[GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher - page 48.

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Quote from: SummersideGuy on March 16, 2014, 12:12:08 PM

I currently have Sha at 750 ant scrypt at 850.

I think one chip can't work on two different freq.
As I remember for Scrypt core used part of BTC core, so maybe these two cores can't work on different freqs.
(but not sure)
Maybe for whole chip used first BTC freq. and second is ignored..

Can somebody confirm is it true or not ?

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 12:27:26 PM

Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 12:09:26 PM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:37:43 AM

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

You know I'm going to ask if you can try a retail power supply right?

You don't get any specific errors or indicators in your even viewer?

Right, you just had to! Cheesy

Believe me, there is nothing wrong with my psu. It is a commercial grade unit. But, I forgive you. Grin

Nope, no specific indicators or errors. Just quits. Not sure why, obviously. I've tried reducing FIFO's, which seemed to help and it did not adversely effect hashing rates at all. My 6 miners are averaging over 2200 KHs, server side.
I have disabled all power saving options so nothing gets poled or turned off by accident.
It's weird that all 6 of them quit outputting completed work at the same time.
Indicates USB comm port failure at the hub's input from the PC's USB port.
I'm getting tired of farting around with it.

I'd love to have a macro that detects and resets the comm ports any time this happens.
Any suggestions?

I do not believe converting over to another program like cgminer or bfgminer will make any difference, based on everything I've been reading about them.
It's a bug that every user has no matter the time between resterts. It's a chronic problem!

Wolfey2014

Schedule a reboot every hour just like asiabtc did with their v2 controller firmware

Seriously though I wonder if it is a windows issue of some sort with the driver and the gridseeds?

I won't have my next batch until mid-week where I can use the same platform for testing.

You could http://www.amazon.com/WeMo-Electronics-Anywhere-Automation-Smartphones/dp/B00EOEDJ9W/ref=pd_sim_e_13?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BR63Q98NFM7F1D1QRBN autorestart the power supply when they fail. You'd have to build your macro though. If I didn't slander someone earlier for saying to convert to raspi I might say the same thing

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Quote from: daemonfox on March 16, 2014, 12:19:18 PM

Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 12:09:26 PM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:37:43 AM

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

You know I'm going to ask if you can try a retail power supply right?

You don't get any specific errors or indicators in your even viewer?

I am using the power brick, with mine plugged directly into my PC USB 2.0 and I also suffer these same hang ups for no reason... oddly enough never during the day while I am at this PC... only while I sleep. I feel your pain Wolfey.

I am on Win 7 Ult 64 using cgminer for Sha and cpuminer to dual mine scrypt.

That's two win7x64 with the same issue, anyone else?

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Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 12:09:26 PM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:37:43 AM

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

You know I'm going to ask if you can try a retail power supply right?

You don't get any specific errors or indicators in your even viewer?

Right, you just had to! Cheesy

Believe me, there is nothing wrong with my psu. It is a commercial grade unit. But, I forgive you. Grin

Nope, no specific indicators or errors. Just quits. Not sure why, obviously. I've tried reducing FIFO's, which seemed to help and it did not adversely effect hashing rates at all. My 6 miners are averaging over 2200 KHs, server side.
I have disabled all power saving options so nothing gets poled or turned off by accident.
It's weird that all 6 of them quit outputting completed work at the same time.
Indicates USB comm port failure at the hub's input from the PC's USB port.
I'm getting tired of farting around with it.

I'd love to have a macro that detects and resets the comm ports any time this happens.
Any suggestions?

I do not believe converting over to another program like cgminer or bfgminer will make any difference, based on everything I've been reading about them.
It's a bug that every user has no matter the time between resterts. It's a chronic problem!

Wolfey2014

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Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 12:09:26 PM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:37:43 AM

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

You know I'm going to ask if you can try a retail power supply right?

You don't get any specific errors or indicators in your even viewer?

I am using the power brick, with mine plugged directly into my PC USB 2.0 and I also suffer these same hang ups for no reason... oddly enough never during the day while I am at this PC... only while I sleep. I feel your pain Wolfey.

I am on Win 7 Ult 64 using cgminer for Sha and cpuminer to dual mine scrypt.

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OK so I tried dual mining at 850mhz on both sha and scrypt and I start to get a ton of red noonce on the scrypt, If I keep scrypt at 850 and reduce Sha to 800 or less the red noonce go away. So I currently have Sha at 750 ant scrypt at 850. I am getting 6GH/s sha and 360kh/s Scrypt. I feel this works best for me.

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:37:43 AM

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

You know I'm going to ask if you can try a retail power supply right?

You don't get any specific errors or indicators in your even viewer?

