[GUIDE] BitFury Miner Support/Tuning

[spiccioli]

hmmm .. somehow after plugin back one of my old h-boards ... one just stopped getting recoginzed.

I tried to use different slots without success and remarked that having other boards in subsequent slots in the same bank makes them also unrecognized.

I have no idear what happend I can't find any traces of something bad ... does any one can help or has an idear?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43738391/1.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43738391/2.JPG


What can I check? Anyone?

I have something similar,

a new board, one without capacitors, all of a sudden is not recognized anymore.

I've moved it into nearly every slot, it is not recognized.

No burn signs, at a visual inspection board seems like all the others.

Any idea?

Thanks.

spiccioli

[-Redacted-]

Ditto.   I RMA'ed mine.  Nothing obviously different about this board than any others.

[buzzdave]

Hi guys - since the latest round of H-cards was shipped at .865v, rigs pull significantly higher wattage.  I'm seeing signs of connector burn & overloaded power supplies with some customers.  Please be safe - if you are overclocking or running a full rig, a 1200 watt supply is probably a better choice. 

Keep your rigs away from flammables - remember these are high-wattage devices!

I've been a little out of touch, sorry if this comes late - we don't have these problems at the data center.  We use a 10g high strand count copper wire between 12v supply and the metal lugs on the M-board.  The length of our power cables is only about 12 inches.

Best,
Dave

[Micky25]

maybe this fits  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM

[goxed]

Hey guys, did you ever get a board which will not hash no matter what settings you try? I have obtained one such board. All it throws are loads of errors. I have tested the usual suspects voltage, etc.
It's a new PCIexpress style board, so I cannot bypass a chip.

I have tried disabling chips in software but the board will not hash. I tried it as a sole board connected to an Mboard.

[tom99]

I did change dead from 0 to 56 and get better hashrate.

speed:5272 noncerate[GH/s]:190.339 (1.983/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:201.838 good:13295 errors:556 spi-errors:2 miso-errors:0 jobs:293 (record[GH/s]:0.000)
0:   878   30.938   33.907   2161   173   0   0
1:   879   32.227   34.161   2251   76   0   0
2:   877   33.257   34.225   2323   28   1   0
3:   878   32.627   34.605   2279   129   0   0
4:   879   32.914   34.372   2299   77   0   0
5:   881   28.375   30.567   1982   73   1   0


last one from Aug. starter kit no OC.

[CA Coins]

Hi guys - since the latest round of H-cards was shipped at .865v, rigs pull significantly higher wattage.  I'm seeing signs of connector burn & overloaded power supplies with some customers.  Please be safe - if you are overclocking or running a full rig, a 1200 watt supply is probably a better choice. 

Keep your rigs away from flammables - remember these are high-wattage devices!

I've been a little out of touch, sorry if this comes late - we don't have these problems at the data center.  We use a 10g high strand count copper wire between 12v supply and the metal lugs on the M-board.  The length of our power cables is only about 12 inches.

Best,
Dave

Just to clarify after reading the fire hazard thread.  I am using 2 separate pci express power connectors to power a full rig right now.  Should I also power the 12V/GND power connectors on the other end of the M-board?  The rigs have been running stable for the past month.

V3M/V2.2H/Corsair 870 platinum, stock settings, about 650W at the wall

[tom99]

Hi guys - since the latest round of H-cards was shipped at .865v, rigs pull significantly higher wattage.  I'm seeing signs of connector burn & overloaded power supplies with some customers.  Please be safe - if you are overclocking or running a full rig, a 1200 watt supply is probably a better choice. 

Keep your rigs away from flammables - remember these are high-wattage devices!

I've been a little out of touch, sorry if this comes late - we don't have these problems at the data center.  We use a 10g high strand count copper wire between 12v supply and the metal lugs on the M-board.  The length of our power cables is only about 12 inches.

Best,
Dave

Just to clarify after reading the fire hazard thread.  I am using 2 separate pci express power connectors to power a full rig right now.  Should I also power the 12V/GND power connectors on the other end of the M-board?  The rigs have been running stable for the past month.

V3M/V2.2H/Corsair 870 platinum, stock settings, about 650W at the wall

  I think 2 cables might over load it but if me add 2 more cables to reduce heat up on pci-e cable.

[CA Coins]

I assume it's ok to run power to both the pci express power connectors and the 12V/GND screw terminals?

[Keefe]

I assume it's ok to run power to both the pci express power connectors and the 12V/GND screw terminals?

Yes, that's what I do. I bought some splitters on ebay, cut them up, and added ring terminals, like what came with the v1 M-boards. I don't like hot connectors.

[tom99]

  anyone mine ppc?  I am trying to mined ppc get alot of errors

speed:5272 noncerate[GH/s]:109.293 (1.138/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:29.563 good:7634 errors:3164 spi-errors:0 miso-errors:34 jobs:57 (record[GH/s]:0.000)
0:   878   17.194   4.947   1201   648   0   7
1:   878   18.898   4.957   1320   521   0   11
2:   877   19.370   5.052   1353   502   0   5
3:   878   17.495   4.883   1222   530   0   5
4:   880   19.127   5.031   1336   476   0   3
5:   881   17.209   4.693   1202   487   0   3

work fined for btc.

