GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 69.

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Quote from: Deezil on January 03, 2016, 02:09:45 PM

I received my 10 sticks (in addition to the two I already had) and got them setup on Minera using the cgminer-gekko custom version. I've been slowly increasing the clockrate/voltage but seem to be maxed out at 275 MHz with the voltage set at 700mV (drops to about 685mV when they are running). Even cranking the voltage up to 800mV I cannot get the hashrate higher than 275MHz without significant HW errors or complete stick failure (according to cg-miner). When I was only running two stick I had no issues running 433MHz at 800mV on the pot. I'm no hardware guy and I don't know crap about electricity, but my current setup includes 3 sets of 4 sticks, each set of four sticks are on a 12V / 3A powered USB 3.0 hub. They are all connected to my Sony VAIO laptop running ubuntu and Minera (that's all it does). I'm thinking at 12V / 3A I should have about 9watts available to each of the 4 sticks, which should be plenty, but I have no idea if that's correct or not. I can't seem to figure out how to calculate a basic formula for the consumption based on hashrate, or the other way to calculate maximum hashrate based on supply power. COoling is not an issue I have two 80mm fans on each set of four hashers and they are warm but not hot and have been running for days.

Also, I seem to have issues with COMPC 9, as you can see in the Screenshot link below. I get lots of HW errors. This stick is setup identically to the other 11 sticks but it is the only one that gives trouble, even when I switch it around to different ports/hubs it's always the troublemaker.

I also haven't considered limitations of cgminer (if any) in regards to running so many sticks on one instance of the program. Any help / pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am new to all this and eager to learn.

http://imgur.com/yp5oYsc

YMMV but my four sticks, each running at 750mV @ 350 MHz consume about 41 Watts at the wall on my Superbpag hub. As most have said here, I think it is the hub. If you have a Kill-A-Watt meter you can see how much the whole hub is pulling and that may give you some additional insight.

Also, my Superbpag 7 port says it is capable of 60 W but at 40 it starts to get very warm. I have a fan on it now and its elevated to get more airflow and I have seen a significant drop in Zombie sticks and HW error rate. May be coincidental, but temperature of the hub could play a role.

I am new to all of this too, but hopefully this may help.

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Quote from: Deezil on January 03, 2016, 03:34:01 PM

Quote from: sidehack on January 03, 2016, 03:11:29 PM

433MHz at 0.8V is probably about 3A per stick, so your hub is pushing 30W internally. Try setting the sticks to about 740mV and 300MHz, which should draw something like 6.8W per stick; four would then be about 27W total. See if it'll keep up. If you can, plug up first one stick, then two, then three, then four; after each stick, measure the 5V coming out of the hub ports and see if it's starting to drop. If you don't have an inline meter, use the meter you use to check core voltage and measure across the outside two pins on the USB plug.

Awesome! Thanks Sidehack, I'll keep trying and see if I can find the magic combo.

Quote from: Jake36 on January 03, 2016, 03:24:58 PM

^+1^

What kind of hub?

Sounds like some kind of limit on the power. 2 sticks is not drawing enough to trip the limit, but 4 sticks hit's the limit and some kind of protection cut's the power down (?, just guessing).

It's an Orico 10 port 12V 3A USB 3.0, just like this one on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBEVTKI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Maybe it distributes the power per-port so using only four I can't utilize all of the available power??

I didn't see anything on Amazon (even looked around on Orico site) about the power "output" for either per port or hub total. Did see something about 12V 2.5A power brick, so kind of leaning towards the hub not supplying enough power and they tried to fix it by going with a 12V 3A brick.

So I would do like sidehack said. Just start adding 1 stick at a time at 300MHz and see what it does.

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Quote from: sidehack on January 03, 2016, 03:11:29 PM

433MHz at 0.8V is probably about 3A per stick, so your hub is pushing 30W internally. Try setting the sticks to about 740mV and 300MHz, which should draw something like 6.8W per stick; four would then be about 27W total. See if it'll keep up. If you can, plug up first one stick, then two, then three, then four; after each stick, measure the 5V coming out of the hub ports and see if it's starting to drop. If you don't have an inline meter, use the meter you use to check core voltage and measure across the outside two pins on the USB plug.

