Bitmain AntMiner U1 Tips & Tricks - page 18.

doctormandrake

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Quote from: chromosoma on January 21, 2014, 08:14:16 PM

That is strange.
I juts cant run all 4 Antmners at 2 GHS.

3 of them are supplied with power through my 600W PSU (PCI USB 3.0 extension card).
the other one grabs its energy through usb 3.0 Hub.
But still one random miner has about 10% HW and runs at 1.8 GHS, while others have 0% HW at 2GHS.

Every time I start BFGMINER it is always a new miner.

Any solutions?=)

BTW i am mining solo as lottery ticket:)

Code:

bfgminer.exe -o http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -O user:password -S erupter:all -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981 --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.5=90      << set as a .bat or .cmd

once everything is up and stable, pull each ant out, itll say "off" wait 30 seconds, put it back in. do this til you find the one that is running slow, mark it somehow. the miner reassigns the order based on which responds first on startup, not which port it is in on your end, so it is likely that one of the miners just performs slower than the rest. slowly unplugging then plugging them in fixed this same issue for one of my ant miners, now all get 1.99-2.02 gh sharrate and avg. It sounds like the one on the 3.0 extension is underpowered for 2gh and the hw errors back that up.

chromosoma

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That is strange.
I juts cant run all 4 Antmners at 2 GHS.

3 of them are supplied with power through my 600W PSU (PCI USB 3.0 extension card).
the other one grabs its energy through usb 3.0 Hub.
But still one random miner has about 10% HW and runs at 1.8 GHS, while others have 0% HW at 2GHS.

Every time I start BFGMINER it is always a new miner.

Any solutions?=)

BTW i am mining solo as lottery ticket:)

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Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 07:51:21 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:38:15 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 07:34:05 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:23:30 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 05:44:50 PM

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Try using bfgminer 3.10.0. Install that silicon labs driver first though. Also make sure you uninstall all the zadig bullshit. It should run with the following batch file just fine:

Code:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2 -p x --no-opencl-binaries -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
pause

An explanation for the above code, as I hate it when someone posts something, but doesn't explain why they did something some way:

'bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334' starts bfgminer and connects it to the eligius mining pool.
'-u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2' is the username, with eligius, your payout address is your username.
'-p x' is the password. On eligius anything works for a password.
'--no-opencl-binaries' keeps it from trying to mine with my GPU.
'-S antminer:all' tells bfgminer to scan for the antminers upon startup, otherwise you would have to hit "m""+""all" to add them.
'--set-device antminer:clock=x0981' sets the clockspeed of the hashing chip, using some kind of internal lookup table. x0981 sets it to 2GHs, the clockspeed of which is derived by dividing your hashrate by the number of cores on the chip (unknown.)

Many thanks for the reply Grin

just trying it now .... well my antminer is running at spped, but my BE's dont apear to be Huh

i must have missed something

Are your block eruptors showing up at all, or are they just hashing at the wrong speed?

yeah for some reason none of them worked .... then i managed to get 1 working by adding -S erupter:all to the bat file, so i then added --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.5=90 now all 3 BE's and the antminer are working Grin

... but my ant is only making 0.99/1.06/1.87Gh/s Huh

... but its working Cheesy

You may want to try two instances. Start the antminer one first, then disable the block eruptors, then start the block eruptor instance, and make sure it's not seeing the antminer.

EDIT: The reason neither of them are working properly together is because of the icarus timings. Set it properly for a block eruptor, and it pushes work at the proper intervals for the eruptors, but it starves the antminers. If you have it pushing work at the rate the antminers need, then it overloads the block eruptors.

EDIT EDIT: One last thing to try is using "-S all" instead of "-S antminer:all"

Sp00n1980

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Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:38:15 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 07:34:05 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:23:30 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 05:44:50 PM

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Try using bfgminer 3.10.0. Install that silicon labs driver first though. Also make sure you uninstall all the zadig bullshit. It should run with the following batch file just fine:

Code:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2 -p x --no-opencl-binaries -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
pause

An explanation for the above code, as I hate it when someone posts something, but doesn't explain why they did something some way:

'bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334' starts bfgminer and connects it to the eligius mining pool.
'-u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2' is the username, with eligius, your payout address is your username.
'-p x' is the password. On eligius anything works for a password.
'--no-opencl-binaries' keeps it from trying to mine with my GPU.
'-S antminer:all' tells bfgminer to scan for the antminers upon startup, otherwise you would have to hit "m""+""all" to add them.
'--set-device antminer:clock=x0981' sets the clockspeed of the hashing chip, using some kind of internal lookup table. x0981 sets it to 2GHs, the clockspeed of which is derived by dividing your hashrate by the number of cores on the chip (unknown.)

