Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Cube Setup [HD] - page 52. (Read 187363 times)

Tried different PSUs from 500-650-700 Watt

Tried brand new Cougar Power X 700 Watt. Id does not even start with this one. Just the fan turns shortly then off.



I now ordered a new one: Corsair CX750

Hope this will work.

Hi Shaker242, I read through your post but my problem is not only slow mining it simply does reboot all the time. After 2 min. reboot. Actually you do not tell how you solved the problem.

The LED stays red on some powersupply. On the other it goes off but also after 2 min restart it connects to my windows binary proxy. And also I tried to compile the slush proxy on ubuntu which connects now the same way, but no luck getting this brick to mine.

You've come to the right thread... I had issues too, my saga started at post #725.  However, I'd recommend going through the thread completely to rule out as much as you can. (not sure from your message if you have yet or not)

Yes, see post #805 https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4378157

... it also appears that your directing to two different pools - did you try proxy2.bat using stratum.bitcoin.cz as well, but with a --getwork-port of 8331 so that each cube would connect to a different proxy port?

That's what I've been doing all along... Sorry if that was unclear.  A new VM for each cube just sounds like it would eat up waaay too much RAM.



Here's an example.

proxy1.bat: proxy2.bat: Then in your cube config page, set the ports to 8332,8331


The various difficulty settings are simply a way to control the bandwidth used by limiting the number of shares submitted.  Lower difficulty shares means a more accurate hashrate reported by the pool, vs higher difficulty shares means less bandwidth but higher variance.

has anyone evaluated running multiple instances of slush's proxy but on different ports... like the --gp 8332, --gp 8333 etc?

I'm after some advise on how I can get my cube to successfully mine on two separate pools, as in the primary/backup function, so if one looses connectivity or times out for any reason, it switches to the other pool.

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Also what does diff 64, 128 and 256 mean?

mining_proxy.exe --host stratum.bitcoin.cz --port 3333 --getwork-port 8332 --stratum-port 3333

mining_proxy.exe --host stratum.btcguild.com --port 3333 --getwork-port 8331 --stratum-port 3332

I've got my block errupter, set my Mining Proxy. However the Problem is the device restarts every 2 min. I geht very lo Hashrate of 200mhs or so...i trief different power supplies but no Luck.

All cards are correctly installed and show in the miner config with "  o "

The problem with running multiple cubes through a single instance of slush's proxy isn't bandwidth, or even CPU time necessarily (unless you're running it on a raspberry pi).  It's when you have the proxy pointed to a pool with vardiff (like slush's pool) and each worker gets assigned a different share difficulty.  This happens even if each worker has the same hashing power.  The proxy gets confused by different share difficulties per worker (software bug) and doesn't submit any shares with a difficulty lower than the difficulty of the worker with the highest share difficulty assigned by the pool, even if that lower difficulty share is valid for that particular worker.  This may seem like a corner case, but it most definitely results in lost/unsubmitted shares, which directly affects your worker hashrate and profits.  twib2 reported a 5% increase in total hashrate when switching 5 cubes from a single proxy to a proxy for each cube.

I've seen a couple posts about stratum proxies only being used for 1 to 2 cubes, but after monitoring my slush proxy while a single cube is running at 31Ghash/s... I'm seeing a very small load, thus one could reason that I should be able to run a lot more cubes through it.  I just ordered a couple more, so when they get in... I'll update this with the proxies performance.  Based on the numbers I'm seeing, there is no reason the proxies couldn't handle quite a few cubes.  

* I am switching everything over from monitoring on SSH to SNMP; so please ignore the "?" on physical memory... the SSH Meminfo 3 shows that only 25% of 1GB is being utilized currently.  Load average is < 1, CPU utilization is only 8% and network traffic is only 261kbits/sec (that is 0.03 MB).

Corsair 850W

All three of them just shut off after a couple seconds. Is there anything else I can try before buying another PSU? I'm kind of tired of buying new PSUs for this thing.

Evening All,

I'm after some advise on how I can get my cube to successfully mine on two separate pools, as in the primary/backup function, so if one looses connectivity or times out for any reason, it switches to the other pool.

I am currently mining on Slush's pool and another pool using a windows 7 64bit laptop as a proxy machine and am using mining_proxy.exe in order to do so, if I want to mine on the other pool I just open up the command prompt, navigate to the mining proxy directory and execute the following command
mining_proxy.exe -o (host) -p (port)

My cube is setup with the standard settings with the ports being 8332, 8332, pool address being the IP address of my proxy machine and the username and password of my pool worker credentials.

I have tried to use cgminer and bfg miner on numerous occasions but have been unsuccessful in making them work for me.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest cgminer 3.90 but after entering my pool address:port and leaving the username and password blank and hitting enter, the program would encounter a problem and shutdown, I tried again but this time I populated the username and password fields but I encountered the same problem.

bfg miner seems to get me to a page where I can start tinkering with some settings but always says that no devices were found, once I've managed to get it connected to a pool I think and it said something along the lines of "pool is hiding blocks", or something along those lines.

So now, as proxy miner seems to be the only one working for me, is their any way for me to set it up to achieve my purpose?

Also what does diff 64, 128 and 256 mean? The other pool that I am on offers me various different ports to choose from with the options of diff 64, 128 or 256.

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

EDIT: Okay, seems to be working, only thing is the --help option didn't work out, window just opened then closed immediately when I did that. I added the quiet switch, seems to cut down the messaging. Thanks again.

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-herener