This tutorial is intended for the Antminer G1 Ethereum Miner of NVIDIA GTX1060 GPU Miner which supports multi-currency mining including ETH, Zcash, XMR and so on. This Antminer G1 Ethereum GPU Miner is a BITMAIN customized product that supports multi-currency mining including ETH, Zcash, XMR and so on. It hits a speed of 200MH for ETH mining with EIGHT NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 video cards which makes it undoubtedly a pioneer machine in the field.
Miner Specifics
- Brand: Antminer G1
- Hash Rate: 200MHash ±10% for ETH mining
- Power Consumption: 1200w max
- Operating System: CentOS 7.0 (Linux)
- Network Connection: Ethernet
- PSU: NO PSU, a PSU > 1300w (with 6PIN x 7) Needed.
Preparations
The following background knowledge would be helpful to use the miner:
- Knowledge regarding GPU and the GPU miners.
- Knowledge regarding how to mine with a PC and how to mine with a video card.
- Knowledge regarding CentOS 7.0 or Linux operating system.
- Knowledge regarding ETH/ETC/ZEC or any others cryptocurrencies coins you are interested.
- Knowledge regarding cryptocurrency such as wallet address, mining pools etc.
Get Your PSU Ready
- The miner comes with NO PSU. You need to get a PSU(ATX PSU) > 1300w with 6PIN x 7 for the miner.
- The Antminer APW3++ PSU does NOT support this miner. You need to get an ATX PC power supply for the miner. We use the EVGA SuperNOVA 1600w PSU in our test.
- Setting up PSU: check our PSU tutorial for the ATX PSU setting up (section {Setting up PSU: ATX PSU} in the tutorial): https://www.eastshore.xyz/tutorial-setting-up-your-bitcoin-mining-power-supply/
Miner Connection
- This is the miner you will receive from EastShore.
- Setting up your ATX PSU: https://www.eastshore.xyz/tutorial-setting-up-your-bitcoin-mining-power-supply/
- A monitor is required (and a keyboard, a mouse) for configuration. (only needed when you configure the miner).
- All the ports needed are on one side of the miner.
- The ports needed are:
- HDMI port: for the monitor connection
- USB port x 2: for the keyboard and mouse connection
- Ethernet port
- Connect your monitor, keyboard, the mouse and the Ethernet cord to the miner.
- Connect your ATX PSU to the miner via 6PIN ports.
- Tah-dah, connection done.
Start Mining in ONE Minutes
- Power on your PSU, then power on the miner.
- Wait for 3 ~ 5 minutes, then the operating system will start.
- The mining system of the miner is the “CentOS 7.0” operating system. Generally, the operating system will start automatically, and the Desktop will show.
- However, in some case, there may be an error occurred during the system starting. Don’t worry, just clicking the “Log Out” as in the following picture.
- Then clicking the user “zrt” and input the password “a” to log in.
- The pre-installed mining software “WanyMiner” will start automatically after 1 minute the operating system started.
- Start mining by: clicking “Stop Mining” –> set your own mining information such as “Wallet Adress” etc. –> clicking “Start Mining“.
- You can also switch the mining currency in the software. The ETH, ETC, ZEC are all supported by “WanyMiner”.
- The mining speed and details will also show in the software.
Troubleshoot
Q: The hashing speed is lower than usual(eg. 100MH/s for ETH). / There are only 7 (or less) GPU works, not all the eight.
A:
- First, please make sure if all the video cards are working.
- Right-click on the desktop, click “Open Terminal” on the pop-up menu.
- In the pop-up windows, input command “lspci | grep -i vga“
- There should be EIGHT Nvidia GTX1060 video cards details shown in the windows
- If there are not EIGHT Nvidia GTX1060 video cards shown, then maybe some video cards in the case loosened up during shipping.
- In that case, power off the miner first, open the case of the miner to insert those video cards properly and tightly.
- There are some screws on the case of the miner.
- Take the screws out, and slide out the case.
- There are eight video cards in the miner. Please make sure all the cards and cables inserted tightly.
- Power on the miner again to check if all the video cards appear. The problem would be solved.
