Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 1148. (Read 3049528 times)

Same here. Not a single problem with the firmware from the start. Only did incremental firmware upgrade with this method(except switching from 0.97 to 0.96:D), but nothing fancy. Stable as a rock!

Two firmware updates for me so far. Didn't do that, bot even half of it. Not had a problem

1. DL the update
2. On the KNC miner interface click update and select that download and apply it.
3. Click restart cg miner in the KNC interface.

Nothng else at all. Checked it after in Putty, but all was fine. lol

Exactly, so effectively as you are not running the proper reboot command it might not be updating the firmware, probably a good thing in your case, you are just getting the updated miner.

Hmm.. I think I might try it

Sorry guys but I'm not a linux expert....

There's a link after the upgrade proces "click to reboot"

I've tried it a few times but I'm alwas had bad hasrates. So after the upgrade I don't click it just shut down the power then turn it back on...

D'Oh!  Thanks - that was it!  (I just pressed Ctrl-Refresh and it updated)

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I'm trying Firmware 0.98.1

Just to check, after installing it the Upgrade page still reports:
Current firmware revision: 0.98

Did they forget to change the version number reported?  Or did I not install it right?

I think bertmod just killed my .98.1 sigh...

from 546 to 576GH/s with 0.98.1 

Yes I would have thought if you don't reboot after the firmware upgrade then the firmware isn't actually installed, yes maybe cgminer gets updated but nothing else.

do you mean just executing reboot cmd?

when u click reboot on the web interface reboot.safe will be executed instead


i really don't know which kind of settings i2cset cmds are performing, but my gut says that they should be useful, what do you think?

I take it I don't need to run enablecores if I don't have any cores disabled (in bertmod)?

The only time I had to run enablecores was when I upgraded to 0.98 and cgminer kept turning cores on and off all the time until I dropped down to 450GH/s

The reason why I went back to 0.96 is that a) it gave me 555+Gh/s steady again and b) my cores stay enabled all the time.

Dunno if maybe the higher voltage of the later firmwares cause problems with my Jupiter or if its that cgminer is too eager to disable stuff.

Whenever I run bertmod on my Jupiter it shows all cores enabled and steady voltage and watts across all VRM's

I'll try 0.98.1, I always try the latest

0.98

0.96

0.98 works better for me than 98.1

I see there is a lot of people how stuck with firmware upgrades. I write it how I do because I never had a problem after upgrading.

1. ssh to the miner

2. shut down cgminer.

3. run enablecores

4. click reboot

5. ssh into the miner

6. shut down cgminer

7. make the upgrade

8. I never click on reboot, just shut down the miner, wait a minute

9. turn on the miner

10. go to ugprade page -> ctrl+f5

11. if you like install bertmod.

Hope it helps for someone.

One sentence about cooling.

I made a fuckin good cooling for the jupiter, I could cool it down until 26-28C on max load verey time. But Phoenix has right, these boxes runs better warm. For me not 70C but between 45-55C. Less hw and a bit better hash.

Changing a wheel takes 2-3 seconds on F1, yet they lose more like 20 because like these rigs they don't instantly resume their previous speed right away. It's a fair old loss on the pool average especially if you keep doing it or worse, if it results in a lower hashrate (which you won't be sure of for an hour or so)  and you need to revert. Some people have had massive negative results from firmware updates to date, dunno why some and not others, but that required more pissing about and lost hashing.

An hour to get fully back to where you were isn't unusual in my experience when you reboot cgminer/ update. It doesn't go 100% - 0% for a minute - 100% at all, those last few GH can take a while.

Like F1 I think it's better to not have stops you don't have a clear benefit from. 

Same to us, they where running stabil with 540GH/s now since two weeks they hardly Run with 480....

I like that analogy:).  But lets do the math. I dont have a KnC, but how much downtime is there when installing a new firmware and rebooting? Surely less than a minute?

To win back one minute of downtime during the following day, all you would need is a 0.07% performance boost.

My theory is simply that the boxes they ship the units in are "junk" and the unit is so light that whowever ships it tosses it about..it is not like it says 'fragile" or "electronics" on the outside or anything..

Just to be clear my Jupiter IMHO runs really well with only a couple cores iffy (off/on) is probably DUE TO the fact they shipped in such shabby packages.....my theory is that my unit (if it happened at the beginning of the trip) the box was shredded to the extent the only way to keep the miner in the box was basically to use '2 hands" and carry it..thus no tossing about on the  trip...(although it did arrive in a soggy box that you could not pick up with 1 hand and could see mostly shiny miner inside.and the fact the miner was filled with at least a 1/2 glass of rainwater)....


anyway works well on .95 have not touched it..but it is uncalled for these units should at least be in the kinda box you get a cheap DVD machine in..ie ....heavy cardboard etc...there is no excuse...but anyway that is my theory "ass backwards" though it may be on why the only thing I have wrong with it is they did not include 3 of the 4 foam rubber dealie things  on the top of the heat sinks...(the bas*t*rds).....ship them from Sweden immediately I want the 3 pieces for foam rubber they owe me...

anyway.....but I mean really the cheapness of the shipping boxes they use is just plain scary

Searing