Awesome! Thanks Sidehack, I'll keep trying and see if I can find the magic combo.

Quote from: Jake36 on January 03, 2016, 03:24:58 PM

^+1^

What kind of hub?

Sounds like some kind of limit on the power. 2 sticks is not drawing enough to trip the limit, but 4 sticks hit's the limit and some kind of protection cut's the power down (?, just guessing).

It's an Orico 10 port 12V 3A USB 3.0, just like this one on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBEVTKI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Maybe it distributes the power per-port so using only four I can't utilize all of the available power??

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Quote from: Landy1264 on January 03, 2016, 02:26:40 PM

Your ambient temp seems to high -> minera shows 143 degree Fahrenheit

That's the temp of the laptop itself though, not the miner sticks. It runs hot, always has. I think it's a Sony thing. The fan is barely going and it will sometimes get up near 200+ degrees and sounds like a jet engine when I'm running a bunch of stuff on it. Had it for 3+ years though and no problems with CPU or GPU and I use to do windows 7 development on it, and anything microsoft is a resource hog.

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^+1^

What kind of hub?

Sounds like some kind of limit on the power. 2 sticks is not drawing enough to trip the limit, but 4 sticks hit's the limit and some kind of protection cut's the power down (?, just guessing).

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I'd guess it's a per-port current limitation or the port voltage dropping low. If fewer sticks works just fine, likely it's a power limit with your hub. I run cgminer with 20 sticks at 200MHz and get full speed out of 'em so it's not a software limit. Even if it was, you wouldn't see errors as a result - the sticks just don't get as much work, probably due to a USB packet limitation, so they run starved and just report low hashrates because the hash cores spend some time idling and that's actually all the work they're doing.

7W per stick should get you up to 300MHz cleanly, but 7W per stick is 1.4A (or potentially up to 1.6A if your voltage is sagging) and not every hub can do that. If the voltage drops below about 0.4, even momentarily, the regulator will reset and your ASIC will trip up. How much power is going into a hub doesn't matter nearly as much as how much power the hub is capable of putting out through a single port, or collectively on several ports. You could drive that thing off a car battery with a couple hundred amps capacity and it might not behave any better if the ports themselves can't push more than one amp reliably. Or, more likely since you could push two sticks well enough, the internal 12->5V is sagging or current-limited such that it'll drive two sticks well but can't handle the power required for four.

433MHz at 0.8V is probably about 3A per stick, so your hub is pushing 30W internally. Try setting the sticks to about 740mV and 300MHz, which should draw something like 6.8W per stick; four would then be about 27W total. See if it'll keep up. If you can, plug up first one stick, then two, then three, then four; after each stick, measure the 5V coming out of the hub ports and see if it's starting to drop. If you don't have an inline meter, use the meter you use to check core voltage and measure across the outside two pins on the USB plug.

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Quote from: Deezil on January 03, 2016, 02:09:45 PM

I received my 10 sticks (in addition to the two I already had) and got them setup on Minera using the cgminer-gekko custom version. I've been slowly increasing the clockrate/voltage but seem to be maxed out at 275 MHz with the voltage set at 700mV (drops to about 685mV when they are running). Even cranking the voltage up to 800mV I cannot get the hashrate higher than 275MHz without significant HW errors or complete stick failure (according to cg-miner). When I was only running two stick I had no issues running 433MHz at 800mV on the pot. I'm no hardware guy and I don't know crap about electricity, but my current setup includes 3 sets of 4 sticks, each set of four sticks are on a 12V / 3A powered USB 3.0 hub. They are all connected to my Sony VAIO laptop running ubuntu and Minera (that's all it does). I'm thinking at 12V / 3A I should have about 9watts available to each of the 4 sticks, which should be plenty, but I have no idea if that's correct or not. I can't seem to figure out how to calculate a basic formula for the consumption based on hashrate, or the other way to calculate maximum hashrate based on supply power. COoling is not an issue I have two 80mm fans on each set of four hashers and they are warm but not hot and have been running for days.

Also, I seem to have issues with COMPC 9, as you can see in the Screenshot link below. I get lots of HW errors. This stick is setup identically to the other 11 sticks but it is the only one that gives trouble, even when I switch it around to different ports/hubs it's always the troublemaker.

