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Title: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: big_daddy on October 22, 2018, 01:00:51 PM Really interesting news for everyone that owns Antminer S9 ASIC miners and other Bitmain BM1387-based models like the Antminer R4, S9i, S9j, T9 and T9+.
Bitmain has officially released a firmware to activate the so called “Overt AsicBoost” for Antminer S9 Bitcoin ASIC miners and will have the firmware for Antminer R4, S9i, S9j, T9 and T9+ within a week as well. This comes just a few days after the announcement that Braiins OS might actually bring users support for Overt AsicBoost. According to Braiins the activation of the “Overt AsicBoost” functionality on S9 can bring down the power consumption by about 13% which is more than welcome at the current market situation for any miner using Antminer S9 Bitcoin ASICs. https://blog.bitmain.com/en/new-firmware-activate-overt-asicboost-bm1387-antminer-models/ Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: PeaMine on October 22, 2018, 03:44:08 PM About time huh?
Good way for them to clear out their old inventory now and why they stopped dropping pricing perhaps. I have one machine testing it out, so far so good. It also seems their antpool went offline and is having a lot of rejects as of 10 hours ago or so. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Gabrics on October 22, 2018, 04:17:53 PM New firmware seems to be not compatible with Slush pool (I assume asicboost braiin != asicboost bitmain). Everything gets rejected by Slush with new Bitmain firmware. Will try with Antpool.
Has anyone measured actual power consumption usage with the new fw.? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: kilchar on October 22, 2018, 05:05:09 PM New firmware seems to be not compatible with Slush pool (I assume asicboost braiin != asicboost bitmain). Everything gets rejected by Slush with new Bitmain firmware. Will try with Antpool. Has anyone measured actual power consumption usage with the new fw.? On my S9 13.5 Th consumption decreased by 200 watts Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on October 22, 2018, 05:41:48 PM Here are my findings. See images.
I only tested 3 machines all s9s. All produced similar savings. 12 times (111.7 A- 109.2 A)=30W savings per machine or in % 2.2% savings https://imgur.com/a/7z47inN Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 22, 2018, 06:16:28 PM Tested a 14TH S9 that was received a year ago.
Before stats: https://puu.sh/BPf97/1e419d2a52.png (https://puu.sh/BPf97/1e419d2a52.png) https://puu.sh/BPfaT/ba8e088c5d.jpg (https://puu.sh/BPfaT/ba8e088c5d.jpg) After stats: https://puu.sh/BPfc0/5d4e8f9dfa.png (https://puu.sh/BPfc0/5d4e8f9dfa.png) https://puu.sh/BPfdu/a3c6f33b6f.jpg (https://puu.sh/BPfdu/a3c6f33b6f.jpg) Items of note: All cards are running at exactly the same auto-frequency. Power is down a lot, almost 15%. Chips are running a bit cooler, fans are running a bit slower This puts the "At-the-way" power efficiency of S9s at 0.088j/GH This is with LPM Checked - although the checkbox doesn't appear to do anything For those preferring fixed-frequency, the minerAdvanced.cgi non-menu page is still there, but only appears to set the top speed for auto-searching. (However, any fixed frequency values previously specified are carried over, and often appear to be modifiable without reverting to auto-freq) (5) of (119) miners had problems upgrading, likely due to having older controller cards. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: rifleman74 on October 22, 2018, 06:21:38 PM 1 Amp down helps....and looks like similar TH output!
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hockeybum on October 22, 2018, 06:43:41 PM I can also confirm that all shares are rejected at slushpool with or without LPM checked. I have also seen that bmminer has been modified with this LPM update.
For those that are doing power and hashrate analysis, is this with or without LPM checked? I'm trying to determine if you are getting more hashrate with less power while in low power mode. Also, if someone can do analysis with and without LPM checked that would be helpful. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 22, 2018, 06:52:13 PM I can also confirm that all shares are rejected at slushpool with or without LPM checked. I have also seen that bmminer has been modified with this LPM update. For those that are doing power and hashrate analysis, is this with or without LPM checked? I'm trying to determine if you are getting more hashrate with less power while in low power mode. Also, if someone can do analysis with and without LPM checked that would be helpful. With (and I've updated the post to reflect that). About to try without and see what happens. Update: Toggling the LPM checkbox and applying appeared to have no impact. e.g. Power and performance stayed the same. Power cycling now to see if that changes things. Update2: Power usage is identical with and without the LPM button being selected. Might be normal statistical variations, but performance might be SLIGHTLY (like 75GH) faster with it selected. Running a few more cycles of the test to be sure. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 22, 2018, 07:36:50 PM NOTE: ASICBoost FW is not compliant with the BIP310 standard, thus incompatible (for now) with pools other than the Bitmain owned/controlled pools. So, until the other pools adopt compatibility, all this does is make the Bitmain...not Bitcoin...network stronger.
