Topic: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 39. (Read 268030 times)

When you say "installed the zadig" I assume you mean you used Zadig to install libusb drivers to the device?

Your BFG string is probably wrong; if you're using any kind of recent version (5.4 or so) the clock setting is a proper integer, not hex. Not sure if this is noted on the first page or if it's just early on in the thread. If you want cgminer, use cgminer-gekko as noted on the first page (there should be a Windows download link somewhere) and pass compac-freq instead of au3-freq as noted on the first page.

Hey all, new to the world of crypto's and mining and decided to pick up one of these stickminers just for fun to mine some coins, but I'm having some difficulty getting it going.
My issue is that neither CGMiner (4.9.0) nor BFGMiner (5.4.2) will recognize the compac. I have installed the zadig but no luck. My computer (running Windows 7) does recognize that I plugged in a USB and I can successfully connect to pools (Slush's, Nicehash for Bitcoin and Ecoining for Peercoin). I'm also getting a solid green light on the compac, so it's powered on.
The commands I'm running via batch file are these;

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u Username.worker -p Password --set compac:clock=x0b83
(also tried without the --set compac:clock=x0b83)

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u Username.worker -p Password --au3-freq 150
(also tried without the --au3-freq 150 and via manually entering in URL, user, and password in CGMiner)

I've read the first page of this thread (many, many times) and done a fair share of Googling, but just can't seem to find what I need to get it to work. Do I need older versions of CGminer or BFGminer? Is the mining software not even able to recognize an ASIC with this low of hashrate anymore?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

one of my new sticks kind of did what yours did.. was running great, then nothing.
i put the volt meter on it and it showed 0..

i turned the pot just a small amount.. and it all came back to life.

its like the pot was in a dead spot.

Tested them both direct connected to my laptop, so no hub. Wanted to rule out anything I could that might cause an issue.

Tried both USB ports on the laptop just to be sure. Same results.

When you checked, did you plug the no reading 1, it into a different slot on the hub or into the same slot as the stick that you got readings on? If it was in the same slot, that would rule out something in the hub going out.

back of that ascii part  on the heatsink looks less black then my burnt one thats for sure haha ;p

I don't see anything?

Sorry maybe not the best pics, I can try and take better ones tomorrow in daylight.

http://imgur.com/UfmggW0
http://imgur.com/syxVyGT

Something definitely happened to cause the power to kick out. Either the ASIC shot craps, or it's an issue with the power circuit itself. The ASIC shouldn't shoot craps unless it was run too hot. Is there discoloration on the backside of the PCB?

So I used my volt meter on the good stick, and got a reading. So I knew I was doing things right. I plugged in the "bad" stick, green light comes on. Check with volt meter shows 0. Start up cgminer. Still shows 0. Let cgminer do its thing, and try to hotplug. Still shows 0. Test the volt meter against my good stick, and I get readings.

So does this mean the asic is bad? Or maybe something blew? Like I said, all was good until I did a reboot of my PI the other day. Now only one stick is good.

Anything else I can try and test to see if I can diagnose it?

A good place to start would be reading the first page of this thread.

Hey everyone, I'm new here and just looking for some help... I just bought a raspberry pi 3 and 3 of the geckoscience USB sticks. I already have 6 asic block erupters as well. I plan on setting all this up tomorrow and found a link to configuring raspbian with combiner and the black erupters using:

http://skybin.net/block-erupters-on-raspberry-pi/

BUT i have no idea how to use the gecko USB sticks as well. Could anyone please help me with my custom config?!?

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Or only wants to fiddle around with the little Fun miner?

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Are the heatsinks on the bitshopper ones held on with paste and screws or pads and screws?

Just ordered myself a couple of thermal pads and heatsinks so wanted to prepare myself for the change over.

bfgminer (all OS): no zadig
cgminer (windows): use zadig
cgminer (Linux): no zadig



starting the software and then plugging the USB compac does help with cgminer.

ya they can be a little tricky finding out which driver likes your pc and miner prog.
i personally had the Slilabs driver install itself in win10-64, and had to use Zadiag 2.2 to manually install the winusb 6.1 driver for bfgminer
BUT cgminer (gekko version)  worked out of box for me picked up the sticks np
sometimes if you have the miner running but says "no device found" replug them, it may fire them up (while keeping the miner running)
just my two cents
read the op ya haha, it explains it better, good luck!

Have you read the first page of this thread? What are you running the gekko on (raspi, Linux, windows)? Are you using a powered usb hub?

hello,,


i am beginners for mining and i bought a gekkoscience compac usb stick BM1384.

i will try to last 3 days but in bfgminer and cgminer and any other miner don't detect my device so please tell me about first step by step to how to use this device

i don't know how to give a power to my device. so tell me hurry

  that is an idea. Think I'll get a self adhesive one for a raspi and stick it on the underside. Then see what I can get it up to.

On a slightly different note. I've got my gekko hooked up to a USB splitter so draws from two ports. The powered hub is rated for 2.5a. But obviously only delivers 500ma per port according to the specs. If I was to get a 12v-5v 3A step down USB board that I can run from a PSU breakout board, would it draw power equally from the two leads or would it draw more from the side of the splitter connected to the 3a supply?

And the green heatsink is bigger

 all 3 of my sticks are green heatsinks
i turned my sticks down a bit , now running at 250mhz about 13.5gh/s ;p