I also haven't considered limitations of cgminer (if any) in regards to running so many sticks on one instance of the program. Any help / pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am new to all this and eager to learn.

Your ambient temp seems to high -> minera shows 143 degree Fahrenheit

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I received my 10 sticks (in addition to the two I already had) and got them setup on Minera using the cgminer-gekko custom version. I've been slowly increasing the clockrate/voltage but seem to be maxed out at 275 MHz with the voltage set at 700mV (drops to about 685mV when they are running). Even cranking the voltage up to 800mV I cannot get the hashrate higher than 275MHz without significant HW errors or complete stick failure (according to cg-miner). When I was only running two stick I had no issues running 433MHz at 800mV on the pot. I'm no hardware guy and I don't know crap about electricity, but my current setup includes 3 sets of 4 sticks, each set of four sticks are on a 12V / 3A powered USB 3.0 hub. They are all connected to my Sony VAIO laptop running ubuntu and Minera (that's all it does). I'm thinking at 12V / 3A I should have about 9watts available to each of the 4 sticks, which should be plenty, but I have no idea if that's correct or not. I can't seem to figure out how to calculate a basic formula for the consumption based on hashrate, or the other way to calculate maximum hashrate based on supply power. COoling is not an issue I have two 80mm fans on each set of four hashers and they are warm but not hot and have been running for days.

Also, I seem to have issues with COMPC 9, as you can see in the Screenshot link below. I get lots of HW errors. This stick is setup identically to the other 11 sticks but it is the only one that gives trouble, even when I switch it around to different ports/hubs it's always the troublemaker.

I also haven't considered limitations of cgminer (if any) in regards to running so many sticks on one instance of the program. Any help / pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am new to all this and eager to learn.

http://imgur.com/yp5oYsc

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Quote from: sidehack on January 03, 2016, 01:01:28 PM

Could be a code error and the PLL runs 205 instead of 410, which would put you at a hair over 11GH. Dunno.

It's gekko's tar, could it be a newer version of a USB driver or something? I did a bunch of updates to Raspberrian and had so ap get a bunch of USB libs pre make. Still a little lost in *nix but slowly working my way up from n00B

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Could be a code error and the PLL runs 205 instead of 410, which would put you at a hair over 11GH. Dunno.

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Ok, a question..

I'm at 785mv and when I run at 400mHz I get up to and over 24, long term average tho is around 20-22 I think
However, when I bump it to 410mHz, there are no HW errors, but my hash rate drops to 12
Its on the Superbpag 70w 7 port 14amp in slot 7, the only other draw would be the Arctic USB fan keeping it cool (in slot 2) and the RPI 0 (in slot1).
What is causing this? V drops? How do you calc the draw on a port via mv + mHz?
I can possibly power up the 2.0 hub and move the RPI 0 and Fan to the 2.0, and leave the 3.0 only running the Compac. Was hoping to run two fans 4 sticks and the RPI 0 off the Superbpag...

Thanks,

Drew

Still learning, I'd post pics, but I cant copy and paste them from the clipboard.

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Quote from: Biodom on January 03, 2016, 01:52:45 AM

Quote from: drew_ii on January 02, 2016, 11:48:23 PM

Quote from: Biodom on December 31, 2015, 02:38:20 PM

Quote from: drew_ii on December 31, 2015, 12:05:30 AM

Biodom - I don't know how to forum very well. What kind of 2.0 bridge are your using? I think mine is an iogear I got from frys.com like 1.5 years ago. I'll see about the superbag, glad to know your git it to work at least the pi is recognizing the stick over usb I can't even use kbd or mouse on 3.0!!; (but RaspNicBit works fine??!?!)

Thanks!!!

I used cheap Sabrent usb 2.0 as a bridge and connected keyboard, mouse, kanex usb to ethernet adapter (got it at microcenter; it is only needed for pi zero, no need for it if you use pi2) and Superbpag usb 3.0 powered hub to it. i used either kootek 5V 2.5A powersupply or canakit 2.5A powersupply for zero and pi2. Make sure that superbpag is powered, otherwise sticks will suck so much power that pi restarts.
I used sabrent specifically because rasp pi description said NOT to use usb 3.0 with keyboard and mouse (something about slow devices).
sabrent:
http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-4-Port-Individual-Switches-HB-UMLS/dp/B00BWF5U0

SUCCESS!!!