Many thanks for the reply Grin

just trying it now .... well my antminer is running at spped, but my BE's dont apear to be Huh

i must have missed something

Are your block eruptors showing up at all, or are they just hashing at the wrong speed?

yeah for some reason none of them worked .... then i managed to get 1 working by adding -S erupter:all to the bat file, so i then added --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.5=90 now all 3 BE's and the antminer are working Grin

... but my ant is only making 0.99/1.06/1.87Gh/s Huh

... but its working Cheesy

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Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 07:34:05 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:23:30 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 05:44:50 PM

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Try using bfgminer 3.10.0. Install that silicon labs driver first though. Also make sure you uninstall all the zadig bullshit. It should run with the following batch file just fine:

Code:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2 -p x --no-opencl-binaries -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
pause

An explanation for the above code, as I hate it when someone posts something, but doesn't explain why they did something some way:

'bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334' starts bfgminer and connects it to the eligius mining pool.
'-u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2' is the username, with eligius, your payout address is your username.
'-p x' is the password. On eligius anything works for a password.
'--no-opencl-binaries' keeps it from trying to mine with my GPU.
'-S antminer:all' tells bfgminer to scan for the antminers upon startup, otherwise you would have to hit "m""+""all" to add them.
'--set-device antminer:clock=x0981' sets the clockspeed of the hashing chip, using some kind of internal lookup table. x0981 sets it to 2GHs, the clockspeed of which is derived by dividing your hashrate by the number of cores on the chip (unknown.)

Many thanks for the reply Grin

just trying it now .... well my antminer is running at spped, but my BE's dont apear to be Huh

i must have missed something

Are your block eruptors showing up at all, or are they just hashing at the wrong speed?

Sp00n1980

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Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 07:23:30 PM

Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 05:44:50 PM

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Try using bfgminer 3.10.0. Install that silicon labs driver first though. Also make sure you uninstall all the zadig bullshit. It should run with the following batch file just fine:

Code:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2 -p x --no-opencl-binaries -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
pause

An explanation for the above code, as I hate it when someone posts something, but doesn't explain why they did something some way:

'bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334' starts bfgminer and connects it to the eligius mining pool.
'-u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2' is the username, with eligius, your payout address is your username.
'-p x' is the password. On eligius anything works for a password.
'--no-opencl-binaries' keeps it from trying to mine with my GPU.
'-S antminer:all' tells bfgminer to scan for the antminers upon startup, otherwise you would have to hit "m""+""all" to add them.
'--set-device antminer:clock=x0981' sets the clockspeed of the hashing chip, using some kind of internal lookup table. x0981 sets it to 2GHs, the clockspeed of which is derived by dividing your hashrate by the number of cores on the chip (unknown.)

Many thanks for the reply Grin

just trying it now .... well my antminer is running at spped, but my BE's dont apear to be Huh

i must have missed something

kfactor

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Quote from: lajz99 on January 21, 2014, 06:43:00 PM

Is anyone up and running on minepeon with the newest update?? Need deets!

I've been running minepeon with bfgminer-npw-antminer for 2 weeks without issue, so haven't installed 10.x or even followed the release - anything new (read: exciting) in it besides ant support?

Walking Glitch

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Quote from: Sp00n1980 on January 21, 2014, 05:44:50 PM

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Try using bfgminer 3.10.0. Install that silicon labs driver first though. Also make sure you uninstall all the zadig bullshit. It should run with the following batch file just fine:

Code:

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2 -p x --no-opencl-binaries -S antminer:all --set-device antminer:clock=x0981
pause

An explanation for the above code, as I hate it when someone posts something, but doesn't explain why they did something some way:

'bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334' starts bfgminer and connects it to the eligius mining pool.
'-u 19gu3jok7czATPb5TR8EMMuQu8qrQ5e34B_2' is the username, with eligius, your payout address is your username.
'-p x' is the password. On eligius anything works for a password.
'--no-opencl-binaries' keeps it from trying to mine with my GPU.
'-S antminer:all' tells bfgminer to scan for the antminers upon startup, otherwise you would have to hit "m""+""all" to add them.
'--set-device antminer:clock=x0981' sets the clockspeed of the hashing chip, using some kind of internal lookup table. x0981 sets it to 2GHs, the clockspeed of which is derived by dividing your hashrate by the number of cores on the chip (unknown.)

lajz99

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Is anyone up and running on minepeon with the newest update?? Need deets!

Sp00n1980

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Hi guys, long time reader first time poster Cool

i am having issues with running 1 antminer with my 3 BE's, it seems i can either run my antminer (@2gh/s) or if i run all 4 i get 1.4Gh/s Huh

i admit i am really new to this and copied fractalbc's config file(from page 13), but i still cannot get it to work right and i am at a loss Huh

i am using cgminer, and win7

i am really struggling, any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance Cool

Walking Glitch

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They're now mining using bfgminer 3.10.0 stock.

EDIT: Install the drivers here beforehand: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx
Don't have any of them plugged in when you install it.

