Topic: New Official AMT Thread - page 125. (Read 149454 times)

All right,  so from what you have posted, AMT now has a Technobit solution that has two PCI-E power connectors.

Finally some sanity in what you are doing.  AMT should have taken the Technobit route a long time ago.

Anyway,  what do customers who bought the 1.2 THs systems that do not hash expect to receive now?

Do we all expect to receive a 2.4 THs?   Should you communicate this development? 

It won't. It will require some modification and addition of AMT's scripts. That said upgrading cgminer on the existing distro is certainly possible. I got a pretty good handle on the tools. The bitmine driver also get some upgrades which might benefit.

Also @AMT I think I may have figured out why the cards are dying but you can bring them back to life at your plant.....its the i2cdetect. FYI running that tool with certain parameters based on what I saw can actually cause firmware issues on the cards themselves. It can corrupt it which might explain why so many cards are dying. I dont know how to bring mine back to life (I have 5 dead cards) so this could be an issue. Might want to look into that side of it. The i2c piece can be very dangerous on firmware. There should be some sort of hook or shim in between to keep the low level access from potentially frying the cards. I have one confirmed dead card burned out. This was due to the default settings and it prevents the whole system from coming up. The other 4 cards however COULD work. I have one working miner at this point out of 2. I can provide you more details on what I found if this is something that can be documented and fixed. I think for the benefit of existing customers who are struggling.

I went through every bit of custom code on the distro and read through and saw these things that jumped out at me. What I didn't know i looked up and realized what could be the problem. The i2cdetect parameters can be very dangerous to run and can corrupt the running of the cards. That said if there is a way to "revive" them from a user standpoint I am all open for trying it out before I have to send those cards back.

Hey Loshia,

So do ours.

We're not gone, nor moving out right away. We're not running away with anyone's payment either. We've said numerous times that we're working on a upgrade/refund options for all of our clients, as such it requires a complete audit of the company's finances (needed for discovery during the litigation's investigative process anyway) and we're also restructuring of our current business model all together, gearing up to offer hosting as well hardware soon.

We have also been looking at a more adequate facility in Jenkintown and will probably be moving there within the next month. As we have subcontracted SMD services we've also used their facilities as well as other temporary rented facilities for assembly. We feel it's smarter to take a location where assembly and administrative operations can coexist and we're in the process of setting that up now. Also, due to numerous calls from random people asking if we are legitimate, if we exist, if we're a scam, and calls basically bothering the crap out of our neighbors, our landlord has asked to find another place of operations as well. So again thanks to all the wonderful investigative souls on this thread that helped facilitate that one.

Would you also be able to verify if the new Bitmine firmware will work?  The Bitmine stuff can be downloaded from here:

http://bitmine.ch/?page_id=5483

If we can get the daughter board from Bitmine and a back plane, then it may be possible to construct two servers with 2 or 3 boards.

The AMT raspis are actually stock RasPI's. I already own an identical one I was doing some other work on. I am uploading the default AMT image up in the event its needed. I will post a link when its done. And a small readme on what to use to load it on an SDcard if you are not familar with the process. Its dead simple but still worth documenting.

The good news is a raspi is an off the shelf item you can get on your own for 45 bucks. And the SDCard should still be good. Hopefully that wont be an issue. I can post the default AMT image if needed.

+1 to Bitmine.ch for that!
If that appears to be a real RasPi, think you said you have another around right? Pull the SD card from the dead one and use it in a working Pi.

In fact, first use AMT's SD card in your Pi all by itself using 5v power fed through the micro USB - nothing else attached (aside from monitor/keyboard of course) and see what it does.

Finally got my backplane....

but it was Bitmine who shipped it all the way from Switzerland!

So looks you can bank on Bitmine to 'semi-support' the product.

Still can't test my system because it looks like my raspi got fried.

And have ya looked at the enlarged pics of the boards layout Technobit is using? Massive more cooling on the chip side vs lil' stick-on chipsinks made easier by the CORRECT cluster placement of the asic's, much better core power VR layout as well not to mention using 2 pcie power connectors per/board vs only 1 (easier to divvy up the PSU outputs). Even are using what appeares to be Bergquist Blue thermal filler putty to suck out all the heat possible from the chip body http://www.bergquistcompany.com/thermal_materials/gap_filler/gap-filler-3500S35_properties.htm

Overall a very superior power/thermal layout. Looks very nice and per 'my spec' iff'n I was to do it. Icing on the cake would be if the board was Tlam vs FR4 fiberglass

Have you looked at QT's Help>Command-line options?
Huge list of info there.

THanks I am going to reach out and see what can be done. While it adds more expense at least we have a chance at getting working hardware with documentation and support behind it.

any one got any contact with amt have they picked up any packages we sent back ?? I have emailed them serveral times a day no response . I even emailed them like if i wanted to buy a miner and also no response .. .. ? Are they still operating ...  I 'll ask fedex to send the boards back if thats the case at least the chips are worth something if they work ..

thanks i will try this.

it didnt work the miner just hangs. no idea how to make the miner seek the work.

That is because people now have Scrypt based ASIC miners.

GPUs are essentially now obsolete in the Litecoin space.

I have several GPUs and have them turned off for more than a month now.  Just not worth it!

You have to set the config file for the wallet you want to mine to, with those settings.