The Superbpag hub runs beautifully on standard Raspberrian w/cgminer-gekko installed. Ran it through an unplugged powered 2.0 hub. I may try direct later jyst to see. Thank ypu very much!! (the Sabrent arrives tomorrow, and the 3 more compacs arrive Mon)

Glad it worked out for you. Where are you getting sticks? I thought that they are sold out/almost sold out by now?

bitcoinware.net/.ca Its priced in CAD but the US exchange rate is good for us at the moment but the shipping is expensive. Still prices not as good as ASICPuppy but any port in a storm as they say...

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Quote from: drew_ii on January 02, 2016, 11:48:23 PM

Quote from: Biodom on December 31, 2015, 02:38:20 PM

Quote from: drew_ii on December 31, 2015, 12:05:30 AM

Biodom - I don't know how to forum very well. What kind of 2.0 bridge are your using? I think mine is an iogear I got from frys.com like 1.5 years ago. I'll see about the superbag, glad to know your git it to work at least the pi is recognizing the stick over usb I can't even use kbd or mouse on 3.0!!; (but RaspNicBit works fine??!?!)

Thanks!!!

I used cheap Sabrent usb 2.0 as a bridge and connected keyboard, mouse, kanex usb to ethernet adapter (got it at microcenter; it is only needed for pi zero, no need for it if you use pi2) and Superbpag usb 3.0 powered hub to it. i used either kootek 5V 2.5A powersupply or canakit 2.5A powersupply for zero and pi2. Make sure that superbpag is powered, otherwise sticks will suck so much power that pi restarts.
I used sabrent specifically because rasp pi description said NOT to use usb 3.0 with keyboard and mouse (something about slow devices).
sabrent:
http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-4-Port-Individual-Switches-HB-UMLS/dp/B00BWF5U0

SUCCESS!!!

The Superbpag hub runs beautifully on standard Raspberrian w/cgminer-gekko installed. Ran it through an unplugged powered 2.0 hub. I may try direct later jyst to see. Thank ypu very much!! (the Sabrent arrives tomorrow, and the 3 more compacs arrive Mon)

Glad it worked out for you. Where are you getting sticks? I thought that they are sold out/almost sold out by now?

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Quote from: Biodom on December 31, 2015, 02:38:20 PM

Quote from: drew_ii on December 31, 2015, 12:05:30 AM

Biodom - I don't know how to forum very well. What kind of 2.0 bridge are your using? I think mine is an iogear I got from frys.com like 1.5 years ago. I'll see about the superbag, glad to know your git it to work at least the pi is recognizing the stick over usb I can't even use kbd or mouse on 3.0!!; (but RaspNicBit works fine??!?!)

Thanks!!!

I used cheap Sabrent usb 2.0 as a bridge and connected keyboard, mouse, kanex usb to ethernet adapter (got it at microcenter; it is only needed for pi zero, no need for it if you use pi2) and Superbpag usb 3.0 powered hub to it. i used either kootek 5V 2.5A powersupply or canakit 2.5A powersupply for zero and pi2. Make sure that superbpag is powered, otherwise sticks will suck so much power that pi restarts.
I used sabrent specifically because rasp pi description said NOT to use usb 3.0 with keyboard and mouse (something about slow devices).
sabrent:
http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-4-Port-Individual-Switches-HB-UMLS/dp/B00BWF5U0

SUCCESS!!!

The Superbpag hub runs beautifully on standard Raspberrian w/cgminer-gekko installed. Ran it through an unplugged powered 2.0 hub. I may try direct later jyst to see. Thank ypu very much!! (the Sabrent arrives tomorrow, and the 3 more compacs arrive Mon)

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Groovy. Glad you got 'em working. Hopefully there's nothing serious causing BFG incompatibility (that's not something we test for). Definitely let me know if you have any more trouble. I guarantee what I build, which means fix or replace.

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Quote from: sidehack on December 31, 2015, 03:47:45 PM

toptek - you cannot overclock these with software only. You have to manually turn up the voltage in order to get higher clock rates to work. Provided it stays cool, you cannot break the stick by turning the voltage up too high. If you somehow do, and it's not the result of something like running it at full power with no heatsink and the ASIC melts off, I'll fix it. If you get a stick that doesn't work or misbehaves right out of the box, I'll fix it. But to determine what's misbehaving about it - whether it's grounds for warranty repair or just some misconfiguration, you have to be willing to do some hardware diagnosis and tweaking.

