Topic: BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools - page 10. (Read 324109 times)

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 22, 2013, 07:04:05 PM

Thank you very much ^^

I have other question, my PC are reseting each 6 or 7 hours... and my graphic card stopped mining... where i can read some log about this? So i can knows why this happen and i will try fix that.

all logs go to ram. they are lost on reboot. this is so your usb key doesn't stop working in a few days.

you can set up a syslog server and send the log there if you'd like, but they are unlikely to contain anything of value anyway.

99.9% chance that you are overclocking too much, or you have inadequate cooling, or inadequate power, or your hardware is just faulty. run at stock and see if problems go away.

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Speaking of changing the mining software, has anyone seen this happen? Update to the latest cgminer 3.0.0 and when you go to compile it want you to install libusb-1.0, (For supporting BFL FPGAs) so you do an apt-get install libusb-1.0 and it does it, then you can compile, everything is fine and cgminer runs. But then when you reboot, it comes up to a Debian login screen?? Strangest thing. I was going to mess around with it again later this evening to see if I can reproduce the steps on a different USB stick.

I've seen that happen when X takes its sweet time starting up.

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Quote from: abracadabra on April 22, 2013, 06:11:37 PM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 22, 2013, 09:38:22 AM

Another way to force the rig into no overclocking at all is to copy the "noOC" file from /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL into the /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE dir. Or you can do individual GPUs, you'll see all the files you can copy to that folder in the CONTROL dir. To remove that option, all you have to do is delete the file from that ACTIVE dir.

Also, if your rig is unstable and reboots, sometimes the management code (mother) will auto gen a file based on the specific GPU it had trouble with and put it in that ACTIVE dir, so that is a place to look if your wondering why it won't ever overclock again.

Lastly, I know you had a question about logs to look for, but I believe most of those services had been disabled as to reduce the number of writes to the USB stick for longevity. (IIRC) There might be one, but you'll have to hunt for it in the readme.

I'm not 100% sure, as I have not looked very closely at the perl code written by lodcrappo, but I'm not 100% sure that the /BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE stuff works with cgminer. I was under the impression that it only worked when you used phoenix as the miner. overclocking would be handled by atitweak as a seperate process when using phoenix. since cgminer has it's own built in overclocking/fan control stuff noOC doesn't work.

Again, I'm not 100% sure of that.

Yeah, that could very well be the case. Back in the day when I was building rigs, I always started with phoenix first, got all the cards stable for a week or so, then started tweaking, OC, changing mining software etc.

Speaking of changing the mining software, has anyone seen this happen? Update to the latest cgminer 3.0.0 and when you go to compile it want you to install libusb-1.0, (For supporting BFL FPGAs) so you do an apt-get install libusb-1.0 and it does it, then you can compile, everything is fine and cgminer runs. But then when you reboot, it comes up to a Debian login screen?? Strangest thing. I was going to mess around with it again later this evening to see if I can reproduce the steps on a different USB stick.

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Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 22, 2013, 09:38:22 AM

Another way to force the rig into no overclocking at all is to copy the "noOC" file from /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL into the /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE dir. Or you can do individual GPUs, you'll see all the files you can copy to that folder in the CONTROL dir. To remove that option, all you have to do is delete the file from that ACTIVE dir.

Also, if your rig is unstable and reboots, sometimes the management code (mother) will auto gen a file based on the specific GPU it had trouble with and put it in that ACTIVE dir, so that is a place to look if your wondering why it won't ever overclock again.

Lastly, I know you had a question about logs to look for, but I believe most of those services had been disabled as to reduce the number of writes to the USB stick for longevity. (IIRC) There might be one, but you'll have to hunt for it in the readme.

I'm not 100% sure, as I have not looked very closely at the perl code written by lodcrappo, but I'm not 100% sure that the /BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE stuff works with cgminer. I was under the impression that it only worked when you used phoenix as the miner. overclocking would be handled by atitweak as a seperate process when using phoenix. since cgminer has it's own built in overclocking/fan control stuff noOC doesn't work.

Again, I'm not 100% sure of that.

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Quote from: abracadabra on April 22, 2013, 09:00:56 AM

Quote from: Izael on April 22, 2013, 06:36:37 AM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 21, 2013, 01:48:35 PM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 21, 2013, 09:54:32 AM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 20, 2013, 12:06:50 PM

Quote from: Izael on April 22, 2013, 06:36:37 AM

Hi all, How i can redownload all #FIX? I skipped #20 and now i want download but i can't... any solution?

#20 has been removed. You don't need it. Just use #21.