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Quote from: usao on March 16, 2014, 12:02:37 PM

Quote from: synapses11 on March 16, 2014, 11:29:10 AM

I was wondering if anyone can give me a pointer. I have 4 gpus and 2 gridseeds. I run 2 seperate instances of cgminer for them one for gpus and obviously one for the gridseeds. I got annoyed about this so I decided to compile cgminer with gridseed and gpu support. If I run my compiled cgminer without the gridseeds, everything is fine the gpus mine perfectly, or vice versa the gridseeds mine fine on it. However when I try to have all devices mine through it. The GPUS get tons of HW errors and the gridseeds mine fine. I put the same clock settings and everything as I normally would. Somehow cgminer doesnt like having them all together. Is there something I need to put in my conf file or is it simply not possible to run the gridseeds and gpus under one instance of cgminer. Any help is appreciated.

I got a set of GS yesterday. I tried to plug them into the USB hub then into a Windows box running cgminer.
However, cgminer doesn't see these GS devices. Can someone point me to whatever thread talks about how to get cgminer to recognize the GS devices?
Thanks

It's on the first page under the windows section. You need to change the driver for the gridseed.

I should be taking new screenshots next week for that section as well.

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Quote from: ghur on March 16, 2014, 10:38:34 AM

I've tried searching this, but I couldn't quite find this on my own.

What are the power requirements from the USB hub in single mode?
Would a powered USB hub with 500mA per port suffice?

So long as the overall hub power is greater than 100mA per port it shouldn't be an issue per the gridseed spec sheet.

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Quote from: synapses11 on March 16, 2014, 11:29:10 AM

I was wondering if anyone can give me a pointer. I have 4 gpus and 2 gridseeds. I run 2 seperate instances of cgminer for them one for gpus and obviously one for the gridseeds. I got annoyed about this so I decided to compile cgminer with gridseed and gpu support. If I run my compiled cgminer without the gridseeds, everything is fine the gpus mine perfectly, or vice versa the gridseeds mine fine on it. However when I try to have all devices mine through it. The GPUS get tons of HW errors and the gridseeds mine fine. I put the same clock settings and everything as I normally would. Somehow cgminer doesnt like having them all together. Is there something I need to put in my conf file or is it simply not possible to run the gridseeds and gpus under one instance of cgminer. Any help is appreciated.

I got a set of GS yesterday. I tried to plug them into the USB hub then into a Windows box running cgminer.
However, cgminer doesn't see these GS devices. Can someone point me to whatever thread talks about how to get cgminer to recognize the GS devices?
Thanks

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I was wondering if anyone can give me a pointer. I have 4 gpus and 2 gridseeds. I run 2 seperate instances of cgminer for them one for gpus and obviously one for the gridseeds. I got annoyed about this so I decided to compile cgminer with gridseed and gpu support. If I run my compiled cgminer without the gridseeds, everything is fine the gpus mine perfectly, or vice versa the gridseeds mine fine on it. However when I try to have all devices mine through it. The GPUS get tons of HW errors and the gridseeds mine fine. I put the same clock settings and everything as I normally would. Somehow cgminer doesnt like having them all together. Is there something I need to put in my conf file or is it simply not possible to run the gridseeds and gpus under one instance of cgminer. Any help is appreciated.

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I've tried searching this, but I couldn't quite find this on my own.

What are the power requirements from the USB hub in single mode?
Would a powered USB hub with 500mA per port suffice?

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Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:30:18 AM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:20:31 AM

Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:06:14 AM

Wolfey,

What Platform are using to control the units?

I don't touch my gridseeds unless someone is leasing and asks for a change to be made. I have 1 of mine and 2 customer units leased out on leaserig as well with no complaints.

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

Quote from: CoinHoarder on March 16, 2014, 10:26:37 AM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:20:31 AM

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

Ah, I see you're already on a host computer. Disregard my last message.

I suggest you mess around with trying to cgminer to work, maybe that will solve your problems.

Does anyone else run these on windows with cpuminer that can vouch for stability?

I'm thinking you are using a linux based system CoinHoarder?

Wolfey what is your HUB and Power Supply?

The PSU is my own home made 40 Amp rectified and regulated 13.8VDC power supply. Runs flawlessly and has full protections incorporated as well.

HUB is a 13 port Inland USB 2.0 480Mbps unit powered by 2.5 Amp switching wall wart.

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Quote from: CoinHoarder on March 16, 2014, 10:21:11 AM

Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:17:57 AM

Quote from: Cablez on March 15, 2014, 12:12:39 PM

I am not trying to dissuade anyone from making their own cables or selling to others if that is is your goal. But please, please overbuild them at a minimum. I have been doing this for two years now with many hundreds of cables in the wild on many different platforms. Just follow that small bit of advice for safety sake. Know what wire gauges and connectors you are using and what they are capable of and please afford yourself 10-20% headroom just in case.

With the sizes of the farms I am seeing, fire is a real concern. Be safe and happy mining.