I refuse to use Bitmain controlled pools, so it's a "no go" for me until broad adoption. That shouldn't be long, however. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: kano on October 22, 2018, 07:45:57 PM NOTE: ASICBoost is not compliant with the BIP310 standard, thus incompatible (for now) with pools other than the Bitmain owned/controlled pools. So, until the other pools adopt compatibility, all this does is make the Bitmain...not Bitcoin...network stronger. I refuse to use Bitmain controlled pools, so it's a "no go" for me until broad adoption. That shouldn't be long, however. Not sure what drugs you been smoking, or who told you that, but that's not correct. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 22, 2018, 08:20:30 PM Then don't take my word for it...yet...
FROM SLUSHPOOL NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT: Quote from: Slush Pool Attention miners: DON'T UPGRADE your S9 devices with the new Bitmain firmware Dear Miners, we strongly recommend you DON'T UPGRADE your S9 devices with the new Bitmain firmware Antminer-S9-LPM-20181022. It is not compatible with BIP310 standard and as a result also not compatible with Slush Pool. We are working hard on providing our own fix asap and will keep you posted. Your Slush Pool Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 22, 2018, 08:24:39 PM NOTE: ASICBoost is not compliant with the BIP310 standard, thus incompatible (for now) with pools other than the Bitmain owned/controlled pools. So, until the other pools adopt compatibility, all this does is make the Bitmain...not Bitcoin...network stronger. I refuse to use Bitmain controlled pools, so it's a "no go" for me until broad adoption. That shouldn't be long, however. Maybe incompatible on Slushpool, but working fine on Kano (www.kano.is). Come on over and enjoy the 15% power savings and quieter mining. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: taserz on October 22, 2018, 08:41:46 PM Come on over and enjoy the 15% power savings and quieter mining. Already working on overclocking this new quieter and more efficient one to remove that quiet aspect and increase hashrate. S9 vacuum cleaner being built as we speak Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 22, 2018, 08:56:00 PM Already working on overclocking this new quieter and more efficient one to remove that quiet aspect and increase hashrate. S9 vacuum cleaner being built as we speak Been there already <smile>: https://puu.sh/BPk13/ee13a2108a.png (https://puu.sh/BPk13/ee13a2108a.png) Unit pulled 1405 watts at that setting with the new firmware. Obviously it clocks fine, but other things must be changed to achive the full speed. Of course, power efficiency is not as good. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 22, 2018, 10:22:31 PM Maybe incompatible on Slushpool, but working fine on Kano (www.kano.is). Come on over and enjoy the 15% power savings and quieter mining. Perhaps, but that still doesn't make Bitmain's FW (or your pool) right/correct or protocol compliant... Want more info on WHY it's not compliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp28koBxMg Skip to 23:45 for specific protocol/pool compliance information. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 22, 2018, 10:31:19 PM Perhaps, but that still doesn't make Bitmain's FW (or your pool) right/correct or protocol compliant... Want more info on WHY it's not compliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp28koBxMg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp28koBxMg) Skip to 23:45 for specific protocol/pool compliance information. Compliant as defined by Slush? Bitcoin is open source - "Compliant" just means the majority of people support it. Otherwise its just another Proposal... you know? The "P" in "BIP"??? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 23, 2018, 01:42:23 AM Working on ck's pool.
