**US** BitFury Setup Guide

[woobone]

hello guys, need some help here! got my extra h-board today, after install the h-board, turn power on the pi turn on but only the red light stay on, and already try to remove the new card, still doing the same!!!! now I'm unable to ssh or use the web to get in!!!! any idea? thanks!

[klondike_bar]

hello guys, need some help here! got my extra h-board today, after install the h-board, turn power on the pi turn on but only the red light stay on, and already try to remove the new card, still doing the same!!!! now I'm unable to ssh or use the web to get in!!!! any idea? thanks!

Its you SD Card. Load up another one or re-image it to get going again. It seems like sometimes powering down causes the issue.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: what would happen with there being fans drawing power from the M-board? Is it possible that when the unit powers off, the fans' continued rotation is forcing a dropping (but available) voltage across the RPi damaging either the SD or causing partial operation/writes by the processor?

im curious whether the victims of SD cards or RPis dying commonly use more or bigger fans drawing from the board connectors? I was using a 3-pin 230mm and 2-wire 80mm the one (and only) time my SD card needed a swap. Im still using that since with no issues

[woobone]

hello guys, need some help here! got my extra h-board today, after install the h-board, turn power on the pi turn on but only the red light stay on, and already try to remove the new card, still doing the same!!!! now I'm unable to ssh or use the web to get in!!!! any idea? thanks!

Its you SD Card. Load up another one or re-image it to get going again. It seems like sometimes powering down causes the issue.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: what would happen with there being fans drawing power from the M-board? Is it possible that when the unit powers off, the fans' continued rotation is forcing a dropping (but available) voltage across the RPi damaging either the SD or causing partial operation/writes by the processor?

im curious whether the victims of SD cards or RPis dying commonly use more or bigger fans drawing from the board connectors? I was using a 3-pin 230mm and 2-wire 80mm the one (and only) time my SD card needed a swap. Im still using that since with no issues

thanks klondike!! but i have no idea how to re-image the SD Card and do i need a SD card reader??? thanks

edit: should i get a new SD card and can i use a 8GB?

[klondike_bar]

hello guys, need some help here! got my extra h-board today, after install the h-board, turn power on the pi turn on but only the red light stay on, and already try to remove the new card, still doing the same!!!! now I'm unable to ssh or use the web to get in!!!! any idea? thanks!

Its you SD Card. Load up another one or re-image it to get going again. It seems like sometimes powering down causes the issue.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: what would happen with there being fans drawing power from the M-board? Is it possible that when the unit powers off, the fans' continued rotation is forcing a dropping (but available) voltage across the RPi damaging either the SD or causing partial operation/writes by the processor?

im curious whether the victims of SD cards or RPis dying commonly use more or bigger fans drawing from the board connectors? I was using a 3-pin 230mm and 2-wire 80mm the one (and only) time my SD card needed a swap. Im still using that since with no issues

thanks klondike!! but i have no idea how to re-image the SD Card and do i need a SD card reader??? thanks

edit: should i get a new SD card and can i use a 8GB?

a new one makes a good backup. 4GB is mine and makes keeping both with a working image much simpler if the issue happens again. you'll need an sd card reader, or a lot of linux skills. (I suggest a 2$ card reader :p)

[zurg]

I loaded V1 SD card image on my 50Mbit line.

ftp://bitfury:[email protected]/bfimage/rPi_V1.img


PM if any problems.

[frankenmint]

Has anyone used a short gpio cable on these yet so your pi isn't mounted sideways looking funny? what is the smallest cable I can get?  Looks like maybe 6" ?

[klondike_bar]

Has anyone used a short gpio cable on these yet so your pi isn't mounted sideways looking funny? what is the smallest cable I can get?  Looks like maybe 6" ?

the RPi is very particular about gpio cables causing interference and errors in hashing. id say 4" is the very longest you can use, but i know some people have had issues with trying to get even shorter ones to work in the spottswood cases. if you just want to adjust the angle, 1-2" is your safest choice.

[Swimmer63]

Question - I am suppose to receive a second EOL board today.  How do order them on the M-board.
The higher hashing one first and then the lower one at the end of the line?  Does it matter?

[Slander]

can someone post a pic of how they connected their psu to the mainboard. Looked all over and can't figure this out. I have the paperclip jumper on psu working so it will provide power but I don't know how to connect psu to the main bitfury board.

[Swimmer63]

can someone post a pic of how they connected their psu to the mainboard. Looked all over and can't figure this out. I have the paperclip jumper on psu working so it will provide power but I don't know how to connect psu to the main bitfury board.

It's in the OP.  But here are some shots.  I have a small switch instead of a paperclip.  They are about $9 at Robotshop.
http://imgur.com/a/mXpyt

[Trongersoll]

can someone post a pic of how they connected their psu to the mainboard. Looked all over and can't figure this out. I have the paperclip jumper on psu working so it will provide power but I don't know how to connect psu to the main bitfury board.

In part, it depends on which motherboard you have. the V1 boards come with an adapter that gets screwed to them. Get the polarity right or you smoke the MB. The V2 and later MBs allow you to plug the PCIe power connecters right into the MB.

[Slander]

Ahhh many thanks to swimmer and tronger. I just had a closer look at mine and it says V3.0 and has the pcie connectors. It also has the terminal screws so I was confused. Looks like I can just hook up directly to the pcie and I am good to go, will post screen shot when I get it working.

