Topic: Blue Fury Support Thread. - page 10. (Read 89604 times)

PLEASE HELP. My bfgminer 3.6.0 is no longer detecting my bf1 redfury asic it was before but now it isn't and when I enter the M+ commands that I think I am supposed to use it isn't detecting it. My computer detects it but the mining software isn't PLEASE HELP this was very expensive.

I've had my BF1s running on minepeon with my raspi for a while now, and it's becoming increasingly frustrating that they tend to die and require pressing the reset button or unpluging/replugging and rebooting the raspi to get them hashing again.

It seems to happen when minepeon crashes and my arduino does a hard reboot on the raspi to prevent downtime.

I'm running many BE's, 2 RF's, 1 BF using separate instances of bfgminer 3.6.0 one for the BE's and one for the BF/RF.  The BF/RF are on a separate hub (but I don't think that this is essential).  On the same hub of the BF/RF there is also a Drillbit Thumb (also using the Bitfury chip, but with a different interface and driver), which runs under cgminer (and Zadig installed winusb driver).  This combination has been running well for days.  The only 'hiccup' was with detection of some of the RF/BF after restart, which requires removing sticks, re-insertion one by one and re-starting bfgminer.  Also running the device manager 'cleanup' procedure (see [url]https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/windows-many-usb-hubs-and-besfuries-clean-up-in-your-devices-manager-300638]ich requires removing sticks, re-insertion one by one and re-starting bfgminer.  Also running the device manager 'cleanup' procedure (see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/windows-many-usb-hubs-and-besfuries-clean-up-in-your-devices-manager-300638) helps.  All this runs under Win7/64.  I described the batch files used for the different instances earlier in this thread.

Cheers

The USB2 ports on your PC support miners better than USB3

Can someone please tell me how to make the Red Fury, Blue Fury and Nano Fury sticks work with BFG Miner for Windows 7 Pro 64.

I do have Block Erupters as well (the cheap ones). Never been able to get more than 1 Blue Fury to work and that went from sick to dead within a week so sent it back to seller for RMA.

I really don't like CG Miner.  So far the only way I've been able to get them to work was with the help of RW02? member via the newbie page.

Had to use ZADIG to convert them onto the winusb driver, can't seem to change them back to the BF1.ini file now though. Although with the BF1.ini file from the mediafire download + a Virtual COM port download (the one Bitminter beta said to download) + a WCA driver to stop the computer crashing every morning they still weren't being found by BFG miner.  It would see the Erupters but that was it.  Can't use the Fury sticks at all with Bitminters java miner - they just keep coming up as "timed out".

I'd like to use BFG miner as I can have the Verbose log running and Avast Free doesn't seem to mind BFG whereas it keeps trying to delete CG. CG also has problems logging in sometimes for me where it keeps failing to log in.

Running the Erupters on 2 hubs, 8 on one, 1 on the other - ordered 6A transformers to replace the 4A ones that were supplied with the hubs so when they come I'll have a hub free to see if they'll work on there.  Also need to install a 4 port pci-e x1 usb 3 card so that I can move the hubs from usb 2 to usb 3.

The pencil trick has helped a fair bit but getting a lot of faults listed - sometimes a lot more than accepted work.  Worst offender is 1 of the Red Furys that has done about 100k accepted to about 34k HW.

Im running 36 Red Furys in one of those Asicminer 49 port hubs and 9 in a Anker 10 port hub they are sucking down every watt I can throw at them.

yeah my post was a quote of I think bitter dog's photo.  it is really easy .  I am pushing 2.68 now.  with 1 stick.  these furies want for power I am going to use an adjustable meanwell psu and an anker 10 port hub I will try to get the usb 3.0 hub to be at 5.1 or 5.2 volts a port and .9 amps each.  I have moved my stick from 2.29 up to 2.68 and I just sold off the rest of my AM sticks.  I pulled them off the hub causing my  BF to jump from 2.62 to 2.68

I am thinking they really want power.

That's great, Philip, thanks so much, and a huge thank you to the other members.

Went from 2.14 to 2.67 as easy as that. If I can do it, anyone can.

 a very clear photo on page 33 post 647

It's a long thread...

please could some kind soul point me to where you were talking about how to pencil the blue furts?

or perhaps eli5

thanks in advance


edit: found it page 19+ thanks guys, wiil give it a go

No Problem.  Glad I could help. 

      Thanks..... I appreciate it.

               Knicknac

on your command line  you have to  specify each com device

example

"bfgminer.exe -o poolurl:port -u username -p password -S bf1:\\.\COM3 -S erupter:\\.\COM4 "

you can run more then one of each ,  just have to add each of them  like above.   I currently have 22 BE's and 2 redfurys running together. 

   
     Has anyone been able to get BF and BE running together, in any configuration of power, using Win7 and BFGMiner 3xx ?

                Knicknac

Haha! That made me laugh, thanks for that

Under CGMiner 3.8.3 they seem to Zombie a lot (not just on the rPi either)... ck made a change to make CGMiner 3.8.3 "less trigger happy" in regards to the issue with lsusb and the units going Zombie, however since he made that change (a few days ago?) I haven't recompiled CGMiner 3.8.3 from github to try it out. (Other people have reported this issue in 3.8.1, but I have not personally seen it.)

I've got 15 running all at 2.5GH/s - 3.10GH/s all below 4% error rate with BFGMiner 3.6.0 (along with a BFL Jally & 20 erupters). Uptime on the miner is more than a couple of days now, which is only because I took off the Fury units to replace the resistors.

So to the person stating that the rPi could be/is at fault, would be an incorrect statement, as there are many factors involved.

 I am getting some more red furies on fri.

 mine work great on windows 7 and with bfg.  if you want to lend me a bad stick I could run it on my system see if I get better results. I am in New Jersey.

 I would try putting 1 of them on real pc use bfg use cg even use bit minters java code. compare results.

  remember a pi is basically a toss away piece of gear.  at least try 2 or more mining clients. on your gear.

Minepeon CG or BFG

After running my remaining 12 BFs for some weeks fine with 1.900 to 2.800 GH, I have trouble since about a week. They are hashing for about 5 to 10 Minutes and then they are Zombies. I already bought other PSUs and Hubs and am running a fresh and clean git pulled Minepeon 0.2.4. It doesn't matter if there is 1 or 5 in a Hub (each Hub with at least 3A PSU, No Hub with more than 5 Units). I even changed the Multi socket (is it called so?) where the PSUs are plugged in.
Does any only have an idea? I can't believe they are all faulty...

note that if you go to BFG you will need to change drivers