Having some issues with my 3 new blades.
Have them set to connect to 2 IPs on my network running stratum proxies.  I've set the proxies to connect to both slush's pool and btcguild but they're still having this issue.

For a little while yesterday all 3 blades were running great at 10.7ghash each.  At this point, however, they display much lower hashes from 4-7 k and are not returning a large amount of shares after receiving them.

When I monitor my stratum proxies, it appears that the blades go on with their work, then at a random time after asking for work or submitting a share, the miner pauses, quits, and connects to the other pool in its config for no apparent reason.  The miners keep doing this and keep switching between the 2 IPs I have in their configs.  Apparently, they work for a little while on one computer's stratum proxy, stop sending back shares, then connect to the other computer's stratum proxy and repeat the process.  

Another weird thing is that when I set the miners to connect to one proxy by repeating the IP address in their config, they don't really work at all.  They appear to receive 8 shares then don't really do anything for a few minutes then reset.  Once I specify 2 different pool addresses in the config, the miners properly connect and begin to do work.

Not sure what is going on here, wondering if anyone could give some advice?


Edit: After reading vesperwillow's post from yesterday, it sounds like we could maybe be having the same issue?

 Mountain, Please add some pictures to aid in understanding what you mean please. Pictures are worth more than a 1,000 words =P

Please post some pictures of your config menu when you are connected.

Also, are you using two different IP's on each blade? or are you using 1 specific proxy for each individual blade? For example: or is it like this for one blade: ?


Vlad, No. I didn't need to touch the reset pins at all, unless you are actually trying to reset them by "shorting" them out by applying some conductive material across 1-2pin(reset) 2-3pin(factory reset).

Can you also supply me with a link of the PSU or a picture? Hard to help you out man without knowing what PSU you got =) Thanks

Other Info:
How many blades do you have?
Model Specs of your PSU?
Anything else I might need to help troubleshoot?

Here is a picture of my config for one of the blades, I'm using two different proxy IPs on each blade.  If I use the same proxy IP twice on a blade, it appears to receive 8 shares then return little or none of them:
http://s23.postimg.org/kgdvdt4ez/miner.jpg

Here is a picture of what happens when I use a single proxy IP in the miner config:
http://s18.postimg.org/7070dzi9l/miner2.jpg


Thanks!

Edit: I also notice back on page 34 that people were reporting low speeds and the miners switching between pools randomly.  It sounds like I'm probably having the same issue .

What specifically did you do to get it working?  Please share.  You may help others with your experience.

Eligius supports both getwork and stratum. Is it more efficient to set up a stratum proxy for the blade, or go direct to Eligius getwork?

I tried that before, same IP/user info twice for main and backup always seem to restart the blade within an hour. I can try again to see if it will act any different now.

What's the deal with BFG supporting blade? How does that even work since it would never be running on the blade itself.

I ordered this...  http://www.amazon.com/850WATT-Redundant-Power-Supply-DPS800GBA/dp/B004MU7MEQ/ref=pd_cp_pc_3

It hasn't arrived yet so I don't know if it's as simple as plug-and-play.  But you can't beat the price!

Couldn't get more simple than the PSU above.  The blade gets the power directly from the backplane... no mo' molex!

Is anyone selling one of those backplane by itself? I'd like to start building on it. Already have 3 gen2 blades and couple more coming in.