The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 6.

MrTeal

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Quote from: lcko on May 18, 2014, 10:19:03 PM

Hi,

Does someone know a place where I can bring them or send them to get fixed ?
Does someone know who can be checked and say that garbage or not?

Thank you so much

Laszlo

Where are you located?

lcko

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Hi,

Does someone know a place where I can bring them or send them to get fixed ?
Does someone know who can be checked and say that garbage or not?

Thank you so much

Laszlo

MrTeal

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Quote from: lcko on May 18, 2014, 08:51:45 PM

Hi,
MrTeal
What do you think is there hope that they will work again or I lost forever them?

Laszlo

So if I understand this correctly, when you got them you fired them without first applying the heatsink, and now they don't work?
If that's the case, it is possible that you did do some damage to the ASICs themselves and they might not be recoverable.

forzendiablo

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the grandpa of cryptos

not worth it anymore

lcko

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Hi,
MrTeal
What do you think is there hope that they will work again or I lost forever them?

Laszlo

lcko

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Hi,

Sorry I'm late.
Yes I did out coolers on the boards, just for a short time 10-15 second.
When I did that they were already broken.
When I took out coolers from the boards, the leds stopped blinking.
I put it back in immediately .
What do you think will they work again or I broke them forever?

Thanks

Laszlo

nexus99

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Did you out coolers on the boards?

lcko

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Hi,

I have to tell you am absolutely beginner. I feel that I did something wrong with the Chili.
First I connected two Chili with power supply LEPA 500W ATX 12V native PSU (N500-sa)
They started work and everything was perfect. About half day later one of them stopped. Then I found out that each of them works separately only.
I tried put them together lot of times in different ways. After one of them stopped and not started again. Another Chili worked nicely. I figured out maybe they need a bigger power supply, because LEPA was very hot . I bought Thermaltake TR2 700W Cable Manegement Opt. TR-700 .
I connected two Chili with new power supply and usb ect. Then I tried start but the Chilis leds ( 1, 3, 5,6,7,8) were flashing just . Then I updated the firmware but nothing.
So ,please, help!!

Device:Chili SC
MANUFACTURER: MrTeal and ChipGeek
FIRMWARE:1.2.14e
CHIP PARALLELIZATION: 0
QUEUE DEPTH:40
TEHORETICAL MAX: 0.00 GH/s
ENGINES: 0
FREQUENCY: 0 MHz
CRITICAL TEMPERATURE: 0
TOTAL THERMAL CYCLES: 0
XLINK MODE: MASTER
XLINK PRESENT: 0
OK

Thank you so much

Laszlo

MrTeal

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Quote from: lcko on May 14, 2014, 09:40:41 PM

Hi

Please someone help me . I bought two used chili and was very happy, all worked perfectly. After half day one of them stopped, and then the another too. I thought the power supply not enough, and I bought a bigger one.(Thermaltake TR2 700W). Now they did not work.
I started cgminer 4.3 first wrote speed is 120 GH/s-360 GH/s but not worked. After it wrote "zombie" after "invalid engine".
Have you any ideas? What can I do?Apparently both of chili lost control.
The chips do not work. One of them fan slowed. The led lights are flashes long time etc. Do you know who can fix them ? Maybe could be reinstall.

Thank you so much.

Laszlo

They both stopped within half a day of you buying them? That's a little odd. PM me the details on where you got them, and then any more details on the installation.

lcko

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Hi

Please someone help me . I bought two used chili and was very happy, all worked perfectly. After half day one of them stopped, and then the another too. I thought the power supply not enough, and I bought a bigger one.(Thermaltake TR2 700W). Now they did not work.
I started cgminer 4.3 first wrote speed is 120 GH/s-360 GH/s but not worked. After it wrote "zombie" after "invalid engine".
Have you any ideas? What can I do?Apparently both of chili lost control.
The chips do not work. One of them fan slowed. The led lights are flashes long time etc. Do you know who can fix them ? Maybe could be reinstall.

Thank you so much.

Laszlo

bitwolf

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Quote from: MrTeal on April 23, 2014, 05:51:34 PM

Quote from: bitwolf on April 18, 2014, 02:03:00 AM

Hi, I have 2 chilis - one from Marto and one that is either from Lucko or MrTeal (I'm not complety sure-it is a dark green pcb with "The Chili Rev 2.1" written on the the upper left side). I flashed the Marto's board with the 1.0v firmware. It went super - everything works way better. But then I flashed the other board - 2-3 sec. after the power cycle the LEDs 5,6,7,8 stay constantly on, 1 and 3 blink synchronously with rate about 2 times in 1 second, LED 2,4 stay off. What should I do? The board worked 3 months wihout any problems. But now it is like dead, windows doesn't find it.

