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Quote from: Beastlymac on December 25, 2013, 08:35:44 PM

The design of the BlueFury and the way it was stock clocked was to make sure that it didn't kill the chip. Heating the chip and putting it under extra strain is likely to shorten the life of the chip and possibly even cause the board to malfunction rendering your device useless.

Thank you Beastlymac, exactly what I wanted to know, I will stay with stock clock

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Quote from: induktor on December 25, 2013, 03:04:40 PM

Quote from: junky998 on December 24, 2013, 07:14:04 AM

Hi,

I had 3 red furies pencil modded to 3 Ghash each
I'm cooling them with an artic breeze usb fan and it seems all right as compared to touching the heat sink when without cooling.
However the ASIC chip is too hot to touch.

Not sure whether this is burn or shortened the life span of the miners.
Please advise, thanks.

very good question!
I will like very much to hear the official position of beastlymac about this, how safe it is, lifespan of a modded BF,etc.

The design of the BlueFury and the way it was stock clocked was to make sure that it didn't kill the chip. Heating the chip and putting it under extra strain is likely to shorten the life of the chip and possibly even cause the board to malfunction rendering your device useless.

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Find a mechanic, borrow his laser temp tool, cheap nowdays, point the laser hit target lock it in when you get a good reading.
Nice tool to have for computer work, VERY Accurate. Cheap now also.

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Quote from: junky998 on December 24, 2013, 07:14:04 AM

Hi,

I had 3 red furies pencil modded to 3 Ghash each
I'm cooling them with an artic breeze usb fan and it seems all right as compared to touching the heat sink when without cooling.
However the ASIC chip is too hot to touch.

Not sure whether this is burn or shortened the life span of the miners.
Please advise, thanks.

very good question!
I will like very much to hear the official position of beastlymac about this, how safe it is, lifespan of a modded BF,etc.

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Hi,

I had 3 red furies pencil modded to 3 Ghash each
I'm cooling them with an artic breeze usb fan and it seems all right as compared to touching the heat sink when without cooling.
However the ASIC chip is too hot to touch.

Not sure whether this is burn or shortened the life span of the miners.
Please advise, thanks.

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Quote from: LogicalUnit on December 22, 2013, 02:02:49 AM

Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 21, 2013, 04:35:02 AM

Quote from: LogicalUnit on December 21, 2013, 02:25:15 AM

Hi all, I just removed the Block Erupters from my rig, leaving me with 3 Blue Fury ASICs connected to my MinePeon. I reset the command line to "default bfgminer" and now the miner starts and connects to my pools, but it does not detect the mining hardware.

What command parameters do I need to make Blue Fury ASICs work with bfgminer 3.3.0?

Thanks

Update your MinePeon

Just installed MinePeon 0.2.4.1 with bfgminer 3.4.0, and it's not automagically detecting my Blue Furies.

Do a git pull for minepeon, you need 0.2.4.2 with 3.8.0

Edit:- -S BPM:all

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Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 21, 2013, 04:35:02 AM

Quote from: LogicalUnit on December 21, 2013, 02:25:15 AM

Hi all, I just removed the Block Erupters from my rig, leaving me with 3 Blue Fury ASICs connected to my MinePeon. I reset the command line to "default bfgminer" and now the miner starts and connects to my pools, but it does not detect the mining hardware.

What command parameters do I need to make Blue Fury ASICs work with bfgminer 3.3.0?

Thanks

Update your MinePeon

Just installed MinePeon 0.2.4.1 with bfgminer 3.4.0, and it's not automagically detecting my Blue Furies.

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Quote from: LogicalUnit on December 21, 2013, 02:25:15 AM

Hi all, I just removed the Block Erupters from my rig, leaving me with 3 Blue Fury ASICs connected to my MinePeon. I reset the command line to "default bfgminer" and now the miner starts and connects to my pools, but it does not detect the mining hardware.

What command parameters do I need to make Blue Fury ASICs work with bfgminer 3.3.0?

Thanks

Update your MinePeon

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Quote from: LogicalUnit on December 21, 2013, 02:25:15 AM

Hi all, I just removed the Block Erupters from my rig, leaving me with 3 Blue Fury ASICs connected to my MinePeon. I reset the command line to "default bfgminer" and now the miner starts and connects to my pools, but it does not detect the mining hardware.

What command parameters do I need to make Blue Fury ASICs work with bfgminer 3.3.0?

