Hi everyone. Im new to grin mining. I seem to be having issues with my miner. It will mine for a bit and than all activities will stop. And need to rest. Pleade help.
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I’m going to assume your issue is with an iPollo ASIC. Be sure it’s not overheating, verify all fans are operational and pushing air in the same direction. Consider reapplying thermal paste to the heatsink (remove old paste, clean with rubbing alcohol, power blow surfaces, apply thin layer of new). You can flash the firmware by microSD card to the latest version G2.54. Swapping a failing PSU with a functional PSU, preferably 20A or better (this solution being best). And finally, if none of the aforementioned works, you can change the control board.
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Yes, your right, its the G1 mini. Ok ill try you advise. Thank you.
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I second what he said about the SD card firmware. 99% of the time flashing it with SD V2.54 clears out whatever troubles.
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Do u know where i can find the firmware. It was mining then . After a bit it stops Processing: 1000008958.jpg…
Mining also got this issue. Still new with this machine and its 2nd hand.
See the link posted before for the firmware 
I could say the G1 mini chip is hard to be dead. Just try to change the power adapter.
Yes, good thinking, swapping a failing PSU can sometimes resolve when a mini isn’t mining. Going to revise my post to include this method too, to be comprehensive.
Hey. So finally its working properly and
i can see my hashrate. Before the socket was blocked. Now everything is running smooth. Found 2 blocks in 2 days. Before it crapped out. Thanks for your help and support.
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So, i did all the updates. I think i cheered to fast. It will work for 10 mins then juat stop mining. Takes multiple power ups and power downs to get it to rest. Annoying. Lol. Any idea. Neo
I did buy the one of aliexpress. We will try cheap way first. And if that fails control board is next. I opened it up. It was dirty. I bought it 2nd hand. I got screwed.
As far as troubleshooting, have you only updated firmware so far, and did you install v2.54 by microSD card (not via Ethernet)? Next would be to try what you haven’t tried, from the potential solutions we’ve provided.
my miner is as dirty as shiiiit and it’s still working. if the board is not stable, there are 2 chances. 1 is overheat, 2 is the power adapter is malfunctioned. It’s really rare that control board is having issue.
Hey. Thanks for your assistance. I did go and by a control board anyways. Paid a couple hundred. If that fails then power supply. If its just the power supply. At least ill have an extra board. Lol thanks again. And i bought a new G1 miner as well. My house is insane with home miners. I have about 16 machines. Lol. All different algorithms.
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I could have sold you a control board for under $100 lol. If you do buy a power supply consider purchasing one from me. I sell Mean Well industrial PSUs for Grin mining and have one in stock. I guarantee it’ll cost less than the $100 Ipollo brick or gambling on a random power brick that might fail.