Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[ImI]

So i've been hashing away for an hour or two now and I'm averaging ~440GH @ pool.. I know there is some "burn-in" time but another 100GHs in a day?.. not so sure of that.

With that being said.. KnC GUI shows ~505 as does CG

FW 97, enable cores

Case off

Fan mod

temps under 45C

Ideas? 

downgrade to 0.96

deliver enough cooling

[timmmers]

DHL literally dropped mine off about an hour ago.. up and running now on .97 (Jupiter)

I'm sitting around ~500GH/s - hopefully it creeps up after some burn-in   

Hoping my other 4 arrive soon!

when did you order/pay?

Paid June 10th. Located US West.  

I ordered and paid july and got mine Yesterday.
Maybe they are assembling one type at a time in batches. Mercs, then back to Sats, then Jups?

[nightengale]

Trying to keep the faith in .97...  updated Jupiter 2 hours ago and KnC interface says 555 but pool is reading around 500 or a little less   : (   Not sure what WU means but it is at 7979.

From anyone's experience with .97, will the pool rate come up over time?

[timmmers]

It is coming at 2 days 400 diff

At a month Jupiter will be like jalapeño 0.30 per day

jala makes 0.3 a day? dont think so.

Mercury does about that.

[FoolPartedWithMoney]

ATTENTION PEOPLE WITH DISABLING CORES OR HIGH ERROR RATES:

I got my Saturn a few days back. Didn't hear any noise from possibly loose fans or anything. Hooked it up, ran it for a few hours, it was underperforming a little bit and showed disabling cores on one die. Went to Walmart, bought a new fan and torx screwdrivers, opened the case and saw that one of the fans' ground was disconnected and fan wasn't spinning. Got scared of course and thought that my disabled cores were the result of that few hours of running without a fan (although temperatures never exceeded 60 degrees). Connected the ground, fan started spinning. Anyway, these cores disabling on one of the dies continued on and it was really bugging me. Tried enablecores, changing firmwares etc, nothing helped. Today I found enough courage to start messing with it a little bit deeper. Found out which board was disabling cores (and it was not the one which had fan disabled), changed slots, pushed down on vrm's as some suggested. Heard a click on two of them, and thought, that's it. Put everything back together but the core disabling continued. I was very short from starting messing with resistors on the back of the pcb behind the chip, when it came to me, so here what I suggest you try:
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any loss of warranty or other issues as the result of doing this.
1. Find out which asic is giving you problems (just counting, for ex if 0-131 is disabled, then that's the one connected to the first slot)
2. Shutdown the miner, and then REMOVE the fan (but not the radiator) cooling that chip (unscrew and then it pops out, or just unplug the power to that fan), turn off your own cooling if you added any.
Turn on your miner.

One by one cores enabled and I have 0 disabled cores for about an hour now and hardware error rate is steadily falling. Temperature is at about 58 right now on that chip without the fan, so I reckoned it's not too bad. It appears that kncminers from cold Sweden like warm weather.

If this helps, donations are appreciated

[soy]

0.97 seems to hate p2pool less than earlier versions did, but still there is too much hate, cannot reasonably use p2pool still.

Although not improved enough to work right with p2pool yet, 0.97 has overall been an improvement for me.

-MarkM-

I am mining on P2Pool right now with a Saturn, getting 275 GH/s with WU of 4152 right this sec.

Using the web interface?

Or did you go in with ssh and fiddle with the cgminer timeouts and such?

(I have only been using the web interface as the ssh does not seem to like the username/password the web interface shipped with.)

-MarkM-

Did you try admin/admin or root/admin or both?

[Phoenix1969]

Looks like Hashfast is going to be a month late, which works to our advantage. Hopefully after this increase this will mean at least one difficulty increase that will be minor.

0.97 works great, getting 278gh/s avg on a Saturn, awesome!

OH WOW, that's good news... thanx

[Phoenix1969]

My best advice for 0.97, is... let it run...

8 Hours after flashing 0.97


10 Hours...


12 Hours...


Pool agrees. red blob is where i Flashed 0.97


I'll just update this post from now on as far as the 0.97 results as to not keep reposting...

24 hrs after 0.97



still problem with 1 machine...
one of the sats went back to 250
tried reflash, nada

[timmmers]

Did my merc a short while ago and got little out of it with .97 but it's risen slowly from 136 ave to 148 ave now. That's like a free Jalapeno.
With the BTC hovering round 220, an almost 50% higher has rate than expected and Hashfast possibly being late to the party...circumstances are conspiring to save the day it seems

[nightengale]

Looks like Hashfast is going to be a month late, which works to our advantage. Hopefully after this increase this will mean at least one difficulty increase that will be minor.

Have been looking for a source on this -- do you have one?

[timmmers]

Looks like Hashfast is going to be a month late, which works to our advantage. Hopefully after this increase this will mean at least one difficulty increase that will be minor.

Have been looking for a source on this -- do you have one?

Not official no, but their biggest fan hasn't popped over to disagree so it's possible.
Cross your fingers

[Phoenix1969]

Looks like Hashfast is going to be a month late, which works to our advantage. Hopefully after this increase this will mean at least one difficulty increase that will be minor.

Have been looking for a source on this -- do you have one?

Not official no, but their biggest fan hasn't popped over to disagree so it's possible.
Cross your fingers

So, are they actually overdue?