When you install a wallet, and run it to get "caught-up"... after it has caught-up, you need to locate the folder where the "wallet.dat" file is, and create an appropriate config file, which will not be created for you. (Wallets are setup, by default, to listen on a specific port-number, I assume on the loopback IP of 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0)

For example... If you mined BITCOIN solo...

The folder containing the wallet.dat on windows 7 would be here...
"C:\Users\*YourLoginName*\AppData\Roaming\bitcoin\"

In that folder, you need to make a new file (text file), that you save as "bitcoin.conf" (this changes per wallet, but you can force any name you want, from launch-switches for the wallet)

In that file, you need settings like this...

You appropriately launch the miner, with similar settings for NAME and PASS.

If you wallet is not connecting, it may not be "using" the configuration file. You create a shortcut on your desktop to the wallet, and change the "TARGET", to look like this...

It is the end-part that you add "-conf=bitcoin.conf", the rest should already be there. That tells the wallet to launch with that conf file.

You can make all your wallets launch with similar settings... However, you can not launch more than one wallet at a time, because it will have conflicts listening to the same port-numbers. To mine another coin, you just shut-down your miner, shut down the wallet, then launch another wallet, and then fire-up the miners again. (You must shut-down the miners first, or the wallet will not actually shut-down, it will stay stuck running invisibly in the background. You would have to use TASKMANAGER "CTRL + ALT + DEL", to kill the other wallet, before firing-up a new wallet.)

If you want to use many wallets, having them all open at once, they all have to have a unique port-number. Then you can just launch a BAT file to connect to the different wallets, which is just changing the port-number that the miner points to. (That is how a multi-pool works, or a "crypto-switcher". It just changes the port-forward-number to the "most valuable coin of the minute".)

When it comes to actually solo-mining for "long term gains"... You want to sort-of ignore the "price now", as you will never get that price "later". You want to focus on the DIFFICULTY. You want a coin that has low difficulty, so low, that when you mine it, you force the price higher just by mining it. that is called "choking the rewards". Just prior to that, you actually want to buy a bunch of cheap coins... Then, mine it steady for at-least a month or two, which should cause the price to rise. If not, be patient, someone will pump it for you. You have to remember, by you raising the diff, you are making those other guys earn less coins per day, so they HAVE to ask for higher prices, eventually. But that only works if you stay steady on the coin. If you leave, they are back to earning more coins that can be sold cheaper. That is why pool-hopping programs all fail. They are the reason they never actually get the value they THINK they are mining for. Because, in the future, they just end-up getting less, from leaving the coin back in the hands of those who cashed-out, or because they cashed-out, driving the value down and the diff up, which caused the steady miners to leave.

That is why BTC constantly rises, because diff constantly rises. It does not usually go down at all. This is what keeps the "floor" higher and higher and the peaks higher and higher, exponentially by a factor of 10. (Thus the next linear-exponential peak is $10,000/BTC, but it will fall short of that target. Because in reality, it is actually going down in value. Thus it will hit only about $8,000 to $6,000, for a loss of $2/$4-thousand on this next projected high.)

You really have to look at a logarithmic chart, from the earliest date, to see that this low of $450-$350 is "normal", and to see the next "peak", which had NOTHING to do with any news or even with GOX. BTC is as normal as it has been since the day it started. Predictable and damn near linear in habit.

NOTE: This chart should come-up as LOG scale... But you may have to "refresh" once it loads. Seems to fall-back to linear-scale for some reason.
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#tgTzm1g10zm2g25zvzl

What are you looking at? That is the whole history of BitStamp's USD value. (If you don't see a pattern there, you really need to stop investing. A bitcoin year is not the same as a physical year. It is a little shorter. The next HIKE to the peak of about $10,000-$6,000 should start within a few weeks, take about a month to get there, and then settle back down to a smaller second long peak/hump of about $4,000, and then a third wave of $1200-$800, before the next years peak of $40,000/BTC begins. Falling way short of the projected $100,000/BTC mark. Though, it could just as well hit $12,000 this season, and $150,000/BTC the following season. It depends how much more interest grown in BTC. In any event, we have about 6 more seasons before BTC finally reaches a "I'm not paying that much for a BTC", plateau of stable rise. It will just not rise as high in those years, but also not fall as low as before, in those years. But that is a long way away.)

What order number are you at right now?
Is it really shipping?
I'm order 789 and 880 and i have not received anything yet.
Please provide more information on where are you at on shipping, you cannot claim your units have been shipping without a hard proof. Empty statements once again.

There is probably some equilibrium point in the very near future where you can't create new hardware that is orders of magnitued faster than anyone else.  We are near that point.   Spondoolies is showing that they can take 40nm based hardware and run it competively compared to 28nm hardware.   Let extrapolate that Spondoolies takes their hardware down to 20nm, how much faster will these be?

The scenario though will mirror the time when Litecoin was at $2-3,   that is, you could not get hardware better than AMD Radeon GPUs. 

Looking from this perspective, it may be wise in the next 2-3 months to invest in state of the art hardware with the expectation of selling the hardware when BTC prices jump.   Of course, a better investment would be to stick to BTC.  When LTC jumped from $2 to $50 the prices of hardware doubled.   So you trade off a 2000% gain for one with a 100% gain.  Mining is just a horrible business.

And the internet officially can make a meme out of just about anything......lol nice