[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Blade Setup - page 14.

InfiniteGrim

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Quote from: sidehack on December 11, 2013, 12:40:52 PM

Overclocking requires overvolting, which increases power dissipation quite a bit. So, overheating which can lead to roasting the ASICs.

As for overclocking what are you doing? Is it a matter of connecting point A to point B on the board? If so is it in tight quarters? I love DIY, but I suck at soldiering small things that are surrounded by lots of other small things! LOL

I'm cooling my 5 blade setup with a box fan, they stay cool to the touch! lol

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Quote from: sidehack on December 11, 2013, 10:53:19 AM

InfiniteGrim - is it the same blades resetting, or different ones in the bunch?

I've been marking them. So far 3 of 5. I dont want to jinx myself but we are good for 8 hours now. I think it might have been something do with either my one stratum proxy instance running all 5 blades, I'm not sure if each having their own worker ID might be overloading the stratum proxy or what. But it might be the fact that I made their IP's too close. They IP's were

192.168.1.201
192.168.1.202
and so on....

Now they are

192.168.1.211
192.168.1.222
and so on....

Right now my fifth one running straight off of deepbit without a stratum proxy just to see if deepbit is profitable or not, as I'm using Slush's pool right now.

But with the new IP's and only 4 running off of the stratum proxy im having no hard resets.

Theo1355

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Quote from: sidehack on December 11, 2013, 12:40:52 PM

Overclocking requires overvolting, which increases power dissipation quite a bit. So, overheating which can lead to roasting the ASICs.

Gotcha

sidehack

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Overclocking requires overvolting, which increases power dissipation quite a bit. So, overheating which can lead to roasting the ASICs.

Theo1355

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What happens if you overclock too much?

sidehack

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I've found 15GH is hard for most people to keep cool, takes some heatsink improvements and really good fans. What's your price tag?
I overclock them to 14.5GH with next-business-day turnaround and return priority shipping included for 0.085BTC (done about 15 with zero casualties, but if I wreck it I replace it), and DIY kits for 13GH, 14.5GH and 15GH for 0.025BTC. Haven't worked up any V1 blades, but I have one coming in soon to test with so that'll be available soon. Also done general repair/maintenance for a few people.

InfiniteGrim - is it the same blades resetting, or different ones in the bunch?

InfiniteGrim

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What are your guarantees you will not screw up someone's blades?

Also I thought 13GH was the limit on these, or is that V1?

user27

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I have done it for a few friends and now I'm looking at starting a 72 hour V2 blade overclocking service; what's the level of interest for this?

Thanks

edit: forgot to mention that the overclock I have been doing goes to about 15gh per blade; 16gh is doable but risky.

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Quote from: matt4054 on December 10, 2013, 06:42:06 PM

Quote from: InfiniteGrim on December 10, 2013, 06:27:28 PM

So I have had two blades running in my desktop PC. They ran flawlessly. My 3 other blades, backplane, and PSU have finally come in. I have them all hooked up and I am running into an issue. Randomly 1-2 blades will "reset" to factory settings. They will be on Hashing for hours, but for ASIC test setup or whatever the server and worker is.

At first I thought it was my cheap ethernet switch, but that should NOT cause the blades to factory reset. I just switched the position in the slots of the backplane to see if that helps. The blades are not moving either, so I doubt they are getting "loose'.

Any ideas? The power supply is the long thin one that is the "factory default" one I believe. I also have a box fan blowing on the blades 24/7 so they are not overheating.

Thanks!

If you have a multimeter, you should check the voltage of each power lane, they should be 1.06 or 1.2V depending on your clock needs.

Also, the random resets could be caused by a faulty control (Ethernet) board. Try exchanging the control board with a Blade that you know to be OK, and if the problems follows the board, you know where it's coming from.

These are V2 Blades though.

sidehack

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I like the V2s. They're fun to mess with.

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Quote from: sidehack on December 10, 2013, 06:54:51 PM

He's probably running V2 blades, which means "1.06 or 1.2V depending on your clock needs" is irrelevant - 1.05 to 1.06 volts *only* for the single clock speed. Also everything is built on a single board so there is no interchangable ethernet board.

True, if he's got V2 blades. It sucks. That's why I ordered V1 instead of V2's actually Grin

sidehack

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He's probably running V2 blades, which means "1.06 or 1.2V depending on your clock needs" is irrelevant - 1.05 to 1.06 volts *only* for the single clock speed. Also everything is built on a single board so there is no interchangable ethernet board.

