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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: Theboyz12 on February 18, 2019, 09:10:51 PM



Title: How to fix s9 the miner accidentally remove from power source while upgrading?
Post by: Theboyz12 on February 18, 2019, 09:10:51 PM
Do you know how to fix a s9 miner bootloop?
I accidentally remove the miner from the socket while upgrading I remove it from the socket because of the dashboard stuck.

Tried all resetting ways but until now the miner wasn't recognize anymore.

i search in the google and I found sd card flashing but i don't know how to make it work. Do you know how to flash the miner using sd card?


Title: Re: How to fix s9 the miner accidentally remove from power source while upgrading?
Post by: BitMaxz on February 18, 2019, 09:15:07 PM
Never heard someone success on flashing antminer s9 with SD card but I know some other way to fix this but you need a PICKIT 3 to reprogram the s9 control board.

Someone done this with t9 miner but I know it will also work on s9 miner.

You can check the repairing method below.

- repair a T9 + after a bad firmware (lost chain) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5032987.0)


Title: Re: How to fix s9 the miner accidentally remove from power source while upgrading?
Post by: mikeywith on February 18, 2019, 10:21:00 PM
that's only to fix the hash boards, it won't work for the control board.

he needs to flush it using an SD card.

download the tool from bitmain > https://service.bitmain.com/support/download?product=Flashing%20SD%20card%20with%20image

and then you will need the SD firmware which i can't seem to find on bitmain website, but i found this on the forum

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5029225.0

the guy has it uploaded somewhere

* i am not responsible for any damage caused by any of the files, DYOR and do this at your own risk

what i would do , is contact bitmain and ask them for the file, it would be safer that way.


Title: Re: How to fix s9 the miner accidentally remove from power source while upgrading?
Post by: Artemis3 on February 19, 2019, 11:38:01 PM
that's only to fix the hash boards, it won't work for the control board.

he needs to flush it using an SD card.

download the tool from bitmain > https://service.bitmain.com/support/download?product=Flashing%20SD%20card%20with%20image

and then you will need the SD firmware which i can't seem to find on bitmain website, but i found this on the forum

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5029225.0

the guy has it uploaded somewhere

* i am not responsible for any damage caused by any of the files, DYOR and do this at your own risk

what i would do , is contact bitmain and ask them for the file, it would be safer that way.

Or, place Braiins OS (https://braiins-os.org/) into an sd card, move jumper jp4 (https://docs.braiins-os.org/s9) and mine away!

Of course it would be better to fix the OS in the nand on the controller so you don't need to depend forever on the sd card.