Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 8. (Read 61982 times)

Newbie question.

I have an r606 currently mining. If I were to purchase a couple of the newpac f sticks can I plug them into the same computer and mine with them as well using cgminer?

Where do you measure the voltage at on the NewPac?  Does anyone have a voltage chart showing what voltage for a given frequency?

Because cgminer is sometimes included in malware programs to mine in the background without the PC user knowing it, Norton and most AV programs erroneously tag cgminer as malware. Just tell your AV program to ignore it.

Also there is a newer version of cgminer, it was updated by Kano to run Sidehack's latest stick and improve operation of his older ones. The whole shebang for it is here.
Trimmed version dealing with using the Win binary,edit: The Zadig USB driver is here https://zadig.akeo.ie/

I am very new to all of this.  My computer knowledge is barely above a newbie.

I have tried to select the May 26, 2019 and norton freaks out and will not let me go forward at all.

Am i doing something wrong is there a new driver to download.

Please help.

Talk about cutting every fraction of a penny they can on production costs... That is taking it too far. The only reasoning I can see is someone decided, "if a customer wants to use the mobo plug then they have access to something like the Wikipedia on ATX and can look at the pinouts. Who needs colors  `cause they would know the colors from the same spec sheet as the pinouts!"

In that wiki, search for "color" to see what the 20-pin plug is supposed to use. I hope they did not also decide to use aluminum wiring for the flying leads... Twits.

On my Seasonic Titanium they are all black.

@ altruisticminer  Faboo! Merit given for letting us know you got things worked out  

@ OS2sam, all the wires the same color? If so then the PSU does not meet the ATX standards - those mainly deal with the physical sizes, AC power connection and cooling vent locations and of course, wire colors. The PON signal wire is supposed to be green and blacks are supposed to all be returns...

Glad to hear it.

That connector came with the last few Power Supplies I've bought.  They do make things easier.  Especially when all the wires are the same color.

nevermind, a quick reboot and repositioning of the paperclip and I'm back in action!

Thanks so much to everyone that helped out with comments!

...

Just ordered one of these for the PSU:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X9SVB5K?psc=1&smid=A1QLGMVB669WW&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp



cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-21 08:51:19.768]
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 (5s):1.013T (1m):1.016T (5m):1.017T (15m):986.4G (avg):983.1Gh/s
 A:709450  R:8192  HW:157  WU:13734.2/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 1.06K with stratum as user ------.worker1
 Block: 1fce3401...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [09:39:48.710]  Best share: 572K
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 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 750.00MHz T:750 P:750 (8:4)   | 98.9% WU:^96% | 1.016T / 983.1G
h/s WU:13734.2/m----------------------------------------------------------------

and here is the message when I quit:

[2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] Summary of per device statistics:
                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 0 (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 1 (5s):0.000 (avg):3.486Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:51.1/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 2 (5s):0.000 (avg):11.27Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:157.4/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 3 (5s):0.000 (avg):4.741Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:66.2/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 4 (5s):0.000 (avg):1.725Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:24.1/m   

thanks for the help with the paperclip!

...

I just plugged in the PSU and now I'm getting this set of errors, any ideas how to interpret?



 cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-21 08:33:59.938]
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 (5s):4.402M (1m):13.90G (5m):15.12G (15m):6.851G (avg):42.40Gh/s
 A:0  R:8192  HW:0  WU:597.3/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 512 with stratum as user -----.worker1
 Block: 288029d8...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [08:33:59.939]  Best share: 847
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 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12  200.00MHz T:750 P:0   (10:16) |  0.0% WU:  0% | ZOMBIE
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 [2021-10-21 08:34:16.183] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 2
 [2021-10-21 08:34:32.314] GSI 2 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:34:36.944] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-21 08:34:37.210] 3: GSI 3 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040368)
 [2021-10-21 08:34:37.211] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 3
 [2021-10-21 08:34:45.053] GSI 3 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.656] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.925] 4: GSI 4 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040368)
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.925] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 4
 [2021-10-21 08:34:50.428] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1638
 [2021-10-21 08:34:50.429] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2021-10-21 08:34:52.548] GSI 4 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:35:20.452] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512

Alternatively, fool-proof and maybe more secure long-term (paperclip might fall out) - one of these.
Just looking for 'PSU jumpers' yields many (also cheap) results.
Also included in many higher-end PSUs as far as I know.

Only trick is that you will need the 'paperclip trick' to turn on the PSU. If you look at the large mobo plug you will see a green wire in it, use a piece of wire or bare metal paperclip to join the green to one of the black wires next to it to turn on the power.

The powersupply I have is a 2yr old Corsair TX550M

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supply-Units/txm-series-2017-config/p/CP-9020133-NA#
https://www.corsair.com/corsairmedia/sys_master/productcontent/TXM_Manual.pdf

I think this should work fine, do you agree?

Now I need to try to track down a 6pin cable...

Just plug one of the 6pin PCIE cables into the R606 connector.

Thanks for the recommendations.

I'll double check the USB.

I have a suspicion it is the power supply. This is the power supply I currently have:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z9X4GLW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


I have a few old computers laying around. Any suggestions on how to utilize the power supply from one of them?

The only time I couldn't get mine over 200Mhz is when I had it connected through a USB 2.0 hub.

Are you plugged directly into the USB Port on the Pi 4?  Try both the 2.0 and 3.0 Ports on it.

Verify your Power Supply is good.  I use an ATX computer P/S.

I agree, in the past on a reboot it would always work its way up to the 750 target and land at ~1Th/s

It seems like maybe this is a hardware issue since I haven't changed anything in software or settings... I'm just not really sure how to interpret it or how to test it.

Any ideas?

It' really odd that your Freq is 175Mhz but your Target is 31Mhz and Plateau is 25Mhz.

I don't recall ever seeing something like that.

my R606 has been running nearly perfectly for 1yr at roughly 1 terahash... I did have a power supply fail, but swapped that out and was up and running a day later...

Just recently it dropped to a very low hash rate and I'm unsure what the trouble might be.

I'm running on the same Raspberry Pi4 controller and using the same configuration as previous:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u -----------.worker1 -p x --suggest-diff 128 --gekko-r606-freq 750


Here is what I'm seeing:

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-15 17:06:28.984]
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 (5s):22.69G (1m):20.16G (5m):20.13G (15m):20.04G (avg):19.23Gh/s
 A:1396224  R:9728  HW:437  WU:268.6/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 512 with stratum as user -----------.worker1
 Block: 1740459c...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [11:09:56.212]  Best share: 825K
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 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 175.00MHz T:31  P:25  (26:18)  |  9.0% WU:^ 7% | 23.45G / 19.23Gh/s WU:268.6/m
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Any suggestions on setting or changes I could make to get back to 1 terahash?

Thanks!