Topic: How to use ASICMiner Block Erupters with CGMiner on Windows 7 (Read 87354 times)

is it normal to only be able to run 14 asic saphires on cgminer if I put in one more 15 then it just shuts off and goes blank?

i went with the last decision:P moved them over to my linux rig.

Unplug them all. Plug only one in and change the driver to winusb then remove it. Then reboot, start cgminer and plug them in one by one. Or install linux.

Can anyone help me?, im having issues with getting this running
when i follow the first tutorial with cgminer 3.1.1 and setting

cgminer-nogpu.exe -o xxx-u xx -p x --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S \\.\COM79 -S \\.\COM80

It works like a charm, until i go beyond 9 block erupters (have 67 of em...), if i go beyond cgminer either crashes or i get error finding devices.

When i try to follow tutorial two with 3.4.2 (tried 3.4.2 and others up to 3.8.5) i install that other driver and everything seems fine in control panel,
Restart the machine, but i cant for the love of god get it to register any devices. just get no devices detected, waiting for usb hotplug

if i try to manually unplug/replug when cgminer is running i get:
err -12 you need to install a winusb driver for -amu device
icarus detected: failed to initialise

Which suggest that that zadig didnt work, but i checked and redid it several times. they do not show up as com but as
CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller.

I tried making a bat file with the url etc but it just ignores it.

Command line options.  Did you see my main post here?  It has details on how to make a configuration file.  You shouldn't have to type in a URL.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-use-asicminer-block-erupters-with-cgminer-on-windows-7-220450

M

i don't get any options - I've tried pressing S for settings, it just goes blank for a moment then goes back to the list of devices. The only letter that does anything is the q to quit.

Well if anyone knows who the writers are and they are members here could someone point one of them to me so I can discuss how to make a working bat file because I seem to be the unluckiest person ever to bitcoin.

Most of the time the software doesn't even work. It just goes to the bit where it is supposed to ask for the url and doesn't do anything. 9 times out of 10 when it DOES actually ask for the details it fails to connect to the pool.

I believe there are options to tell cgminer only to use certain devices.  Maybe you should run one instance of cgminer for the bitfury and bfgminer for everything else?  Or maybe an older version of cgminer for the erupters (3.1.1 was very stable, just needed the USB to UART driver as well) and the newest for bitfury?

Remember the software is free.  The authors help out of their own goodness.  Those that help are also doing it in the community spirit.

M

Hi can someone tell me what to do about mine.

I currently have 4 Bitfury Red Fury usb miners and 1 Bitfury Blue Fury + 9 block erupters.

I am using cgminer 3.8.2 or 3.8.3 (when I can get the program to work - it seems to hate USB hubs and constantly fails at connecting to the bitminter pool)

I keep finding that numerous erupters fail.

Now this is going to become a major problem because at the moment I waiting for another Blue Fury which from the look of it will end up being a Nano Fury while the 2 Nano Furies I ordered from someone else look like they'll be non-existent.

The thing is is that I'm going to be buying a 20 port hub, 20 erupters and 2 Jalapeno units from a friend of mine. He plans on moving up whereas this will be all I ever own.

I would like to get it all working on cgminer otherwise it means re-formatting my bitcoin rig so that I can go back to the silas labs driver.  CGminer only seems to work best with the bitfury sticks whereas BFGminer seems best with everything else.  I would like to be able to leave it mining and not find that multiple erupters have gone zombie on me.

I've tried making a bat file and I can't get them to work. I don't know what the heck is wrong with CGminer but it just sits there blinking that underscore at me.  It won't ask for the url, username or password.  If I run a batfile with those typed in it still doesn't do anything.

Starting to get really, really sick of it. There is no proper help and to be honest I feel that I should not have to manually enter things into a bat file when it is for something that should be coded into the program itself.

Thanks guys, I will give that a try.

Fix your USB hub power issues, rather than worrying about software.

Use this binary till it's improved in the next version:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer-undead.exe

EDIT: But ideally avoiding them failing in the first place is the correct solution.

What is the correct way to reset cgminer to re-detect all attached AMU's when they go sick, dead or zombie?

Currently I have to unplug and re-plug in the power or usb hub to get them to be recognized again, every 6 hours or so.

Info:
Win 7 N Ultimate
39 USB Eruptors on Anker 9+1 powered hubs.
cgminer-nogpu 3.6.4

Should I switch to cgminer 3.8.x?

CGMINER 3.8.1

I don't know if it is right, but it is working for me.

I made this line of code:


--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -s 0002 -s PORT#


The PORT# you get going on:

CONTROL PANEL > DEVICE MANAGER > UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS

There will be a list of all ASIC on the HUB (CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller), click PROPERTIES and get the port number: "Port_#0002.Hub_#0006"

If you have like 5 ASIC, it will be some like this:


--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -s 0002 -s 0003 -s 0004 -s 0005 -s 0006




I hope I have helped in some way, if the code isn't right, please reply

working good.

which USB hub would u suggest?

BTW, I'm using cgminer-nogpu 3.6.6 on a win8.1x64 box with 36 erupters with no problems.  I don't know why it works for some people and not others.

M

They're USB 3 hubs plugged into a USB 2 port. Apparently I had to not only REBOOT. But I also had to unplug and re-plug the entire Hub assembly....why I would need to do that after rebooting is beyond me. Seeing as nothing else was done and I rebooted just for shits 'n giggles.

Now CGminer-nogpu sees them


...and promptly crashes after running them for 3secs.

WTF is wrong now....

EDIT:

Oh and unless someone can tell me how the hell to run 'cgminer.exe' with a no GPU flag I won't bother. It causes my Nvidia Drivers to crash.


EDIT #2:

But MultiMiner uses CGminer 3.6.6 just fine...

I get this when I have my erupters plugged into a blue USB 3.0 port.  have any 2.0 ports to plug them into?

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Whelp,

3.6.6

And I'm staring 18 "CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller" 's in Windows 8.1's Device Manager.

And "No devices detected!" in CGminer.  

I appreciate your efforts.  I'd help test if I had the problem.  The rig in the basement with these works fine with 3.6.4+.  The fans are too noisy to run them up here on the machine that regularly has the problems.

M