The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 2.

MrTeal

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Quote from: x86cam on December 22, 2014, 03:56:21 AM

I just bought this miner a few days ago from eBay for the sake of getting 30+ GH/s.

I hooked this thing up to a 200W PSU and an Ubuntu Server box.
I can't seem to get it past 8Gh/s. The only time I see above 8 is when I first boot up bfgminer and it warns me about the temperature.
I have plenty of cooling for this thing, so I dunno what's wrong.

If someone can help me on this issue, that would be great.

Was this one of the ones that Lucko had made, or is it an original Chili?
Try downloading the ChiliFlash utility linked at the start of this thread, and see if all the asics report as working.

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Quote from: x86cam on December 22, 2014, 03:56:21 AM

I just bought this miner a few days ago from eBay for the sake of getting 30+ GH/s.

I hooked this thing up to a 200W PSU and an Ubuntu Server box.
I can't seem to get it past 8Gh/s. The only time I see above 8 is when I first boot up bfgminer and it warns me about the temperature.
I have plenty of cooling for this thing, so I dunno what's wrong.

If someone can help me on this issue, that would be great.

Some Chili miners need to be booted from below 20c otherwise the power mosfets think it is overheating.
Also a secondary fan blowing onto the mosfet part of the board helps with power control.
BFGminer 3.10.0 was ok with my chili's

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Quote from: Unacceptable on December 22, 2014, 05:57:12 AM

Try BFGminer version 3.1.1,that one worked very well....way back when Wink

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bfgminer/3.1.1/

Good idea. If 3.1.1 works, it makes troubleshooting 5.0 much easier

Unacceptable

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Try BFGminer version 3.1.1,that one worked very well....way back when Wink

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bfgminer/3.1.1/

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Quote from: x86cam on December 22, 2014, 03:56:21 AM

I just bought this miner a few days ago from eBay for the sake of getting 30+ GH/s.

I hooked this thing up to a 200W PSU and an Ubuntu Server box.
I can't seem to get it past 8Gh/s. The only time I see above 8 is when I first boot up bfgminer and it warns me about the temperature.
I have plenty of cooling for this thing, so I dunno what's wrong.

If someone can help me on this issue, that would be great.

The hardware error rate looks really high - is it possible that it may be defective?
Maybe try cgminer (you'll have to mess up your drivers with Zadig if you use Windows... Sad

) and see if it performs any better with that? (if it does, let me know and I'll see if I can help fix BFGMiner..)

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I just bought this miner a few days ago from eBay for the sake of getting 30+ GH/s.

http://puu.sh/dENMI/02a9425b2b.png

I hooked this thing up to a 200W PSU and an Ubuntu Server box.
I can't seem to get it past 8Gh/s. The only time I see above 8 is when I first boot up bfgminer and it warns me about the temperature.
I have plenty of cooling for this thing, so I dunno what's wrong.

If someone can help me on this issue, that would be great.

lightfoot

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I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

Everything I could think of.

Lowest possible voltage with resistor changes (I think it came out to .7v or so), clock speed 0, no fans at all, and replaced all the FETs with much higher efficiency/better matched ones. I didn't screw with the FET clocking frequencies, but I did get rid of all that heat. (what did I do, I think it was going to 1-2 high side FETs and 2 low side FETs. If there was heat, I was working on it.

It was a little putt-putt, but I did manage to get it down below the 3w/gh barrier.

When I downclocked the Chili with your code, I think I remember it being closer to a bit under 4w/gh at a speed of about 30gh. Since we never had the real code I couldn't futz with it more to bring voltages down to the bottom range.

C

MrTeal

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Quote from: lightfoot on November 19, 2014, 10:22:47 PM

How efficient are they again with the low power flash? I disassembled my Chili awhile back, but now that it's cold upstairs I could use some more heat.

The turbo jallies did 5w/gh, the Single/60's did 4, a super low power and clock single can do close to 2w/gh. What's the current and speed for a Chili (running at full 40gh speed it was exceptionally inefficient but that didn't matter last winter).

I haven't really looked into it, but I doubt it's very low.

What voltage and clock settings did you use to get a Single to 2W/GH?

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I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

How efficient are they again with the low power flash? I disassembled my Chili awhile back, but now that it's cold upstairs I could use some more heat.

The turbo jallies did 5w/gh, the Single/60's did 4, a super low power and clock single can do close to 2w/gh. What's the current and speed for a Chili (running at full 40gh speed it was exceptionally inefficient but that didn't matter last winter).

MrTeal

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If someone wants to pay shipping, I have about a dozen bare boards kicking around that you can have if you'd like. They're just sitting on a shelf. Tongue

I do have a bunch of coolers for them as well, but I'd want $15/pc for the coolers and it would make shipping more expensive.