P.S. After a whole day of testing (multiple restarts and waiting together with some heating through a hair dryer) the unit started, the leds went off and windows found the device. Aftert a short moment of joy I discovered that only 4 engines are working - the others are missing. I reflashed again with the same 1.0v FW - but again - the same happened. Next time I have the unit working Im gonna return to the previous fw.

P.S.2 Well. After another day of testing I realised that I can not return the previous FW. I'm stuck with 4 engines now.

Does the board have a rectangular white sticker on it that says something like
AMSXXXX
WO#DMXXXX-XXXX
REV:2.1

If so, it's one of ours. If not, it's one of the ones made by Lucko. I would say it's likely that it's likely that it is one of the Lucko boards if you needed to take a hairdryer to it.
Can you describe what you mean by you can't return to the previous FW? Does the flashing not work?

No, there is no sticker.

The flashing process now just doesn't work. It hangs right away after i press program. Just about 1mm of the programming line is blue. The other 99% just stay gray. I tried it multiple times. Even with a hairdryer before the process. Im stuck with only 4 engines now. At least it is stable now. It makes no sense to mine with these boards now. In the next diff. increase they will be making only enough profit to pay for the power.

2GOOD

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Quote from: MrTeal on April 23, 2014, 05:51:34 PM

Does the board have a rectangular white sticker on it that says something like
AMSXXXX
WO#DMXXXX-XXXX
REV:2.1

Mine has this sticker and is working with the 1.0V fw -> around 30GH i.e. 2-3GH and 30W less, and very low HW

Code:

bfgminer version 3.8.1 - Started: [2014-03-31 14:33:42] - [ 0 days 00:19:15]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [H]elp [Q]uit
Connected to uk1.ghash.io diff 32 with stratum as user 2GOOD.chili
Block: ...bb0612d3 #297466 Diff:6.98G (49.96Ph/s) Started: [13:42:44]
ST:9 F:0 NB:4 AS:0 BW:[ 43/ 28 B/s] E:197.04 I:89.11uBTC/hr BS:9.36k
1 55.0C | 31.58/30.70/30.67Gh/s | A:247 R:0+0(none) HW:3/.04%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BFL 0: 55.0C | 30.67/30.67/30.68Gh/s | A:249 R:0+0(none) HW:3/.04%

And temperature is lower too, it used to be around 68-70C with the 1.1V fw

MrTeal

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Quote from: bitwolf on April 18, 2014, 02:03:00 AM

Hi, I have 2 chilis - one from Marto and one that is either from Lucko or MrTeal (I'm not complety sure-it is a dark green pcb with "The Chili Rev 2.1" written on the the upper left side). I flashed the Marto's board with the 1.0v firmware. It went super - everything works way better. But then I flashed the other board - 2-3 sec. after the power cycle the LEDs 5,6,7,8 stay constantly on, 1 and 3 blink synchronously with rate about 2 times in 1 second, LED 2,4 stay off. What should I do? The board worked 3 months wihout any problems. But now it is like dead, windows doesn't find it.

P.S. After a whole day of testing (multiple restarts and waiting together with some heating through a hair dryer) the unit started, the leds went off and windows found the device. Aftert a short moment of joy I discovered that only 4 engines are working - the others are missing. I reflashed again with the same 1.0v FW - but again - the same happened. Next time I have the unit working Im gonna return to the previous fw.

P.S.2 Well. After another day of testing I realised that I can not return the previous FW. I'm stuck with 4 engines now.

Does the board have a rectangular white sticker on it that says something like
AMSXXXX
WO#DMXXXX-XXXX
REV:2.1

If so, it's one of ours. If not, it's one of the ones made by Lucko. I would say it's likely that it's likely that it is one of the Lucko boards if you needed to take a hairdryer to it.
Can you describe what you mean by you can't return to the previous FW? Does the flashing not work?

ronin4bits

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Quote from: bitwolf on April 18, 2014, 02:03:00 AM

Hi, I have 2 chilis - one from Marto and one that is either from Lucko or MrTeal (I'm not complety sure-it is a dark green pcb with "The Chili Rev 2.1" written on the the upper left side).

I have 2 of Lucko's boards running - AFAIK, none of Lucko's boards have the Chili branding on them - the 2 I have are just blank pcbs (assume they're the same as the rest)...

bitwolf

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Hi, I have 2 chilis - one from Marto and one that is either from Lucko or MrTeal (I'm not complety sure-it is a dark green pcb with "The Chili Rev 2.1" written on the the upper left side). I flashed the Marto's board with the 1.0v firmware. It went super - everything works way better. But then I flashed the other board - 2-3 sec. after the power cycle the LEDs 5,6,7,8 stay constantly on, 1 and 3 blink synchronously with rate about 2 times in 1 second, LED 2,4 stay off. What should I do? The board worked 3 months wihout any problems. But now it is like dead, windows doesn't find it.

