Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 8. (Read 61321 times)

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any suggestions on setting or changes I could make to get back to 1 terahash?

Thanks!

Hello !
I post here because I need some help. I bought 3 GekkoScience NewPac ASIC Miner since a while and I'm encountering a problem with one of them. For the details : I'm running them at 300Mhz with active cooling, they are plugged on a 10-Port USB Hub coming from Sipolar and using a RaspberryPi 4 (the hub is plugged on the 2.0 port). I have the message "0 Chip(s) found" Do you know what can the problem could be ? Thanks !

You use the hubs to power the devices, the chain is for the data.
So e.g. if you have 2 hubs that can power a miner each, then you put a miner in each 'powered' hub and chain them to the computer.

Of course if you are talking about standard USB, you can use a hub to distribute power to multiple devices, but the miners use way too much power to consider doing that.

Hi guys!
New here and searched the 108 pages or this thread but no luck finding a solution to my problem.
So I had the R606 running fine for about a month but now it keeps crashing.
I can plug it in and it turns on normally wit orange and white light but as soon as I connect the USB cable it will shutdown and restart a few times and eventually terminate cgminer.
The same thing happens on Windows 10 or Ubuntu.
Someone mentioned the temp sensor.
Where is it located?
I could try replacing it.
Thanks


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 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Started cgminer 4.11.1-wrk
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.375] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.489] Rejected untracked stratum share from pool 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.402] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.730] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.992] 0: GSH 0 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036204)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] 1: GSH 1 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036884)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] Network diff set to 19.9T
 [2021-10-14 23:58:33.901] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] 2: GSI 0 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:36.090] GSI 0 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.568] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] 3: GSI 1 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 1
 [2021-10-14 23:58:46.769] GSI 1 failure, disabling!

The only concern is that the power hub has enough power per-port available and how it divvies it up. Some like the 7-port one from Plugable can only supply full power (3A) to 3 ports: 1, 3, 5. Ports 2,4,6 & 7 each share regulated power with those 1st 3 I listed.

Most folks here will recommend Sidehack's hub as it can supply 3A per-port (or 6A if you use every other one).

Does anyone know if I can daisy chain powered usb hubs to mine with Gekkoscience Newpacs? My laptop doesn’t have enough USB ports; so I was wondering whether my 3rd powered hub could be connected to the 2nd via usb and still work? Or would that damage the miners?

Thanks for the info! This isn’t the easiest site to navigate, I guess I must’ve missed that thread.

It is all spelled out in the Compaq-F support thread

Direct locations:
The master git for cgminer is https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer

CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

That includes linux compile steps, but to repeat, on linux:

CGMiner Windows 10 32bit binary
https://kano.is/cgminer.zip
It will probably work on older windows, but I'm only testing it on Windows 10

The instructions to compile it yourself on Windows 10 are here:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/windows-build.txt

As with all USB miners on Windows, you must install Zadig and setup the miner.
This is documented in the CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

So, I’ve just searched GitHub and I can’t find 4.12 but maybe I missed it? Would you mind sharing a link if you know where I can get it for windows 10?

Thanks!

All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.

Hi guys,

I’ve just ordered 3 GekkoScience Compac F sticks, and I was hoping that someone would be able to answer this question for me:

Can I run them together with my R606 and my Newpacs using CGMiner, or must I use some other program? In case it matters, I?m using a windows 10 laptop as the head for my miners.

Thanks in advance!