[spegelius]

  anyone mine ppc?  I am trying to mined ppc get alot of errors

speed:5272 noncerate[GH/s]:109.293 (1.138/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:29.563 good:7634 errors:3164 spi-errors:0 miso-errors:34 jobs:57 (record[GH/s]:0.000)
0:   878   17.194   4.947   1201   648   0   7
1:   878   18.898   4.957   1320   521   0   11
2:   877   19.370   5.052   1353   502   0   5
3:   878   17.495   4.883   1222   530   0   5
4:   880   19.127   5.031   1336   476   0   3
5:   881   17.209   4.693   1202   487   0   3

work fined for btc.

I mine PPC occasionally, i have automated the switching of coins based on profitability info from web. Pool i use is https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=173272.0 which works fine.

With bitfury it seems that what pool you are using means alot; with some pools, you need to remove the -rt from stratum proxy's command line. Also when selecting the pool, it's a good idea to select pools where you can manually set the desired difficulty. With pools that select difficulty automatically i've seen that sometimes the difficulty drops too low and then .putstat shows a lot of requests queued, and performance tanks...

[tom99]

  anyone mine ppc?  I am trying to mined ppc get alot of errors

speed:5272 noncerate[GH/s]:109.293 (1.138/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:29.563 good:7634 errors:3164 spi-errors:0 miso-errors:34 jobs:57 (record[GH/s]:0.000)
0:   878   17.194   4.947   1201   648   0   7
1:   878   18.898   4.957   1320   521   0   11
2:   877   19.370   5.052   1353   502   0   5
3:   878   17.495   4.883   1222   530   0   5
4:   880   19.127   5.031   1336   476   0   3
5:   881   17.209   4.693   1202   487   0   3

work fined for btc.

I mine PPC occasionally, i have automated the switching of coins based on profitability info from web. Pool i use is https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=173272.0 which works fine.

With bitfury it seems that what pool you are using means alot; with some pools, you need to remove the -rt from stratum proxy's command line. Also when selecting the pool, it's a good idea to select pools where you can manually set the desired difficulty. With pools that select difficulty automatically i've seen that sometimes the difficulty drops too low and then .putstat shows a lot of requests queued, and performance tanks...

I used ppc D7 pool and I thank you.  I am going to try it later on.

[tom99]

I still get alot of errors with remove -rt and I used mining it with Aug. 25Gh/s starter kit.


edit: I used Minimum Difficulty 128 for 6 Hboards about 180Gh/s on D7 pool.

[spegelius]

Just checked, i have -rt when mining to D7 pool. For me it works nicely, D7 shows the hash rate at 150-160 Gh/s (5 hboards, Bitfury management shows about 160-167).

I have stratum proxy set up to restart in 15 minute intervals, not sure if that has anything to do with this... no automatic restart for chainminer, even though i think it would be good to set that up too.

speed:4276 noncerate[GH/s]:162.393 (2.030/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:184.398 good:11343 errors:1148 spi-errors:0 miso-errors:0 jobs:291 (record[GH/s]:167.933)
0:   811   32.312   34.626   2257   109   0   0
4:   821   30.838   36.064   2154   321   0   0
5:   888   33.186   39.911   2318   414   0   0
8:   883   34.861   39.604   2435   208   0   0
C:   873   31.196   34.193   2179   96   0   0

Hmm, seems it might be good idea to do some finetuning again, more errors than last check a week back.

[tom99]

 work good for few seconds and one miso-errors then hashrate drop down and mass miso-errors.   I might be  h/w problem with my first hboard but everything work nicely for btc mining.

[ricolein]

I mine PPC occasionally, i have automated the switching of coins based on profitability info from web. Pool i use is https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=173272.0 which works fine.

Can you tell me how you setup this automated switching?

Ciao

Enrico

[salfter]

I mine PPC occasionally, i have automated the switching of coins based on profitability info from web. Pool i use is https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=173272.0 which works fine.

Can you tell me how you setup this automated switching?

CryptoSwitcher will do that for you...had it running when I just had BFL miners, but it should work with these just as well.  The only snag is that other sha256d coins usually won't make that much more than Bitcoin (right now, PPCoin will net you 18% more than Bitcoin, but that's before you exchange it).

[spegelius]

I mine PPC occasionally, i have automated the switching of coins based on profitability info from web. Pool i use is https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=173272.0 which works fine.

Can you tell me how you setup this automated switching?

CryptoSwitcher will do that for you...had it running when I just had BFL miners, but it should work with these just as well.  The only snag is that other sha256d coins usually won't make that much more than Bitcoin (right now, PPCoin will net you 18% more than Bitcoin, but that's before you exchange it).

Yeah, i found that software after i had written my own. It usually goes like this, if i get an idea about something that would be nice, someone has already thought about it and propably implemented it . Well it wasn't complete waste of time, learned Python3 doing it and it works. If only i had more time to implement some nice guis for monitoring miner speeds, current pools and editing configs...

[tom99]

I am mining ppc with bfgminer work ok but not bitfury admin that meant not h/w problem.