Thank you very much ^^

I have other question, my PC are reseting each 6 or 7 hours... and my graphic card stopped mining... where i can read some log about this? So i can knows why this happen and i will try fix that.

what do you mean "my PC are reseting"

Well, i have the PC in other room, and I do a conection via SSH to my BAMT miner PC or I write the IP of my BAMT miner PC in the explorer... so i can view if my PC is working or not... normally i haven't any problem but sometimes (each 5 o 6 hours) i can't view or do nothing (it is stopped and it's blocked)... so i only can turn off and turn on the computer it has the BAMT and then it works again....

In my experience, if a rig is locking up, it is most likely related to overclocking. Maybe back off on your GPU settings (clock/mem) and see if you get more stability.

I did back off on my GPU Settings (HD5870 -> 850/1200/1.175, I6) and i got the same results... my rig is locked up. Sad

. Can I consult any file where is wrote what happened before my rig is locked up?

no. try using all stock settings (gpu and mem). if it's still locking up, you have hardware problems.

And then if you're still locking up, start with one card, get it stable, then add the second, get it stable, repeat.

Are you using PCI-E Extenders? If yes, I would try removing that one from the equation first.

Another way to force the rig into no overclocking at all is to copy the "noOC" file from /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL into the /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE dir. Or you can do individual GPUs, you'll see all the files you can copy to that folder in the CONTROL dir. To remove that option, all you have to do is delete the file from that ACTIVE dir.

Also, if your rig is unstable and reboots, sometimes the management code (mother) will auto gen a file based on the specific GPU it had trouble with and put it in that ACTIVE dir, so that is a place to look if your wondering why it won't ever overclock again.

Lastly, I know you had a question about logs to look for, but I believe most of those services had been disabled as to reduce the number of writes to the USB stick for longevity. (IIRC) There might be one, but you'll have to hunt for it in the readme.

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Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 21, 2013, 01:48:35 PM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 21, 2013, 09:54:32 AM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 20, 2013, 12:06:50 PM

Quote from: BitMinerN8 on April 21, 2013, 01:48:35 PM

Hi all, How i can redownload all #FIX? I skipped #20 and now i want download but i can't... any solution?

#20 has been removed. You don't need it. Just use #21.

Thank you very much ^^

I have other question, my PC are reseting each 6 or 7 hours... and my graphic card stopped mining... where i can read some log about this? So i can knows why this happen and i will try fix that.

what do you mean "my PC are reseting"

Well, i have the PC in other room, and I do a conection via SSH to my BAMT miner PC or I write the IP of my BAMT miner PC in the explorer... so i can view if my PC is working or not... normally i haven't any problem but sometimes (each 5 o 6 hours) i can't view or do nothing (it is stopped and it's blocked)... so i only can turn off and turn on the computer it has the BAMT and then it works again....

In my experience, if a rig is locking up, it is most likely related to overclocking. Maybe back off on your GPU settings (clock/mem) and see if you get more stability.

I did back off on my GPU Settings (HD5870 -> 850/1200/1.175, I6) and i got the same results... my rig is locked up. Sad

. Can I consult any file where is wrote what happened before my rig is locked up?

no. try using all stock settings (gpu and mem). if it's still locking up, you have hardware problems.

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Quote from: abracadabra on April 21, 2013, 09:54:32 AM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 20, 2013, 12:06:50 PM

Hi all, How i can redownload all #FIX? I skipped #20 and now i want download but i can't... any solution?

#20 has been removed. You don't need it. Just use #21.

Thank you very much ^^

I have other question, my PC are reseting each 6 or 7 hours... and my graphic card stopped mining... where i can read some log about this? So i can knows why this happen and i will try fix that.

what do you mean "my PC are reseting"

Well, i have the PC in other room, and I do a conection via SSH to my BAMT miner PC or I write the IP of my BAMT miner PC in the explorer... so i can view if my PC is working or not... normally i haven't any problem but sometimes (each 5 o 6 hours) i can't view or do nothing (it is stopped and it's blocked)... so i only can turn off and turn on the computer it has the BAMT and then it works again....

In my experience, if a rig is locking up, it is most likely related to overclocking. Maybe back off on your GPU settings (clock/mem) and see if you get more stability.

I did back off on my GPU Settings (HD5870 -> 850/1200/1.175, I6) and i got the same results... my rig is locked up. Sad

. Can I consult any file where is wrote what happened before my rig is locked up?

BitMinerN8

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Quote from: abracadabra on April 21, 2013, 09:54:32 AM

Quote from: abracadabra on April 20, 2013, 12:06:50 PM