Project Update

[Dataman]

Why do I keep getting the feeling this is just all smoke and mirrors?
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-core-ethereum-hard-fork-unsettling-precedent/

[chooka03]

Ah Kashi, your broken miner has suffered the same fate as mine. Purple/white light stuck on.
I try plugging it in every so often but nothing changes. I've played with the voltage...nothing. I think it's a goner.

If mine die, I won't replace then. I'll just revert to go ol crunching.

Have a good weekend all 

[chooka03]

Uh Oh...seems another one of my miners has kicked the bucket 
2/5 now no good. Bit of a waste of money I'm thinking.

[chooka03]

Unbelievable........... :angry: It looks like yet ANOTHER miner has died!
I'm now left with 2 out of 5.
What a rip off these things were. They are just sitting in a power USB hub...I'm not doing anything with them.
Not happy!!

[Dingo]

I must have gotten a good bunch , touch wood, as all four of mine are crunching away in a powered hub without any input from me.  Not to say that they won't crash tomorrow, because I put in this post   

[Dataman]

All 14 of mine work as well as the 2 ants. Been shutting down during the day and running at night due to the current heat wave. Hopefully cooler weather next week

[chooka03]

Well I have no idea why mine are dying  ???
Having said that...Kashi - The one that had the light stuck on (purple) has resurrected itself last night after being buggered for what?.........1-2 months.
I don't think it will last though.

My other 2 which don't work, One has voltage going to it but no action...the other has no voltage & no action.

I give up lol.

[Dataman]

 
I got a refund from China on my U3's. It took <24 hours to debit my account but >2 weeks to credit it.   At least they did refund the amount.

I tried to run some asteroid CPU's with a gecko array and the miners went offline. Asteroids took ALL the CPU and the miners could not get any. I have the same problem with the GPU's on asteroids. They take so much GPU that I can't run video.
Still too damn hot here. We may get a break in the heat wave on Monday.


EDIT: I gave up on Asteroids and tried to run some POGS with the miners ... POGS is out of work. Which line do I stand in to surrender? 

[Dingo]

I have gone back to SETI because POGS is out of work and my Gecko's work with it and I am running Collatz on my one GPU that I have running. 

[chooka03]

Oh...thats interesting to hear that the Gecko's work on something other than BU!
Thanks guys 

[Dataman]

Oh...thats interesting to hear that the Gecko's work on something other than BU!
Thanks guys  

They do not. They only mine Bitcoins.
Let me rephrase. Since I started mining, I have not been running any CPU projects. Each miner takes something less than .1 CPU but an array of 7 take over half. Asteroids is very CPU intensive and takes 100% if it can get it (same with its GPU). What is happening when I run Asteroids on the CPU's is when a miner tries to start a new task there is no CPU resources available and the miner can not start. It looks like it is running but is not doing anything (stops flashing). This does not happen with POGS and I assume with most other CPU projects. I have always had problems with Asteroids and some GPU projects that use a lot of CPU with the GPU. The GPU task tries to start but does not have enough CPU so it gets a comp error. This has also happened when I've tried Asteroids with vBox CPU projects. I got some POGS resends yesterday and they ran fine with the miners.
I am not running any CPU's until I finish 100 million at PG on the GPU's (end of Aug.). Just running 10 GPU's and the miners because of the heat. 10F drop in the heat today and next week looks good

[Dingo]

Yes not running the Gecko's on projects other than Bitcoin but with other projects on CPU.  Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly the first time 

[JugNut]

Yea i'm with you guys there are just some projects that use way to many system resources that interfere with the miners operation. I've been crunching POGS with little if any problem but then when POGS ran out of work I switched to SR-Base then almost straight away I started having  problems with my miners starting to slow right down or just stopping altogether, with the gekko's worst affected.

Also the LLR based tasks which are similar to ones used at Prime Grid seem to play havoc with my main cruncher. I was running 14 threads of POGS but when I tried the same with SR-Base tasks it took only a few hours to crash the system.  When I restarted I noticed the CPU running at close to 80 degs. Since i'd never crunched SR-Base before I started looking into a bit & it seems their tasks use the CPU's AVX function so I started only running 8 threads as its a 8 core/16 thread CPU but even that was to much for the system and it crashed again.  I been running the same overclock almost ever since I owned it but now have had to run it at stock just to keep things going. This is the most dramatic effect I've had from any CPU tasks at any project, err ever.  Even my other PC's are hurting too and are at there limit heat wise,  i'm not sure if it's just these tasks or all SR-Base tasks but they really draw a lot a juice & heat the CPU well above normal.  If this keeps up i'll just move to another project.  They do give very decent credit through if you can cope with the heat, but still not worth cooking your CPU is it?

[chooka03]

Ah thank you for the clarification.
Something else that interferes with a ASIC miner...... a VPN.
My tasks are all invalid if I have my VPN on. Really screws with them.

[Dataman]

The moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligned with Mars ... and I got my best day ever with  312,594,442  BOINC credits. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE