\[RUNNING\] - My First Rig - Smos FTW

aatje92

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Another reason is the power consumption. - I’ve safed about 150W/h on 2 cards just cause I bought a new 1050W GOLD PSU. :)
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So when you use a better power supply (compare to no name), you make money?

Crazy.
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Well you dont make money you save money, from electricity and your computer not blowing up :p

I can’t get bamf 5.5 or 1.2 running right. 1.2 appears to work before it shows me a red screen saying that the gpu has errored.

Might try a linux boot

TheRedViper

i second the PSU advice :)
good luck with your setup, keep us updated!

Im trying an ubuntu usb boot but i can’t get the sdk’s and drivers installed.

gonna try do a windows 7 usb boot if that’s even possible

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I don’t suppose anyone is willing to help me out in BAMT… I’m running v1.2.

I am not completely sure what im doing wrong.

TheTribesman

These are the 2 guides I used when setting mine up.

[url=https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer]https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer[/url]
[url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

I’d suggest cgminer 3.1.1 though

[quote name=“TheTribesman” post=“47370” timestamp=“1387915188”]
These are the 2 guides I used when setting mine up.

[url=https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer]https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer[/url]
[url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

I’d suggest cgminer 3.1.1 though
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ok. I’ll have another crack at it after some sleep. ive been away for 20 hours now 10 of em at the computer. and the other computer… and the rig. it took only an hour to get it running but ive hit a brick wall with the OS.

I was thinking of just getting my external usb 3 hd and putting a windows 7 install on that and go the scrypt guiminer stratum / cgminer or what it was that cuda was built on. I’ll find out.

this aint over yet.

OK. with [url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

So far so good.

I had to fix my usb flash drive using diskpart inside windows. I was left 90% of my disk space unallocated from the bamt installs I attempted. I kept formatting to 500 meg and the other stick which i was trying to install xubuntu from didn’t really work on it.

So yeah. Fixed the USB drive. The Xubuntu boot on the other flash worked. Was able to allocate the space needed and now the install is finally working.

[quote]If youâ€™re using a USB stick that is exactly 8GB, the installer may complain about the default partition sizes being too small. Create a new partition table with these settings: 5500mb for root (/), 315mb for swap, and the remaining amount for home (/home). If youâ€™re using a USB stick larger than 8GB, you will not have to do this.[/quote]

Fingers crossed I get onto the Xubuntu desktop and from there I hope that ill finlay get the catalyst drivers installed using -

[code]sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates-dev
sudo aticonfig --lsa
sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
sudo reboot[/code]

Then “Step 4: Install SSH, Curl, and package updates” I’m not sure if i will even need this but ill try it anyways.

So if this all works and I can installer cgminer, all i need to worry about then is configuring the miner. That I should be ok with.

This looks to be the most promising attempt yet.

I’ll keep ye posted.

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It finished and said it was gona reboot but it didnt see it as a bootable device.

Gona go have some christmas lunch with friends… I’ll have another crack at it later.

Yeah I ran through the installation again and the same thing. It says it installed fine and needed a reboot, but it simply doesn’t see the install as a bootable device. I’ve tried booting it with and without the original usb installer.

It just won’t look at the bootable device.

I think I’m doing this bit wrong.

[quote]Create a new partition table with these settings: 5500mb for root (/), 315mb for swap, and the remaining amount for home (/home). If youâ€™re using a USB stick larger than 8GB, you will not have to do this.[/quote]

I’m not sure what settings the partitions need to be.

ERMAGERD

So ive got smos running… I’m back inside BAMT but this time the gpu is all good. Looks like the miners are running and hashing at 450khash/s but when I check my pool, It’s not registering.

One step closer.

So it’s back to BAMT using smos. I just need to get it pointed to the stratum at nut2pools now I think… It’s been a long 36 hours but I think I’m almost there.

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gpumon is showing that im accepting shares and i am hashing. I can even hear/see the gpu spin up.

Still figuring out where i need to drop in my cgminer stratum info / worker info.

O. M. G. I think im hashing… i thinkits alive… im gona let it run for about an hour and check to see if my shares are getting updated in the confirmed/unconfirmed section of nut2pools…

I’m not getting my hopes up… but i think its working!

