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Title: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 01, 2015, 09:38:39 PM
Does anyone know
How Incan install at empty sd card firmware for bitmain s2???

Any steps by steps details


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: dimke_yu on July 01, 2015, 09:47:29 PM
Do you have microsd card reader and on which OS are you?


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 01, 2015, 09:50:23 PM
Windows xp yes micro sd


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: notlist3d on July 01, 2015, 09:57:29 PM
Does anyone know
How Incan install at empty sd card firmware for bitmain s2???

Any steps by steps details

Here is a good resource for making the microSD card - https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204339655-How-to-create-a-bootable-MicroSD-card-with-factory-setting-

Let us know how it goes.


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 01, 2015, 10:08:32 PM
Where I can find the link of these image file
To downloaded??


A8

We will use Bitmain Antminer S2 image: antMiner_A8_20140410.img



Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: Xian01 on July 01, 2015, 10:47:32 PM
Where I can find the link of these image file
To downloaded??
A8
We will use Bitmain Antminer S2 image: antMiner_A8_20140410.img
Might this be it ?

https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=00720140413044945482bs4xshkh072D


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 01, 2015, 11:04:40 PM
No is not

I need image file


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: notlist3d on July 01, 2015, 11:15:49 PM
Where I can find the link of these image file
To downloaded??


A8

We will use Bitmain Antminer S2 image: antMiner_A8_20140410.img



I don't see it I do see someone who claimed to upload a mirror of thiers. - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=518205.msg6221783#msg6221783


After having no setup issues and running great for the last couple of weeks, I woke up this morning to find my batch 1 AntMiner S2 not hashing, fans going full speed, panel dim and the red light solid. Recalling that others here have had the same issue, I went back and skimmed over the previous posts and found that the likely issue was probably a corrupt SD card. That was indeed the case, as I am now back up and running, and I figure the problem started when a brief power outage occurred here this morning. Thought I would briefly summarize what I did to recover, which may be of special interest to those folks using a Mac to write to their SD cards:

- ran to the store and bought a 4gb Sandisk microSD card. They didn't have any class 10 cards, only class 4, but it seems to work (ordered a couple class 10s from Amazon for backup).
- Downloaded onto my MacBook the latest firmware from the bitmaintech website, as well as the SD card image from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16075357/bitmain.img.zip (thanks 1l1l11ll1l)
- put the new microSD card in the adapter, shoved it into my MacBook, read through the guide at http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup, and then ran these commands in Terminal:
   cd Desktop (my bitmain.img was on the desktop)
   diskutil list (to find the disk name of SD card, mine was disk2, so replace disk2 below with what yours is)
   diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
   sudo dd bs=1m if=bitmain.img of=/dev/disk2 (this took 30 minutes to complete)
- once SD card was ready, I opened up the AntMiner, pulled out the BeagleBone card, swapped SD cards and reassembled
- powered up, and it started hashing again. Connected to the miner from the browser, uploaded the latest firmware, changed to point to my pool, and everything was golden.

Much thanks to all of previous posters that talked about this issue, as your help got me back up in hours as opposed to days.


Let me know if that works for you.


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: dimke_yu on July 02, 2015, 09:16:17 AM
Where I can find the link of these image file
To downloaded??


A8

We will use Bitmain Antminer S2 image: antMiner_A8_20140410.img



Try with this one https://mega.nz/#!clFRRKLT!29A5ia8cuoMgKKmSKdgsBDeIwAkeoJ1W9NFQ13mhBzw (https://mega.nz/#!clFRRKLT!29A5ia8cuoMgKKmSKdgsBDeIwAkeoJ1W9NFQ13mhBzw)


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 02, 2015, 11:31:45 PM
Thanks a lot

Eυχαριστώ πoλυ


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: notlist3d on July 03, 2015, 02:50:31 AM
Thanks a lot

Eυχαριστώ πoλυ


Thanks for letting us know your miner is fixed now.  Have fun mining!



Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: dimke_yu on July 03, 2015, 09:07:50 AM
Thanks a lot

Eυχαριστώ πoλυ


Your welcome :) happy hashing!


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: jelin1984 on July 03, 2015, 09:19:40 AM
haha i will do

but prefer hashing with my titans ::) ::) ::)


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: dimke_yu on July 03, 2015, 10:48:45 AM
Scrypt mining naaaaaaaaah that is for kids :D SHA256D to the infinity and beyond


Title: Re: Does bitmain s2
Post by: -droid- on July 03, 2015, 06:36:49 PM
Scrypt mining naaaaaaaaah that is for kids :D SHA256D to the infinity and beyond

Or do both and diversify :-)