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#82 ·
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So Scuba did you get everything figured out. As for the R-box locking up they do come across a bad WU from time to time and need a power cycle to get them running again. I see the mining site BTCguild must have went down for a hour or 2 I had over 300 invalid wu's today. I you want a R-3 bad enough make me a offer my wife doesn't want me running them all the time now that she knows I have them.
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Do you still have one you want to get rid of? I would be interested kinda sorta, but jut a student.
 
#86 ·
Can someone help me get my AntMiner U2s running again? My disk crashed and now I don't remember how I set it up. I think I don't have the right drivers.
 
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#87 ·
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Can someone help me get my AntMiner U2s running again? My disk crashed and now I don't remember how I set it up. I think I don't have the right drivers.
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I havnt messed with mine since I sold off my spare computer Id pm @Doc_Gonzo or @bfromcolo they might be able to help
 
#88 ·
I haven't run any Antminers since I sold them off to pay for the Rockminers. But if you think It's driver related, you may need to download and run Zadig
I also seem to remember running 1 work unit per miner using a cc_config file and changing the 'count' to however many miners you have. There is some info on that on the BU message boards
 
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#89 ·
Ok. Yea, I tried the Antminer drivers, and uninstalled those and tried the Zadig drivers. Using the "cgminer -ndevs -n" no USB devices found. I was also trying to find something in the forums. They talk about Rockminers alot. I luckily save all my config files to my Google Drive. I'll have to mess with some more, maybe this weekend. If I can find my old drive again maybe it will give me some clues. Not sure what happened, Windows was just really slow and all it does is sit there and run Minecraft and crunch BU asic units. I just replaced the drive and put a fresh install on the new drive over a month ago. Was afraid it may be dying...I've seen it happen at work.
 
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#90 ·
http://zadig.akeo.ie/

Pretty sure I just plugged it in and after it failed to find a driver I ran the utility from the link. Then I ended up reinstalling it a few times while moving from port to port on the back of the computer trying to get it recognized, which it eventually was, I don't think it liked the USB3 ports. It gets listed as a CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller. Then installed cgminer to verify it.

Once cgminer can see it you also need to add some lines to you cc_config file, see post 14 in this thread.

But now mine isn't working either. If I get some time I'll play around it and try to get it going again.

Good luck.
 
#91 ·
Ah ha! Maybe that is my issue. I have a powered 10 port USB3 hub..was using it before on that, but perhaps I had it in the USB 2 port instead of USB 3. Windows can see them, but cgminer does not. I'll try it this weekend. I've got a cert I am trying to finish and been really slacking on it. Wanted to finish it in June, and its almost September already.
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#92 ·
Have you got multiple miners in a Hub? That's the setup I had and it did take some messing around to get it working right. Using Zadig, click 'options' and 'list all devices'. If your device / Hub is being picked up and the drivers are installed, it should list something like 'USB to UART Bridge Controller'. I do remember having to restart my computer after installing the drivers via Zadig. On another occasion I had it working perfectly until I unplugged the Hub and plugged it back into the wrong USB port. plugging it back into the correct port refused to work and I had to go through the whole driver reinstall again. It can be very faffy to get right but if you can find my thread on the message boards, I received some good help and advice there
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Edit to add - sorry didn't; see your post before mine!
 
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#93 ·
I got my miner running again by just moving it between different USB ports until it was recognized. I went to the BU website to see what projects were available and was surprised to see that there are only 3 currently running:

Campaign #3: MilkyWay@home - Part 3 (59%)
Campaign #9: The Woodward Effect (67%)
Campaign #10: SRBase - Part 2 (89%)
 
#94 ·
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That's what it was. The cgminer drivers aren't compatible with USB3 ports it seems. My miners are blinking now that I moved the hub to a USB2 port, so it means they are working. Torn between buy a few more Antiminers U2 or running my Butterflys. Not really sure I want to put more money into this BTC fad.
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#96 ·
I am trying to get my Antminer going again. I haven't tried since upgrading to Windows 10. When I plug in the Antminer, Windows immediately installed the correct driver I think.

Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM4)

But when I try to test the device I get an error.

D:\cgminer\cgminer-4.7.0-windows>cgminer --ndevs -n
[2016-03-01 09:05:44] USB all: found 13 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 2 Device 7 ID: 10c4:ea60
** dev 0: Failed to open, err -12
[2016-03-01 09:05:44] 1 known USB devices

Anyone have any ideas? I am utterly clueless about this thing.

Edit - I got it going. I figured I didn't need to run that Zadig program since Windows saw the device correctly. But I went ahead and ran it and replaced the driver Windows provided, and now it is recognized.

D:\cgminer\cgminer-4.7.0-windows>cgminer --ndevs -n
[2016-03-01 09:14:40] USB all: found 13 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 2 Device 8 ID: 10c4:ea60
Manufacturer: 'Silicon Labs'
Product: 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller'
[2016-03-01 09:14:40] 1 known USB devices

Edit #2 - guess I celebrated my success too soon. First wu timed out after 2 hours and the second one looks like it is going to do the same.
 
#97 ·
I was considering digging out my old BOINC rig that was running 4x HD5850's so I could join in a few BOINCers Gone Bonkers again, but wanted to try and keep power costs down and I saw this thread about using ASIC miners.

How does ASIC GH/s impact credits per hour?

I have access to a couple U2 miners - what kind of credits would they achieve? At ~3W, I'd def prefer using these things compared to GPUs if I can get decent credits per hour
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#98 ·
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I was considering digging out my old BOINC rig that was running 4x HD5850's so I could join in a few BOINCers Gone Bonkers again, but wanted to try and keep power costs down and I saw this thread about using ASIC miners.

How does ASIC GH/s impact credits per hour?

I have access to a couple U2 miners - what kind of credits would they achieve? At ~3W, I'd def prefer using these things compared to GPUs if I can get decent credits per hour
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I have a couple U2 miners too. Rule of thumb, 1Mil credits per GH per day. When I had them running, I was getting about 3Mil a day with the two of them.
Realize though that the Bitcoin Utopia projects are fund raisers, and don't directly contribute to research. Still need to use a GPU if you wanted to do something like Milkyway@Home or POEM@Home.
 
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#99 ·
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I have a couple U2 miners too. Rule of thumb, 1Mil credits per GH per day. When I had them running, I was getting about 3Mil a day with the two of them.
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Not bad for <5w!
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Realize though that the Bitcoin Utopia projects are fund raisers, and don't directly contribute to research. Still need to use a GPU if you wanted to do something like Milkyway@Home or POEM@Home.
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What do you mean fund raisers? Are you saying that they don't actually compute WU for the projects in the OP, they just raise BC for them and you get given credit back from the project in return for the BC?
 
#100 ·
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Not bad for <5w!
What do you mean fund raisers? Are you saying that they don't actually compute WU for the projects in the OP, they just raise BC for them and you get given credit back from the project in return for the BC?
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Yes, exactly. When Milkyway needed money to keep going, I started crunching BU. It just does pool mining, just like any other BTC pool. BoincStats needed replacement hardware...there was some ones that I was less interested in doing, such as raising money to print a book (GoFundMe comes to mind)... but no research is actually done. U2 miners and the like only do one thing, hash encryption algorithums. Can't do anything else. They're like an idiot savant.
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