[img]http://image.bayimg.com/3bc5175d59dbaacc31c8fb6b9f98c26e11394c16.jpg[/img]

aatje92

;D

TheTribesman

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O. M. G. I think im hashing… i thinkits alive… im gona let it run for about an hour and check to see if my shares are getting updated in the confirmed/unconfirmed section of nut2pools…

I’m not getting my hopes up… but i think its working!

[img]http://image.bayimg.com/3bc5175d59dbaacc31c8fb6b9f98c26e11394c16.jpg[/img]
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D

Oh yeah tribesman and uncle_muddy. Was meaning to give you this.

+1 rep

Thank you for pointing out that walk through and thank you for pointing out bamt.

It’s what ultimately led me to getting my rig going with Smos.

Once i’ve confirmed everthing is all good and also fully realise what I did and how I did it. I’ll try do my own guide for R9 270 OC using a usb thumb drive as the file system.

If i get good at this and get some good tweaks, I might even sell prebuilt/configed rigs.

But yeah, Once i know what’s going on. I’ll get a new topic going and offer up my conf files and links to smos etc.

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It looks all good. I’ve got nearly a whole ftc in my confirmed and I’ve only been running for an hour or so.

The mighty link that actualy got me up and running. It was incredably simply once i figured out what I was doing. I’ll be doing a guid for this over the next week.

[center][b][url=http://www.smos-linux.org/installation/]http://www.smos-linux.org/installation/[/url][/b][/center]

TheTribesman

Nice one! I know it’s a fight to get these rigs working, but I have to confess that I loved the challenge. Took me 2.5 days to build my rig, and it’s been a daily passion since then. Sometimes mining can take over your life for short periods of time (seriously!).
:D

mirrax

Ok, it seems Cryptobadger’s tutorial do not work, because it download old drivers.
This one might be worth to try:
[url=http://litecoinstuff.com/tutorials/how-to-configure-xubuntu-cgminer-and-r9-290x-gpus-to-mine-litecoin-and-altcoin]http://litecoinstuff.com/tutorials/how-to-configure-xubuntu-cgminer-and-r9-290x-gpus-to-mine-litecoin-and-altcoin[/url]

Isn’t SMOS scam stealing some of your mining power??

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Ok, it seems Cryptobadger’s tutorial do not work, because it download old drivers.
This one might be worth to try:
[url=http://litecoinstuff.com/tutorials/how-to-configure-xubuntu-cgminer-and-r9-290x-gpus-to-mine-litecoin-and-altcoin]http://litecoinstuff.com/tutorials/how-to-configure-xubuntu-cgminer-and-r9-290x-gpus-to-mine-litecoin-and-altcoin[/url]

Isn’t SMOS scam stealing some of your mining power??
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For now I’ll stick with SMOS just to test things out. What do you mean scam stealing power?

I’m pretty sure I can run the card faster, probably an extra 20khash/s. It needs tweaking.

Just checked my stats and it looks like I’ve just shy of 10 ftc overnight. The heat has stuck at 69 degrees. That was without the aircon switched on as well. So the rig handles one card without any extra box fan or aircon cooling.

Though I think at some stage, maybe not even to long ago, something got reset… In the wee hours of the morning i checked it and it said over 1200 shares accepted, but this morning it says 30 shares. I was reading that some miners stop mining if they go into power saving or standby… I don’t think SMOS would do this seeing as though it’s pre-configured for mining but I’m not sure.

I’m gonna let things run for a few days and keep an eye on stats.

aatje92

Nice! Just one tip, you shouldn’t put electronics on antistatic bags because the outside conducts and could short out your mobo / gpu. Just put them on their cardbord boxes ;).

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Nice! Just one tip, you shouldn’t but electronics on antistatic bags because the outside conducts and could short out your mobo / gpu. Just put them on their cardbord boxes ;).
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ffffffff

+1 rep

I’ve been doing that for years without thinking… Duly noted.

Thank you for the advice!

I now have guiminer-scrypt / cgminer within windows running my spare R9 270 @ 475kHash/s

–gpu-platform 0 -d 0 -w 256 -v 1 -I 19 -g 1 -l 1 -T --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1125 --thread-concurrency 16000

I’ll keep this updated if I can speed things up more in either SMOS or Windows.