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Quote from: InfiniteGrim on December 10, 2013, 06:27:28 PM

So I have had two blades running in my desktop PC. They ran flawlessly. My 3 other blades, backplane, and PSU have finally come in. I have them all hooked up and I am running into an issue. Randomly 1-2 blades will "reset" to factory settings. They will be on Hashing for hours, but for ASIC test setup or whatever the server and worker is.

At first I thought it was my cheap ethernet switch, but that should NOT cause the blades to factory reset. I just switched the position in the slots of the backplane to see if that helps. The blades are not moving either, so I doubt they are getting "loose'.

Any ideas? The power supply is the long thin one that is the "factory default" one I believe. I also have a box fan blowing on the blades 24/7 so they are not overheating.

Thanks!

If you have a multimeter, you should check the voltage of each power lane, they should be 1.06 or 1.2V depending on your clock needs.

Also, the random resets could be caused by a faulty control (Ethernet) board. Try exchanging the control board with a Blade that you know to be OK, and if the problems follows the board, you know where it's coming from.

InfiniteGrim

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So I have had two blades running in my desktop PC. They ran flawlessly. My 3 other blades, backplane, and PSU have finally come in. I have them all hooked up and I am running into an issue. Randomly 1-2 blades will "reset" to factory settings. They will be on Hashing for hours, but for ASIC test setup or whatever the server and worker is.

At first I thought it was my cheap ethernet switch, but that should NOT cause the blades to factory reset. I just switched the position in the slots of the backplane to see if that helps. The blades are not moving either, so I doubt they are getting "loose'.

Any ideas? The power supply is the long thin one that is the "factory default" one I believe. I also have a box fan blowing on the blades 24/7 so they are not overheating.

Thanks!

rozey

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Thanks very much, it works great! From your experience, is it better mining with different pools? I thought it to be logical, having larger exposure- but I'd like to hear what others have to say about it

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sidehack

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You need the -gp option on the stratum proxy, so each one is listening on a different pool.

mining_proxy.exe -o pool1 -p port1 -gp 8332
mining_proxy.exe -o pool2 -p port2 -gp 8333

Configure your pool1 blades to Ports 8332,8332 and the pool2 blades to Ports 8333,8333

I had a setup exactly like that running for a day earlier this week, mining for a friend; two stratum proxies on the same machine pointed to different pools.

rozey

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Hey guys, having some troubles.
I have 3 blades set up. They're all pointed at my computer, which is running slush's stratum proxy. No problems here.

Now, I want to divide them up among different pools.
Trying to connect one blade to BTCguild what I tried is to create a .bat with the instructions provided by Dogie. Still had all the blades pointing to my PC which was running now two different stratums. What ended up happening is that the blades went nuts and all of them stopped mining the moment I launched the second stratum .bat file (launched it while slush's one was active). I ended up restarting all of my blades and configuring them again.

So what I'd like to know is, whats the best way for me to achieve my goal of having each blade mine in a different pool?

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Quote from: Theo1355 on December 09, 2013, 11:27:34 AM

Quote from: pluMmet on December 09, 2013, 11:17:09 AM

okay I got it thx

9337,9337
gbt.mining.eligius.st, gbt.mining.eligius.st

Great! I left the detailed instructions up for someone else...

Yep, all friends here

Theo1355

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Quote from: pluMmet on December 09, 2013, 11:17:09 AM

okay I got it thx

9337,9337
gbt.mining.eligius.st, gbt.mining.eligius.st

Great! I left the detailed instructions up for someone else...

Theo1355

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Quote from: pluMmet on December 09, 2013, 11:09:55 AM

Quote from: Theo1355 on December 09, 2013, 02:34:07 AM

Problem solved! Here's what I did:

Instead of using getwork, I used the gbt server and port on eligius. For some reason I just can't get getwork to work any more. Input these, delete the cookies from the previous config and restart. I'll update with my hashrates tomorrow. Currently (a few minutes after startup I'm doing 20.4 gh/s).

Thanks to all who contributed. This successfully proves the hypothesis that n00bs can, indeed, learn Wink

Could you be very specific please...

What did you type into which fields?

Sure.

IPs: 192.168.1.200 (.201 for the second blade)
Mask: default
Gateway: default
WEB port: 8000
Primary and secondary DNS: default
Ports: 9337,9337
Server addresses: gbt.mining.eligius.st,gbt.mining.eligius.st
user:pass:1K*my address*Q23:pwd,1K*my address*Q23:pwd

Hope this helps! I reset both of mine to fac default, but I don't think I need to do that.

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