I haven't measured draw but my s9 is running cooler temps than before. I was getting over 13.7th prior and since have slowly dropped to 13.6th with no changes last hour. Everything is stock except fan speed is a static to 90%. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MrMaxwell on October 23, 2018, 01:51:05 AM I thought ASIC BOOST was supposed to give increased pool side hash rate?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 23, 2018, 02:19:37 AM Compliant as defined by Slush? Bitcoin is open source - "Compliant" just means the majority of people support it. Otherwise its just another Proposal... you know? The "P" in "BIP" ??? Ah...looked up BIP310 specs...authored by Slush devs (Braiins). I get it. Thought it was an established protocol, not just one they had been using. Thx. Mine on. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: philipma1957 on October 23, 2018, 02:21:29 AM I thought ASIC BOOST was supposed to give increased pool side hash rate? Depends it may simply keep hash flat and drop power 10-15% Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Kalyst69 on October 23, 2018, 06:22:56 AM New firmware published by bitmain and working with Slushpool
https://service.bitmain.com.cn/support/download?product=Antminer%20S9 https://twitter.com/Antminer_main/status/1054611067496591360 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 23, 2018, 08:34:32 AM New firmware published by bitmain and working with Slushpool https://service.bitmain.com.cn/support/download?product=Antminer%20S9 https://twitter.com/Antminer_main/status/1054611067496591360 has anyone tested it yet? Would be great to get 10% of to power draw Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: taserz on October 23, 2018, 11:09:35 AM Been there already <smile>: https://puu.sh/BPk13/ee13a2108a.png Unit pulled 1405 watts at that setting with the new firmware. Obviously it clocks fine, but other things must be changed to achive the full speed. Of course, power efficiency is not as good. That's not a good hashrate for 750mhz unless this was a 13.5 unit but even then that is pretty low. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: big_daddy on October 23, 2018, 12:57:59 PM if you have the C5 boards on your Antminer the firmware is not compatible with your machine :-\ :-\ :-\
https://i.imgur.com/tCeP9pc.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/tCeP9pc.jpg) so, my results are just the same as yesterday :'( :'( :'( Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 23, 2018, 03:04:09 PM if you have the C5 boards on your Antminer the firmware is not compatible with your machine :-\ :-\ :-\ https://i.imgur.com/tCeP9pc.jpg so, my results are just the same as yesterday :'( :'( :'( this from early batches too bad, I've got some of them too Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on October 23, 2018, 04:03:09 PM Hi! I test that!
Batch 13.5Th original at 668mhz (with my custom set) : 14.10Th ===> 1400W, 95/90/90 degree LPC: 14.10Th (at 668mhz) ===> 1220W, 88/85/85 degree All in the same place, on the same pool, and at the same fan speed (fixed) For me the test is conclusive! that said, the ASICBOOST is contained in the BMMINER (to my avi) because it is suprimer when the replace bmminer ... little flaw = the overall hashrate seems to increase ... it seems that many S9 have re-booting lol Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 23, 2018, 04:24:45 PM how exactly do we turn the AsicBoost on/off? I set that LPM to be checked and my miners lost hash rate - dropped from 13.8 range to the 13.3 range. I do not have a way to measure power consumption though.
I then set the LPM to not be selected and miners increased back to 13.8 range. Is the LPM selected going to give me a lower hash rate but at a higher efficiency so essentially more profitable? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on October 23, 2018, 05:41:49 PM All this is strange, this ASICBOOST just seems to disable the useless thing to the minor ... Moreover "the code" of the switch LPC is a code that speaks to me much as for the S7 ... I do not say more for the moment I continue my search tomorrow ...
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 23, 2018, 09:18:15 PM I have put this fw on 5 machines so far and have seen almost no difference in power or hash, im really confused how you guys are getting so much out of it and im not
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: m3hm3t on October 23, 2018, 09:24:39 PM I have put this fw on 5 machines so far and have seen almost no difference in power or hash, im really confused how you guys are getting so much out of it and im not Just check out your control boards if C5.. that's why you have no difference from new fm. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 23, 2018, 09:34:28 PM Just check out your control boards if C5.. that's why you have no difference from new fm. These are newer 14th machines, they dont have the first gen control board. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 23, 2018, 09:35:58 PM These are newer 14th machines, they dont have the first gen control board. have you checked the LPM and no difference ? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 23, 2018, 10:53:03 PM That's not a good hashrate for 750mhz unless this was a 13.5 unit but even then that is pretty low. I know. It was a 14TH unit, but the ONLY thing I did was play with the firmware, no voltage changes. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 24, 2018, 02:20:57 AM I have put this fw on 5 machines so far and have seen almost no difference in power or hash, im really confused how you guys are getting so much out of it and im not don't feel bad - mine do not have the c5 board and all it did was to slow them down almost half a TH/s - but without a way to measure the power consumption, I am not sure if that would be more efficient for me or not. I need to find a way to measure the power usage. I have seen ones that fit right in the plug for some plugs but never for the plug style I have (L6-20P). Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: cmanmatt on October 24, 2018, 02:42:34 AM Just updated one circuit (4 S9s). I have heavy duty smart switches with live wattage on my circuits and saw an immediate drop in wattage by about 13%. Nice!
Hashrate looks to be unchanged. I'm on Slushpool. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 10:16:28 AM Be aware of this firmware!
