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POWER SUPPLYFINDING THE IP ADDRESS OF YOUR MINERSTATUS

MININGNETWORKINGSERVICESSECURITYUPPGRADE

HARD RESET

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POWER SUPPLY

01Ensure your miner is not connected to the power supply. As power suppliesare designed for machines with an on/off switch, you will need tojump the

power supply.

02Cut a paper clipand top it with electrical tape or a form of plastic electricalshielding.

03Use the paper clip or 24pin ATX bridge to connect pins 4 and 5next to the clipon the top of the 24pin connector.

04Connect the 4pin Molex to the controller board and the 6pin PCI-E connectorsas displayed in the image below.

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FINDING THE IP ADDRESS OF YOUR MINER

As the miner is by default using DHCP, it will automatically be assigned an IPaddress when first connected to your network. In order to identify the miners IPaddress you can use a sniffer tool like WireShark. Once the IP address has beenidentified, enter this into your web browserand enter the user name admin and

password admin.

STATUS

This screen displays the current status of the CGMiner process. Click the CheckStatusbutton to refresh.

MINING

This screen allows you to configure the miners parameters.Pool URL In this field you should enter the URL of your desired pool.Account This is your worker ID on the selected poolPassword This is the password for your selected worker

By default your miner will be set with CGMiner Remote Management disabled.

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NETWORKING

This screen allows you to configure the network settings of the miner.DHCP is set by default. To enable a static IP address uncheck this boxand enter thedesired settings.

SERVICES

This screen allows you to enable or disable SSH(Secure Shell) on the miner.The default login for SSH:Username= rootPassword= admin

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SECURITY

This screen allows you to reset the passwordused to enter the web interface. Pleasenote that if you change the password here, it will also change the password for theSSH access. However, if you change the password using SSH, this will only changethe password for SSH access.There is also the option to restart your miner from the web interface.

Please take time to read the disclaimerat the foot of this page.

UPGRADE

Through this screen you will be able to update your miners firmware. When anupdate is released it will be available for download on the KnCMiner website. Once

downloaded, simplybrowse to the file and hit Apply. This will automatically updatethe current firmware on the miner.

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HARD RESET

The miner is equipped with a hard reset button. This is located next to the powerinput on the controller board. To perform a hard reset on the miner you mustpress the button 5 times consecutively, wait 5 seconds, and thenpress the button afurther 5 times. Please note that the miner will not restart.