I know ,i was saying i wasn't taking the stick over defaults and id rather soft ware oc if i do , and the only thing i do OC is my PCs for games, i still play WoW and it's a nice PC/s i have three PC i built and keep them upgraded with new parts as needed or as they come out and are good enough to replace the old ones,some new released gear is shit, so, i don't upgrade to it, till it is improved more . and also sense you all tested it before it was shipped, i have no idea how it got out of adjustment, and no one in my house would, i didn't do it, i assumed it came with default setting which broke the first rule of PC 101 or anything all ways make sure don't assume. if i had fully made sure i would not be here explaining or asking :") . other wise forget it, i won't return it . if it was over a 100 bucks i would . i got it working with CG you did your part, ID rather use BFG . I am very willing to TS stuff if it seems I'm not there are reason for that i all ways do and will be willing to, it's others that are not so i end up being a ass and don't want to be.i did say i don't like doing it if i don't understand it fully by that i meant i will i need to read or study it more till i understand what is being said then i know it better then most who know it now etc etc. I love tweaking stuff but i have no skills for most hard ware tweaking at the hard ware level but will do it and i know the risk , i have messed up a few S5 and PC tiring different hard ware modes. and other stuff over the years .

cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2015-12-31 23:51:53.142]
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(5s):10.68G (1m):11.46G (5m):11.11G (15m):10.63G (avg):11.01Gh/s

Code:

 A:8192  R:0  HW:6  WU:153.7/m
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 512 with stratum as user 13Xb4Rvqoe
 Block: 18ba3354...  Diff:104G  Started: [00:28:57.977]  Best share: 14.7K
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 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000779: 200MHz                  | 10.12G / 11.01Gh/s WU:153.7/m
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 [2016-01-01 00:07:30.260] Accepted 63cf83ca Diff 657/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:11:04.171] Accepted 750dc7aa Diff 560/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:14:36.069] Accepted 47783eb2 Diff 917/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:15:40.287] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2016-01-01 00:17:59.933] Accepted 20b360d1 Diff 2K/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:18:13.302] Accepted 39bebcfd Diff 1.14K/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:18:31.315] Accepted 29da2caf Diff 1.57K/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:20:01.399] Accepted 2273b5f7 Diff 1.9K/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:22:15.125] Accepted 1ccaeb1c Diff 2.28K/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:22:30.787] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2016-01-01 00:28:57.977] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2016-01-01 00:29:15.502] Accepted 604a67ec Diff 681/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 00:29:33.650] Accepted 46a7c508 Diff 928/512 COMPAC 0

cgminer version 4.9.2 - Started: [2016-01-01 01:13:19.687]
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(5s):22.91G (1m):22.15G (5m):12.68G (15m):5.455G (avg):21.71Gh/s

With both sticks using minera both are very stable now ty for the help. The API error is a bug, kanoi confirmed it was here http://x2t.com/422544 for anyone interested the fix is here http://x2t.com/422545

Code:

A:1536  R:0  HW:2  WU:303.3/m
 Connected to stratum.mining.eligius.st diff 512 with stratum as user 13Xb4Rvqoe
 Block: 6eb005d3...  Diff:104G  Started: [01:13:19.689]  Best share: 963
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 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: COMPAC 10000279: 200MHz                  | 12.69G / 11.01Gh/s WU:153.4/m
 1: COMPAC 10000779: 200MHz                  | 13.01G / 10.73Gh/s WU:149.9/m
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 [2016-01-01 01:13:16.356] Started cgminer 4.9.2
 [2016-01-01 01:13:16.357] Loaded configuration file /var/www/minera/conf/miner_
conf.json
 [2016-01-01 01:13:18.686] Probing for an alive pool
 [2016-01-01 01:13:18.895] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512.0
 [2016-01-01 01:13:19.689] Network diff set to 104G
 [2016-01-01 01:13:19.689] API: ignored invalid IPv4 address '--api-listen --api
-allow W:127.0.0.1/24' (as ::ffff:--api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1)
 [2016-01-01 01:13:24.691] API running in IP access mode on port 4028 (15)
 [2016-01-01 01:15:04.643] Accepted 7c0145ee Diff 528/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 01:16:26.305] Accepted 5e2ba3b2 Diff 696/512 COMPAC 0
 [2016-01-01 01:16:40.619] Accepted 441118e0 Diff 963/512 COMPAC 1

I knew i would have to adjust one of the sticks and what happen was i got them mixed up, they are marked now so i know which stick is which batch if I had not mixed them up i don't think id be here explaing my self sigh . MY bad I take blame for that .