Many of mine S9 have 1 dead board just after flashing this firmware and Im not able to repair it. If there is anybody with the same problem, please let me know... Old firmware didnt help, its all 13,5ths versions. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 24, 2018, 10:58:59 AM Be aware of this firmware! Many of mine S9 have 1 dead board just after flashing this firmware and Im not able to repair it. If there is anybody with the same problem, please let me know... Old firmware didnt help, its all 13,5ths versions. what version of S9? you did not put it on the S9i or S9j did you? and did you check your control board? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 01:26:11 PM what version of S9? you did not put it on the S9i or S9j did you? and did you check your control board? Classic version 13,5Ths S9 - 3 of 6 has one missing boards after FW update Controll boards are all Model Ctrl_C41 Version 1.20 Ive tried also one S9i 14THs and it works fine there but I didnt meassured the power consumption. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 24, 2018, 01:28:47 PM Classic version 13,5Ths S9 - 3 of 6 has one missing boards after FW update Controll boards are all Model Ctrl_C41 Version 1.20 Ive tried also one S9i 14THs and it works fine there but I didnt meassured the power consumption. Did you make a back up? if so, you should be able to revert to that. If not, the prior firmware should be able to be installed. I would not test it on the S9i - Bitmain has stated that the S9i version will be out later next week. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 01:30:36 PM Did you make a back up? if so, you should be able to revert to that. If not, the prior firmware should be able to be installed. I would not test it on the S9i - Bitmain has stated that the S9i version will be out later next week. I can put there previous versions of firmware - I do have those, but it also didnt help. I gave there the same FW as before but one of the boards is missing... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 24, 2018, 01:40:51 PM I can put there previous versions of firmware - I do have those, but it also didnt help. I gave there the same FW as before but one of the boards is missing... Hmm - I have seen where people had issues when they installed it but not when they revert back. which one are you using? the one from the 22nd or the one from the 23rd? They put out a revised version yesterday. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 01:46:08 PM Hmm - I have seen where people had issues when they installed it but not when they revert back. which one are you using? the one from the 22nd or the one from the 23rd? They put out a revised version yesterday. I have the 22nd version - Antmines_S9_LPM_20181022 Im doing now upgrade to the 23rd version... EDIT: it of course didnt changed anything, although this version has much faster startup Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 24, 2018, 02:08:51 PM I have the 22nd version - Antmines_S9_LPM_20181022 Im doing now upgrade to the 23rd version... EDIT: it of course didnt changed anything, although this version has much faster startup hmm if it is a Firmware issue - then reverting should fix any issues you get from the new one. can you find any errors in the log? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 02:23:44 PM To be honest I cant fully read in the log...
Code: [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 24, 2018, 03:30:30 PM Well I'm not getting great hash still. Down to 13.3TH on a unit that's was 13.7TH prior. Ordering a new meter. We'll see what it's drawing at soon.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hockeybum on October 24, 2018, 03:35:39 PM Below is a copy/paste of your log issue. I’ve only put LPM firmware on 2 machines so far and haven’t had any problems. You could try different firmware as others have stated or reboot a few times to see if it comes back.
Code: retry Chain[J6] has 0 asic Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: PeaMine on October 24, 2018, 03:40:10 PM I had one upgraded S9 that I have not been able to get back online at all after updating, will try swapping out the controller with another working one to see if that is what went bad.
Beyond that, seemed to work. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 24, 2018, 03:52:17 PM So I upgraded from the 10/22 to the 10/23 firmware and I am still not seeing a drop in power usage at all....I really dont understand why this isnt working for me. I need to get this figured out as I have 8800 s9s waiting to be flashed once I do.