Thanks

There are instructions about miner and driver installation earlier in this thread (for example https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.msg3698786;topicseen#msg3698786).
Good luck

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Hi all, I just removed the Block Erupters from my rig, leaving me with 3 Blue Fury ASICs connected to my MinePeon. I reset the command line to "default bfgminer" and now the miner starts and connects to my pools, but it does not detect the mining hardware.

What command parameters do I need to make Blue Fury ASICs work with bfgminer 3.3.0?

Thanks

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Quote from: bitterdog on November 29, 2013, 01:06:50 PM

I have 2 units that show up in the device manager as ATmega32u2DFU is there a way to fix this?

Windows 7

Still haven't fixed these 2, anyone with any suggestions?
Ive used the alpha drivers, Ive used Zadig.. neither helped
I don't know jack about linux

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Quote from: Beastlymac on December 19, 2013, 12:12:27 AM

Have you tried
resetting the device.
Reflashing the device?
Contacting Ckolivas to check if he has a fix?
Or
Nwoolls

I found another thread that talked about changing two USB settings, then disconnecting and reconnecting the devices. They seem to work again.

Now I'm tempted to try the pencil mod. Undecided

EDIT:

I was able to reproduce my issue, once again the solution was the same. Unload some USB things manually in terminal and then potential unplug the usb hub or devices and re-plug in. I'm adding details to this thread from another because I'm sure it will help someone...

"Just as a heads up, the only way I was able to get cgminer to see my BlueFury under Mac OS 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 was to 'unload' the new USB modem

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCACMData

Hopefully this will save someone else a LOT of hair pulling"

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Have you tried
resetting the device.
Reflashing the device?
Contacting Ckolivas to check if he has a fix?
Or
Nwoolls

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Quote from: Beastlymac on December 18, 2013, 11:42:53 PM

Quote from: BrainBot on December 18, 2013, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: Beastlymac on December 18, 2013, 10:36:36 PM

Seems like a permissions error try starting with sudo. Or restarting your computer. Or even re installing cgminer. I found those three generally fix the problem.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I've tried all 3 of your suggestions but I'm still getting the same errors.

Have you tried Bitminter and Bfgminer?

I haven't used Bitminter but just starting up a fresh install of Bfgminer detects 0 devices.

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Quote from: BrainBot on December 18, 2013, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: Beastlymac on December 18, 2013, 10:36:36 PM

Seems like a permissions error try starting with sudo. Or restarting your computer. Or even re installing cgminer. I found those three generally fix the problem.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I've tried all 3 of your suggestions but I'm still getting the same errors.

Have you tried Bitminter and Bfgminer?

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Quote from: Beastlymac on December 18, 2013, 10:36:36 PM

Seems like a permissions error try starting with sudo. Or restarting your computer. Or even re installing cgminer. I found those three generally fix the problem.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I've tried all 3 of your suggestions but I'm still getting the same errors.

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Seems like a permissions error try starting with sudo. Or restarting your computer. Or even re installing cgminer. I found those three generally fix the problem.

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I had 2 reds and a blue running great on Mac OS with cgminer 3.8.4

Now I get this error for all 3...

"failed to initialise (incorrect device?)"

Any ideas what the issue might be? Sad

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Quote from: Beastlymac on December 16, 2013, 04:54:33 AM

Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 16, 2013, 04:53:14 AM

Quote from: Beastlymac on December 13, 2013, 12:45:13 PM

Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 13, 2013, 12:29:36 PM

Hi Beastlymac
Please can you tell me the grade of thermal tape you used for the Bluefury heatsink mounting?

I will try and find out tomorrow for you.

0.95 thermal conductivity. -30 degrees to 120 degrees.

Hi Beastlymac
Thanks for the info. I have a cooling fan to mount on one of these fury's (found one with the same hole pitch, £1.64 including delivery) then I just need some mounting tape.
Overclocking for Christmas. (more fun than a turkey)

Sounds good I would love to see photos if you can

Will do. I need to go steady with the overclocking, unless Santa brings me a thermal camera.

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Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 16, 2013, 04:53:14 AM

Quote from: Beastlymac on December 13, 2013, 12:45:13 PM

Quote from: Mudbankkeith on December 13, 2013, 12:29:36 PM

Hi Beastlymac
Please can you tell me the grade of thermal tape you used for the Bluefury heatsink mounting?

I will try and find out tomorrow for you.

0.95 thermal conductivity. -30 degrees to 120 degrees.

Hi Beastlymac
Thanks for the info. I have a cooling fan to mount on one of these fury's (found one with the same hole pitch, £1.64 including delivery) then I just need some mounting tape.
Overclocking for Christmas. (more fun than a turkey)

Sounds good I would love to see photos if you can

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