... windows ...
Yes this BFL has been acting bizarre for over a week now.
I made some changes to cgminer to fix a possible hang if something went wrong with the BFL
(bug which I found coz things did go wrong with my BFL)
Thus on one morning when I found it had been dead for 3 hours, I powered it off, switched the software and to my surprise the BFL went back to mining full speed for almost 2 days.
Of course it's clearly some stupidity in the throttling hardware, since it was running 10C higher and not throttling for almost 2 days until it went back to half hash rate.
Anyway, since it's now connected to a windows box I tried easyminer and it firstly failed (the BFL showed up then disappeared from the screen)
I tried cgminer again and it was still happy to mine at half speed
Anyway, went back into easyminer and this time it didn't disappear ...
Ran a short test and it said all tests failed ... odd since it was still able to mine happily at half speed
(which I tested again after with cgminer and it was again mining at ~half speed)
Then I tried putting the 800 bitstream in it.
cgminer seemed happy to hash at a lower speed and a lower temp of course (~35°C) and was running both FPGA fine - total ~792MH/s
... and then I thought, what the heck I'll try the fastest bitstream
... and it's now running fine at ~870MH/s for over 90minutes ... 48.70°C
So back to what I said when I first got it - the throttling hardware in these things suck badly.
If only they had left that to software to deal with it properly instead of the crap they put in them to deal with it so poorly ...
Lets see how long this thing lasts at 870MH/s ...