[chamber32]

On a 3.0 M-Card, which way is the RPi oriented, board up or hanging down?

EDIT:  Never mind, I found the pin 1 markings. (board up, BTW)

thx,

c32

[BTClobsta]

NOTE

Due to my personal epic screw-up the SD image does not contain a working binary. And on top of this some orders were shipped without instructions also We have whipped ourselves vigorously here over the weekend and will try to improve our process so these bloopers don't happen in the future.

Here's how to get your miner working:
1. Check your router for bitfury IP
2. SSH into the raspberry pi (username pi password raspberry)
3. Run following commands:

Code:

cd /opt/bitfury/chainminer
sudo make clean
sudo make
sudo killall screen
sudo /etc/rc.local

You should now be mining. You can check the web interface of the miner with a normal browser and setup your pools there (use the IP that you used for SSH).

after followed the instructions here and for some reason my miner would only load up to the login and password for the rpi and then turn off. the strange thing is that it didn't do this before i followed the instructions. did i do something wrong?

[BTClobsta]

i've also notice that my hboards are getting really hot even when i'm not mining.

miner: no process found

what does that mean. is something wrong with my sd?

[klondike_bar]

ive got an issue: all my chips are reading "speed->0" or "turn off" within a few minutes of zero hashing.

i have tried several restarts, stop/start miner commands, and verified the proxy id is correct. The issue happened on 2 h-boards at the same time, and suddenly after days of stable hashing

edit: modified the second worker to use port 3334 (ghash.io) and left the first at port 3333 - looks like its ramping back up slowly

edit 2: great -after a few minutes the cards read 51GH (quite low), and the pool topped at 2.5GH. Its now dropped back to zero again, whats going on? (I have a usb asic on the pool just fine)

edit 3: ive decided to spread my effort
worker 1- ghash.io port 3333    - nothing seen at pool
worker 2 - ghash.io port 3334 - nothing seen at pool
worker 3 - mint.bitminter.com - briefly 9GH, now nothing?

the reported hashrate at the bitfury webUI started at 70Gh and over 5min has slowly dropped to 25Gh. wtf is going on here?

[tom99]

ive got an issue: all my chips are reading "speed->0" or "turn off" within a few minutes of zero hashing.

i have tried several restarts, stop/start miner commands, and verified the proxy id is correct. The issue happened on 2 h-boards at the same time, and suddenly after days of stable hashing

edit: modified the second worker to use port 3334 (ghash.io) and left the first at port 3333 - looks like its ramping back up slowly

edit 2: great -after a few minutes the cards read 51GH (quite low), and the pool topped at 2.5GH. Its now dropped back to zero again, whats going on? (I have a usb asic on the pool just fine)

edit 3: ive decided to spread my effort
worker 1- ghash.io port 3333    - nothing seen at pool
worker 2 - ghash.io port 3334 - nothing seen at pool
worker 3 - mint.bitminter.com - briefly 9GH, now nothing?

the reported hashrate at the bitfury webUI started at 70Gh and over 5min has slowly dropped to 25Gh. wtf is going on here?

   take bad hboard outside for few minutes then put back and run it.

ps: I got 2 hboards did same to me.

[klondike_bar]

ive got an issue: all my chips are reading "speed->0" or "turn off" within a few minutes of zero hashing.

i have tried several restarts, stop/start miner commands, and verified the proxy id is correct. The issue happened on 2 h-boards at the same time, and suddenly after days of stable hashing

edit: modified the second worker to use port 3334 (ghash.io) and left the first at port 3333 - looks like its ramping back up slowly

edit 2: great -after a few minutes the cards read 51GH (quite low), and the pool topped at 2.5GH. Its now dropped back to zero again, whats going on? (I have a usb asic on the pool just fine)

edit 3: ive decided to spread my effort
worker 1- ghash.io port 3333    - nothing seen at pool
worker 2 - ghash.io port 3334 - nothing seen at pool
worker 3 - mint.bitminter.com - briefly 9GH, now nothing?

the reported hashrate at the bitfury webUI started at 70Gh and over 5min has slowly dropped to 25Gh. wtf is going on here?

  take bad hboard outside for few minutes then put back and run it.

ps: I got 2 hboards did same to me.

I dont think thats the issue - i already pulled the boards and downvolted them a little to 0.81V o see if they were getting voltage shutdowns/issues - no luck

Im at wits end and i hate to go to bed knowing my machine is doing nothing  I have restarted my router, my modem, my router again, the bitfury system several times, and the issue is the same:
- the bitfury webUI page is accessible
- Ive tried a few different pools (briefly had it work for about 1 minute then it stopped again)
- ive start/stop miner several times and confirmed all proxy info
- router is forwarding ports 3330-3340

EDIT: now its working again (cross fingers). I set ghash as worker 1 and slush as worker 2. both report hashrate. However, the proxy info is the same so i dont understand what possibly changed

[BTClobsta]

is there any live chat like maybe irc or something. i don't have a lot of time and as days goes by i lose out on the chance to mine.

[CoinHoarder]

is there any live chat like maybe irc or something. i don't have a lot of time and as days goes by i lose out on the chance to mine.

on the bottom of the bitfury user guide, it has an irc channel/server listed for support. OI can't think of it off the top of my head though.

Find the user guide under "mining support" sub forum in the OP of the thread: [guide] bitfury support/tuning