P.S. After a whole day of testing (multiple restarts and waiting together with some heating through a hair dryer) the unit started, the leds went off and windows found the device. Aftert a short moment of joy I discovered that only 4 engines are working - the others are missing. I reflashed again with the same 1.0v FW - but again - the same happened. Next time I have the unit working Im gonna return to the previous fw.

P.S.2 Well. After another day of testing I realised that I can not return the previous FW. I'm stuck with 4 engines now.

2GOOD

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Quote from: MrTeal on April 11, 2014, 09:25:54 AM

Quote from: Mudbankkeith on April 07, 2014, 12:13:27 PM

Quote from: MrTeal on April 06, 2014, 06:43:44 PM

Quote from: MrTeal on April 05, 2014, 01:41:46 PM

Quote from: Todamont on April 05, 2014, 01:29:45 PM

At 6.12G difficulty, is the Chili miner still making money on electricity, at say $0.13 / kWhr?

Yeah, it won't be until after 10B that you might want to tune it down. I should post up another FW here that limits the voltage to ~1V to get the power consumption down to the 130W range at the expense of a few GH/s. It's probably actually more profitable, and would extend profitability (@$450) for $0.13/kWh out to about 18B. I'll do that tonight for you guys.

A little late, but technically I haven't slept yet, so it's still tonight.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9f9ne7ilwl3ap8/Chili14e1v0.hex
I just did a test with four random units, and I'm getting 119GH/s with 483W draw at the wall on 120V. HW error rates also look pretty nice, at 0.1%
I've updated the second post.

Hi Mr Teal
Will this cause a problem for the devices from Lucko, that were set up with the "SLOW RISE" software?

Possibly, though if I recall correctly most of the issues happened when voltage went over 1V.

I have chilli from Marto, and it used to crash with original firmware, flashed it with 1.1V and works like a charm, I'll try the new firmware in a couple of days and let you know.

lightfoot

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

By the way I tried loading the lower power hex file on my Chili this afternoon. I also have P3 meters so I can measure power draw, and a 500 watt Corsair supply to dedicate to it.

With the old code, it took 5 minutes to come up to speed, ran at 36gh, and pulled 240 watts at a frequency base of 303.
FIRMWARE: 1.2.14e
THEORETICAL MAX: 36.36 GH/s
ENGINES: 120

After flash
FIRMWARE: 1.2.14x
THEORETICAL MAX: 31.27 GH/s
ENGINES: 126

Holds about 31gh, but with only 137 watts. 4.4w per gh

So the unit went from 6.6w/gh to 4.4w/gh and the cost of that extra 5gh was literally 100 watts. Big difference, it's still high compared to a BFL Single (50gh for 190 watts is 3.8w/gh) but a whole lot better.

If you have chilis I would recommend this firmware change. Now to work harder on lowering the voltage on BFL singles to .85v or so.

Chris

Edit: Note this does include the water cooling block and pumps and fan and such. Runs way way cooler too, 55c which is cooler than a 7 chip jally running a sedion small water block and a bit warmer than an 8 chip jalapeno running a Corsiar H100 large radiator block.

MrTeal

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Quote from: gamefixer on April 11, 2014, 07:54:54 AM

So MrTeal. What are the chances of reviving this Chili I have that has LED's 5-8 stuck on upon power up?

Thanks for the help!

Send me a PM and we can arrange for someone to look at it.

MrTeal

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Quote from: Mudbankkeith on April 07, 2014, 12:13:27 PM

Quote from: MrTeal on April 06, 2014, 06:43:44 PM

Quote from: MrTeal on April 05, 2014, 01:41:46 PM

Quote from: Todamont on April 05, 2014, 01:29:45 PM

At 6.12G difficulty, is the Chili miner still making money on electricity, at say $0.13 / kWhr?

Yeah, it won't be until after 10B that you might want to tune it down. I should post up another FW here that limits the voltage to ~1V to get the power consumption down to the 130W range at the expense of a few GH/s. It's probably actually more profitable, and would extend profitability (@$450) for $0.13/kWh out to about 18B. I'll do that tonight for you guys.

A little late, but technically I haven't slept yet, so it's still tonight.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9f9ne7ilwl3ap8/Chili14e1v0.hex
I just did a test with four random units, and I'm getting 119GH/s with 483W draw at the wall on 120V. HW error rates also look pretty nice, at 0.1%
I've updated the second post.

Hi Mr Teal
Will this cause a problem for the devices from Lucko, that were set up with the "SLOW RISE" software?

Possibly, though if I recall correctly most of the issues happened when voltage went over 1V.

gamefixer

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So MrTeal. What are the chances of reviving this Chili I have that has LED's 5-8 stuck on upon power up?

Thanks for the help!

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