Jay_Pal

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Quote from: RicRock on January 20, 2014, 12:03:28 PM

echo -n "{\"command\":\"switchpool\",\"parameter\":\"2\"}" |nc localhost 4089

FINALLY!!!
Never figured out how to use the api, even after reading the documentation (which made me more confused... :p)
Thanks!!

doctormandrake

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Quote from: RicRock on January 20, 2014, 12:03:28 PM

Quote from: doctormandrake on January 20, 2014, 12:30:57 AM

how do you use the api to switch pools?

echo -n "{\"command\":\"switchpool\",\"parameter\":\"2\"}" |nc localhost 4089

ty much

doctormandrake

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Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 21, 2014, 12:26:08 AM

Quote from: doctormandrake on January 19, 2014, 10:27:37 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 19, 2014, 09:41:28 PM

Quote from: doctormandrake on January 19, 2014, 08:01:32 PM

I do not like bfgminer as much as cgminer. for one thing if you have alot of pools in your .conf it crashes trying to go to the pool options in the client, where cgminer runs smooth. I tried switching to bfgminer for the superior ant experience described but found it very frustrating. I will just run my be's and ants on seperate comps until I sell off all be's or until cgminer makes a new version with ant and be support. I was using bfgminer 3.10.0 i 3.9.0 more stable with alot of pools? by chance if anyone knows..

I've never found bfgminer to be unstable in comparison to cgminer. Cgminer is one problem after another for me. I don't know why, as it used to be the goto miner.

have you tried it with more than a couple of pools? cgminer has had no problems with as many pools as I want (if a pool goes down, or I want to switch coins, I do not want to shutdown the miner to switch) butbfgminer doesnt play nice with alot of pools, so far anyway. I am in the process of editing 3 .conf files with 6/6/5 pools each for bfgminer, so as to just swap them in and out when I need to, as 6 pools loaded is fine, I can switch easily between pools or management strategies that way. but it would be nice if it would just play nice (it will load and hash with the 17 pools in the conf, it crashes if I type "p" to go change them however.

I have had the exact opposite experience as yourself. from day one cgminer has always worked and pretty well for me with any mining, but bfgminer is always one more little glitch, edit, headache lol

The .conf files might be your problem, as I launch mine using batch files to set all the parameters. I have never had more than about 5 pools in bfgminer at once though, between the launchtime pools, and ones I added manually while bfgminer was running.

I just edited 3 confs 6/6/5 and it works fine, I switch them out if necessary (easier to keep organized for me than a bunch of .bat or cmd) I am loving the low error rate on bfgminer, but still looking forward to a vs of cgminer with better support.

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Quote from: chromosoma on January 20, 2014, 02:58:33 PM

If someone manages to overclock Antmineru1 to stable 4GHS, please let us know:)

I am going to watercool mine and hardware mod them. I will definitely try and hit 4GHs. I won't settle for less than 3.6GHs though.

Walking Glitch

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Quote from: doctormandrake on January 19, 2014, 10:27:37 PM

Quote from: Walking Glitch on January 19, 2014, 09:41:28 PM

Quote from: doctormandrake on January 19, 2014, 08:01:32 PM

I do not like bfgminer as much as cgminer. for one thing if you have alot of pools in your .conf it crashes trying to go to the pool options in the client, where cgminer runs smooth. I tried switching to bfgminer for the superior ant experience described but found it very frustrating. I will just run my be's and ants on seperate comps until I sell off all be's or until cgminer makes a new version with ant and be support. I was using bfgminer 3.10.0 i 3.9.0 more stable with alot of pools? by chance if anyone knows..

I've never found bfgminer to be unstable in comparison to cgminer. Cgminer is one problem after another for me. I don't know why, as it used to be the goto miner.

have you tried it with more than a couple of pools? cgminer has had no problems with as many pools as I want (if a pool goes down, or I want to switch coins, I do not want to shutdown the miner to switch) butbfgminer doesnt play nice with alot of pools, so far anyway. I am in the process of editing 3 .conf files with 6/6/5 pools each for bfgminer, so as to just swap them in and out when I need to, as 6 pools loaded is fine, I can switch easily between pools or management strategies that way. but it would be nice if it would just play nice (it will load and hash with the 17 pools in the conf, it crashes if I type "p" to go change them however.

I have had the exact opposite experience as yourself. from day one cgminer has always worked and pretty well for me with any mining, but bfgminer is always one more little glitch, edit, headache lol

The .conf files might be your problem, as I launch mine using batch files to set all the parameters. I have never had more than about 5 pools in bfgminer at once though, between the launchtime pools, and ones I added manually while bfgminer was running.

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Quote from: chromosoma on January 21, 2014, 12:01:44 AM

it is not clear what voltage do you need for what frequency.
I tried it, read about my attempts few pages before;)

Yea, I know, I just I guessed it...

I tried to find more about it (and I missed page with your post, lol) Cheesy

chromosoma

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it is not clear what voltage do you need for what frequency.
I tried it, read about my attempts few pages before;)

sase007

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Do I get it right, that if I solder 10k resistor to Ant (https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/manual/AntMiner-U1%20user%20guide.pdf)
I can increase frequency to +- 350Mhz and mine more than normally?

Did someone tried it?

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Quote from: Carbonatom13 on January 20, 2014, 06:58:17 PM

Hi all,

1. Is BFGminer really that much better at reducing the HW errors i see when overclocking?

Yes, I get zero errors with BFG whereas I was getting about 2% with CGMiner, both overclocked to 2.0.

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