Hey cablez,

Can you give some specific advice on wire gauges so I can add it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5511232

He shows that he is going to use 18 AWG here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5524959

Thank You.

What are you using for power solutions in your farm?

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:20:31 AM

Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:06:14 AM

Wolfey,

What Platform are using to control the units?

I don't touch my gridseeds unless someone is leasing and asks for a change to be made. I have 1 of mine and 2 customer units leased out on leaserig as well with no complaints.

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

Quote from: CoinHoarder on March 16, 2014, 10:26:37 AM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:20:31 AM

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

Ah, I see you're already on a host computer. Disregard my last message.

I suggest you mess around with trying to cgminer to work, maybe that will solve your problems.

Does anyone else run these on windows with cpuminer that can vouch for stability?

I'm thinking you are using a linux based system CoinHoarder?

Wolfey what is your HUB and Power Supply?

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:20:31 AM

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

Ah, I see you're already on a host computer. Disregard my last message.

I suggest you mess around with trying to cgminer to work, maybe that will solve your problems.

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Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:17:57 AM

Quote from: Cablez on March 15, 2014, 12:12:39 PM

I am not trying to dissuade anyone from making their own cables or selling to others if that is is your goal. But please, please overbuild them at a minimum. I have been doing this for two years now with many hundreds of cables in the wild on many different platforms. Just follow that small bit of advice for safety sake. Know what wire gauges and connectors you are using and what they are capable of and please afford yourself 10-20% headroom just in case.

With the sizes of the farms I am seeing, fire is a real concern. Be safe and happy mining.

Hey cablez,

Can you give some specific advice on wire gauges so I can add it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5511232

He shows that he is going to use 18 AWG here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5524959

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Quote from: miaviator on March 16, 2014, 10:06:14 AM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:00:42 AM

My 6 GS5's ran for 30+ hours this time before they stopped mining. I'm using cpuminer - Scrypt only - version.

After chasing up this problem and trying to solve it over the last few weeks, I've tried virtually everything short of re-programing the firmware on my miners, which I cannot do - obviously.

Darn it!!!! Right after I went to sleep, it takes a piss! AAarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

I wonder if GridSeed engineers left this but in their miners' firmware?

Has anyone been running their GridSeed Farm 24/7 stably WITHOUT ANY INTERVENTION WHATSOEVER?

IF so, please tell me what your configuration is so WE can all set these things and not have to worry about this elusive little bug!!!? Huh

Has anyone come up with a macro to take care of detecting the hault then restarting each miner in cpuminer?
All I need is for it to monitor the window of each miner and when it stops producing yay's for say, 3 or so minutes, it stops the program without closing the window, resets the port, then restarts each miner 5 seconds apart.

Thanks
Wolfey2014

Wolfey,

What Platform are using to control the units?

I don't touch my gridseeds unless someone is leasing and asks for a change to be made. I have 1 of mine and 2 customer units leased out on leaserig as well with no complaints.

I'm running cpuminer - Scrypt only version, on Windows 7.
How may GS5's are you running? No problems? No failures?

CoinHoarder

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 16, 2014, 10:00:42 AM

My 6 GS5's ran for 30+ hours this time before they stopped mining. I'm using cpuminer - Scrypt only - version.

After chasing up this problem and trying to solve it over the last few weeks, I've tried virtually everything short of re-programing the firmware on my miners, which I cannot do - obviously.

Darn it!!!! Right after I went to sleep, it takes a piss! AAarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

I wonder if GridSeed engineers left this but in their miners' firmware?

Has anyone been running their GridSeed Farm 24/7 stably WITHOUT ANY INTERVENTION WHATSOEVER?

IF so, please tell me what your configuration is so WE can all set these things and not have to worry about this elusive little bug!!!? Huh

Has anyone come up with a macro to take care of detecting the hault then restarting each miner in cpuminer?
All I need is for it to monitor the window of each miner and when it stops producing yay's for say, 3 or so minutes, it stops the program without closing the window, resets the port, then restarts each miner 5 seconds apart.

Thanks
Wolfey2014

Ditch the controller and use a Windows or Linux box, optimally a raspberry pi.

I think you'll see most of your problems disappear... just a hunch though.

Good luck!

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Quote from: Cablez on March 15, 2014, 12:12:39 PM

I am not trying to dissuade anyone from making their own cables or selling to others if that is is your goal. But please, please overbuild them at a minimum. I have been doing this for two years now with many hundreds of cables in the wild on many different platforms. Just follow that small bit of advice for safety sake. Know what wire gauges and connectors you are using and what they are capable of and please afford yourself 10-20% headroom just in case.

With the sizes of the farms I am seeing, fire is a real concern. Be safe and happy mining.

Hey cablez,

Can you give some specific advice on wire gauges so I can add it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5511232

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