I will proceed and also please be hurry so that tomorrow morning hours I would like to ship them. Thanks.

On May 2, 5 and 6, 2017, I sent them a total of $1650 in BT and ETH.  After sending them the last payment, they said to me on skype “Hi my friend please contact us via email for the confirmation. thanks.” And this is when the HORROR begins.  I email them at [email protected] and they just pay dumb and said they never received my $$$ BTC and ETH. 

05/02/17 Paid $800 BTC
05/05/17 Paid $550 ETH
05/06/17 FINAL payment $300 BTC

baikalminer.com and all other baikalminer web site and all of the baikalminer on skype are the SAME people.  They will hustle you in sending bitcoin, dash coins or Ethereum coins.  They will steal your coins and you cannot do anything about it like me!  I am very unlucky and very stupid to trust them!  DON’T buy anything from Baikal Miner or any other web site or anyone on Skype.  They are all the same people.  I will attached screen capture of my skype conversion with Baikal Mining and emails so you can read for yourself and share with families, friends, co-worker and the mining community.  I FEEL SO SICK INSIDE.  These people have stole $4676 of my hard earn money.  VERY VERY SAD!  Don’t know what else to do.

Danny