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toptek - you cannot overclock these with software only. You have to manually turn up the voltage in order to get higher clock rates to work. Provided it stays cool, you cannot break the stick by turning the voltage up too high. If you somehow do, and it's not the result of something like running it at full power with no heatsink and the ASIC melts off, I'll fix it. If you get a stick that doesn't work or misbehaves right out of the box, I'll fix it. But to determine what's misbehaving about it - whether it's grounds for warranty repair or just some misconfiguration, you have to be willing to do some hardware diagnosis and tweaking.

Biodom - stock USB power setting is actually about 610mV 150MHz. That's what I was testing with and assumed what they were shipping set to, but after a while I found out Novak was setting them higher and testing with 200MHz before packing to ship. So that's what the "default" is for a factory-fresh stick. I told Luke-Jr that 150MHz was the "default" setting but I think he built the driver off U3, which defaults to 225MHz, so he just left it set there. Try 250MHz with cgminer-gekko instead of BFG. I don't know if BFG ramps up frequency or not, but cgminer-gekko does which saves a bit of burst juice when the stick initializes. The stick might trip itself up and not initialize properly at full speed under BFG, but cgminer-gekko shouldn't have that problem.

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Quote from: sidehack on December 31, 2015, 03:04:15 PM

779 is definitely from "batch 2". Strange that its voltage was set low. Every stick we've run out got tested at 200MHz, so the voltage was set to 640-650mV by either Novak or I before sending out. Maybe someone messed with it? Looks pretty good now.

i thought (mistakenly) that default was 225mhz. Anyway, all of my sticks (five batch1 and 4 batch 2) had wiper on ~10pm and worked fine at ~11gh on usb 3.0, which, of course, can support 650mv. I tried to turn one stick wiper to 12pm and issued

--set compac:clock=250

, but somehow it did not work in that bfgminer did not "jump"on it-said no sticks recognized.
i don't want to mess the whole thing up, so tried only with one stick.

OT: still trying to double boot my Windows 8.1 PC with either Debian or Linux-this UEFI thingie-what nonsense! i learned to completely disable safeboot and fast boot, but then UEFI stick does not work, only CD works, and then computer completely crashes in the end and debian partition is unavailable (grub does not load). Decided to just basically backup PC (1gb external Toshiba is just $54.99 from Microcenter), then disable all safeboot/fastboot, leave just legacy and try for the last time plus use boot repair stick (as I saw grub partition, but for some stupid reason it won't load). If it would not work, last resort is just to buy cheap win7 off the ebay and proceed from there.

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Quote from: sidehack on December 31, 2015, 03:04:15 PM

779 is definitely from "batch 2". Strange that its voltage was set low. Every stick we've run out got tested at 200MHz, so the voltage was set to 640-650mV by either Novak or I before sending out. Maybe someone messed with it? Looks pretty good now.

no not really now it worked for maybe two mins the hard errors shot up to 774 and then it died . it still works , i know more of what i have to do now . i won't give up and won't return it . it fun time now just getting it right .

thanks some what . but no lie i have yet to touch any hard ware setting, i'd rather use Software for me that's easier if I over clock my PC or video cards i use Soft ware . it's cool

Thanks and even if it bad don't worry about it, it's not a hundred or more bucks i d say some thing then . no no one has messed with it in my house .

fixed the dead stick thing it over heated i put a fan on it, now it's running great, but not in BFG. no big deal .

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779 is definitely from "batch 2". Strange that its voltage was set low. Every stick we've run out got tested at 200MHz, so the voltage was set to 640-650mV by either Novak or I before sending out. Maybe someone messed with it? Looks pretty good now.

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