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 Specifications

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.eastshoremining.com/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.eastshoremining.com/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.