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Quote from: JusMe on November 15, 2014, 10:40:20 AM

Any good used Chilis with coolers available for sale? Most posts are pretty old.

Where might you be located at?

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Quote from: Mudbankkeith on November 15, 2014, 11:09:31 AM

Quote from: JusMe on November 15, 2014, 10:40:20 AM

Any good used Chilis with coolers available for sale? Most posts are pretty old.

Got a few here in the UK

See my post on EBay

I have a bare board on ebay now.

Mudbankkeith

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Quote from: JusMe on November 15, 2014, 10:40:20 AM

Any good used Chilis with coolers available for sale? Most posts are pretty old.

Got a few here in the UK

See my post on EBay

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Any good used Chilis with coolers available for sale? Most posts are pretty old.

Maldrien

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Ah, you're using BFGminer. In that case, you do need the FTDI driver. Do you see the device as a comm port when you plug it in?
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No it doesn't, but the erupters does

Oh oh Guess who's back baby! That's right after installing CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified.exe it is finally hashing without problem! Thank you MrTeal and hotwired007!

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Quote from: Maldrien on September 03, 2014, 11:19:22 AM

Quote from: MrTeal on September 03, 2014, 10:22:17 AM

Quote from: Maldrien on September 03, 2014, 10:08:57 AM

Quote from: hotwired007 on September 03, 2014, 02:57:12 AM

Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.

I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in.

The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili.

I have hope it's not doomed yet.

I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results.

Thanks for the help!

Try installing the libusb driver using zadig, as explained in the cgminer readme.
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/zadig/

I tried installing libusb and my erupters were not longer working and the Chili wasn't showing up in bfgminer. The only way I got them back working again was by re-installing CP210x USB to UART Bridge Driver v6.6.1 outside zadig. But the Chili is still unresponsive.

I got 15 Erupters and 1 Chili on this build and I've been using Bfgminer 4.5 for a while without problems.

Edit: I'll unplug all erupters and see what's going on in device manager

Ah, you're using BFGminer. In that case, you do need the FTDI driver. Do you see the device as a comm port when you plug it in?

Maldrien

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Quote from: MrTeal on September 03, 2014, 10:22:17 AM

Quote from: Maldrien on September 03, 2014, 10:08:57 AM

Quote from: hotwired007 on September 03, 2014, 02:57:12 AM

Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.

I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in.

The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili.

I have hope it's not doomed yet.

I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results.

Thanks for the help!

Try installing the libusb driver using zadig, as explained in the cgminer readme.
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/zadig/

I tried installing libusb and my erupters were not longer working and the Chili wasn't showing up in bfgminer. The only way I got them back working again was by re-installing CP210x USB to UART Bridge Driver v6.6.1 outside zadig. But the Chili is still unresponsive.

I got 15 Erupters and 1 Chili on this build and I've been using Bfgminer 4.5 for a while without problems.

Edit: I'll unplug all erupters and see what's going on in device manager

Soo after unplugging everyting I can see the Chili in device manager as BitForce SHA256 SC. In Zadig the driver is WinUSB v.6.1.7600 WCID: X but still doesn't appear in Bfgminer on the original pc. BUT it does on the laptop with these drivers and CGminer BUT it doesn't mine. Cgminer connects to the pool but after 30 min nothing shows.

If I try to install the WCID it fail everytime

Again with Zadig I tried the libusb_win32 v1.2.6.0 driver without luck

The guy who sold it to me, told me he never was able to get the chili work with BFGminer. He used cgminer. But it worked right away the first time for me in BFG wy doesn't it work now Sad

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Quote from: Maldrien on September 03, 2014, 10:08:57 AM

Quote from: hotwired007 on September 03, 2014, 02:57:12 AM

Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.

I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in.

The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili.

I have hope it's not doomed yet.

I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results.

Thanks for the help!

Try installing the libusb driver using zadig, as explained in the cgminer readme.
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/zadig/

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Quote from: hotwired007 on September 03, 2014, 02:57:12 AM

Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.

I tried on my laptop (no drivers installed, fresh W7 install) and as soon as the USB was plugged in the laptop discovered the chili. I then proceeded to install the drivers ( CDM v2.10.00 WHQL Certified ) and now it's a USB Hub with an exclamation mark... and says failed to install device. So I must have the wrong drivers... If I uninstall the device, it will reappear just the same when plugged back in.

The thing is, I've been running a couple of Block Erupters just for fun on the original PC. When I bought the Chili it worked right away without the need to install additional drivers. Why the pc BSOD in the first place who knows, I wasn't there. But all erupters are working fine after that but not the Chili.

I have hope it's not doomed yet.

I'll try on a third pc, also with a fresh W7 install with new leads and another PSU. I'll be back with more info / results.

Thanks for the help!

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Have you tried in a different PC or a different USB lead? might also be worth rying on a different PSU to exlude any other hardware as faulty.

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