[loktang1125]

I want to sell one of my jepiter
i have three of them and they are all running over 555ghs
pm if interested for more info or pic
accept bitcoin payment only (bank transfer to oversea costing too many time which is reducing you profit)

[timmmers]

Looks like Hashfast is going to be a month late, which works to our advantage. Hopefully after this increase this will mean at least one difficulty increase that will be minor.

Have been looking for a source on this -- do you have one?

Not official no, but their biggest fan hasn't popped over to disagree so it's possible.
Cross your fingers

So, are they actually overdue?

They can't be yet, but word has it they maybe..still looking for info. It's not like they're any more likely than KNC to admit it flat out though.

On a side note, after updating to .97 and the relief of it going fine which is a bit nailbiting after seeing some other tales of woe...I was sitting here at almost 4am when I heard a pretty loud whirring coming from the miner. Oh no, I thought..it's decided to go pear shared on me too. It was never noisy before. Went to check it up close and the whirring was a bloody police helecopter outside somewhere trying to give me a heart attack the bastards.

[timmmers]

I want to sell one of my jepiter
i have three of them and they are all running over 555ghs
pm if interested for more info or pic
accept bitcoin payment only (bank transfer to oversea costing too many time which is reducing you profit)

Try here maybe? https://asktom.cf/index.php?board=51.0

[edgar]

i just flashed enablecores onto my .97 jup and so far i cant get back into knc GUI. During the flash i saw All Cores Enabled.

ive cleared the cache and tried to connect via FF, IE & Chrome - none allow me past the login screen..

puTTY shows the rig is running, BTCG shows it is hashing albeit 100GH slower than it was but i expect it will ramp up.

still, would like to get back into the GUI without having to unplug my ether cable to get in direct...

[AussieHash]

My experience on my "bad" Jupiter with 0.95 to 0.97
An increase in WU from 6990 to 76xx +
An increase in HW errors up to 36%, which remained that high after >12 hours
A reduction in pool performance at 385-400GH/s despite 2 reboots, changing worker number

Reverting back to 0.95 shows now 40-80 dead cores on BertMod (despite enable cores)
WU back to 69xx
HW error ratio down to 18% after only a few mins
Pool performance 455 Gh/s and rising, despite the 10% lower WU

[DigginDeep]

So i see allot of people here are on eligius pool I tried it over night and seemed to be less then i was making on btcquild.  However i know i really have to give it more time to see real results.  But im curious if there is anyone that has spend allot of time on both of them and what kind of findings did they find?   I really like the layout of btcguild my self.  But if i can make more BTC else where being eligius or somewhere else i give up the nice interface,  seems i have only made around .7 of a bitcoing the last 24 hours on btcquild with a Jupiter witch im thinking i could be making more eles where.   what are others making a day and where at?

[sbfree]

Hey guys,

I have a Jupiter unit hosted with KnC since the beginning. It was performing really nice, with averages near the 550 GH/s on Bitminter, sometimes even reaching the 600 GH/s

After the firmware update yesterday it has been hashing all day in the 400's range. I'm reading very good feedback about the new firmware, but whatever it was, it really screwed my hashing rates.

Anyone experiencing a similar situation?

Thank you in advance for your feedback,

Best,

I updated by "bad" jupiter from 0.95 (with enable cores) to 0.97 about 12 hours ago

The WU increased from 69xx to 76xx-78xx, but the error rate is high 37% and the cgminer Avg is the same, despite the increased WU
 (5s):504.3G (avg):482.4Gh/s | A:2669800  R:20300  HW:1004701  WU:7644.5/m

The pool reported speed remains lower on 0.97, currently 405.04Gh/s

Aussiehash, I feel your pain. My saturn will either run a firmware that has low errors but then has low WU and low hashing. If I use a firmware like .97, where it improves hashing and WU, but the errors are then at 20%-25%.....KNC looks like I am not the only one with an error problem. As far as I can tell, most of the cores are enabled, so not sure what the problem is.

[edgar]

So i see allot of people here are on eligius pool I tried it over night and seemed to be less then i was making on btcquild.  However i know i really have to give it more time to see real results.  But im curious if there is anyone that has spend allot of time on both of them and what kind of findings did they find?   I really like the layout of btcguild my self.  But if i can make more BTC else where being eligius or somewhere else i give up the nice interface,  seems i have only made around .7 of a bitcoing the last 24 hours on btcquild with a Jupiter witch im thinking i could be making more eles where.   what are others making a day and where at?

i am on BTCG and made less than a BTC in the last 24hrs, i put it down to luck and me fiddling about reflashing and trying to see my realtime stats.

Now my avg is 1.3Mh/s

and WU is 0.0

wtf?!!

Reflashed .97 again - got my GUI access again

pushed down all the VRMs and heard 3-4 click down a bit.

went from 538 - 510 to;

Mining Status

CGMiner Status   Running (pid=4175)
Last Checked   Thu Oct 24 03:44:18 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate   0 Gh/  <<<---WTF!
WU   0        <<<---WTF!
Difficulty Accepted   124928
HW Status

ASIC slot #1   43.0 ℃
ASIC slot #2   -
ASIC slot #3   49.0 ℃
ASIC slot #4   50.0 ℃
ASIC slot #5   45.5 ℃
ASIC slot #6   -

starting to wish id left it at .95.....