EDIT: Turns out the pool I was using CLAIMED to have support for it but it actually does not. I pointed a machine at kano.is and saw an immediate 200w power reduction. This must be something completely different than the ASICboost used in the Halong machines as those would not connect to an incompatible pool, which is what caused my confusion. As usual bitmain seems to have done it better than the competition despite all the hate towards them Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tw0rak on October 24, 2018, 03:53:50 PM So I upgraded from the 10/22 to the 10/23 firmware and I am still not seeing a drop in power usage at all....I really dont understand why this isnt working for me. I need to get this figured out as I have 8800 s9s waiting to be flashed once I do. Probably you are using NH or sth like that - you have to use compatible pool - kano.is or shitty antpool... NH it works but no power drop... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 24, 2018, 08:44:35 PM So I upgraded from the 10/22 to the 10/23 firmware and I am still not seeing a drop in power usage at all....I really dont understand why this isnt working for me. I need to get this figured out as I have 8800 s9s waiting to be flashed once I do. EDIT: Turns out the pool I was using CLAIMED to have support for it but it actually does not. I pointed a machine at kano.is and saw an immediate 200w power reduction. This must be something completely different than the ASICboost used in the Halong machines as those would not connect to an incompatible pool, which is what caused my confusion. As usual bitmain seems to have done it better than the competition despite all the hate towards them is there any way to flash all together? or one by one? just wondering Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 24, 2018, 09:42:45 PM Did a restart and now the unit is hashing average of 14TH last hour on ckpool. Antminer UI reads 13.7 again. Reader is ordered. Will update then.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MantaMine on October 25, 2018, 12:11:48 AM Be aware of this firmware! Many of mine S9 have 1 dead board just after flashing this firmware and Im not able to repair it. If there is anybody with the same problem, please let me know... Old firmware didnt help, its all 13,5ths versions. Same problem here. Updated seven 13.5 S9s. 3x work fine, running cooler. 3x missing one hashboard. 1x missing two hashboards. No FW for the 13.5 available on BM site. Installed braiins OS on one of the units with one missing board. Still a board missing with that FW. Boards may have fried.... Tw0rak, or anyone else for that matter, if you find a fix please share. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 25, 2018, 12:51:48 AM Same problem here. Updated seven 13.5 S9s. 3x work fine, running cooler. 3x missing one hashboard. 1x missing two hashboards. No FW for the 13.5 available on BM site. Installed braiins OS on one of the units with one missing board. Still a board missing with that FW. Boards may have fried.... Tw0rak, or anyone else for that matter, if you find a fix please share. what do you mean there is no FW for the 13.5 on BM site? I see 4 other FW versions on BM site other than this new FW. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MantaMine on October 25, 2018, 01:58:48 AM what do you mean there is no FW for the 13.5 on BM site? I see 4 other FW versions on BM site other than this new FW. You tell me which one is for the 13.5 th model. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 25, 2018, 04:49:02 AM You tell me which one is for the 13.5 th model. depends on which version of 13.5 you have. did you not make a back up before you upgraded to the LPM one? if so, you could easily restore from that one. the first 3 are for ones with fixed frequency - I dont believe the 13.5's ever had fixed frequency - if so, that would be the 4th one that you need. provided it is an S9 version of the 13.5 and not the S9i version. http://i66.tinypic.com/hwn414.jpg (http://i66.tinypic.com/hwn414.jpg) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hostels on October 25, 2018, 08:52:26 AM Guys what about s9i new firmware? Should i wait or i can upload s9 firmware to s9i?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 25, 2018, 09:04:33 AM Guys what about s9i new firmware? Should i wait or i can upload s9 firmware to s9i? as stated above they will release firmware for S9i soon and I'd suggest you to wait a bit more even though I have tested different FWs on different models and some of them are working just fine Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hostels on October 25, 2018, 09:07:34 AM Ok tnx mate, seem i will wait)
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 25, 2018, 09:45:54 AM as stated above they will release firmware for S9i soon and I'd suggest you to wait a bit more even though I have tested different FWs on different models and some of them are working just fine hi, do you experience lesser or slightly lower hashing on s9? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hostels on October 25, 2018, 10:05:07 AM Same hashrate and decrease in temperature.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 25, 2018, 11:32:58 AM Same hashrate and decrease in temperature. my hash rate decreased slightly for some reason.....and my temperature too. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: VTdude12 on October 25, 2018, 11:50:40 AM Hi all. Had success at first with this firmware, but my total hashrate has slowly dropped day-over-day...
In total I've gone from ~330 to ~310 as reported by Slush. Anyone else seeing this??? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 25, 2018, 12:35:01 PM Hi all. Had success at first with this firmware, but my total hashrate has slowly dropped day-over-day... In total I've gone from ~330 to ~310 as reported by Slush. Anyone else seeing this??? yes....my hash rate has drop too. every s9 drop about 300 to 400gh. anyone else facing this Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Shad0wSmurf on October 25, 2018, 12:37:46 PM yes....my hash rate has drop too. every s9 drop about 300 to 400gh. anyone else facing this It down clock's your volts so less hashrate Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Gabrics on October 25, 2018, 01:20:29 PM My hash rate is down about 1-2% average. Still a good result for 11-13% power down though.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: VTdude12 on October 25, 2018, 02:11:56 PM Yea I'm aware of downlocking V, but I've now gone from ~330 TH to ~305 and seems to be going lower by the hour!
That's almost 10% hashrate loss! :( Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hostels on October 25, 2018, 02:27:35 PM Where you see hashrate lose, on pool?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: justinjja on October 25, 2018, 02:54:51 PM My 13.5GH/s miners defaluted to 550mhz or like 11.5GH/s
Anyone know what voltage/frequency I need to set to get back to 13.5? Edit: I'm trying 634mhz, that is what one of my other miners is running at, Leaving the voltage unchanged for now. Seems to be working, getting 13.5gh/s again, and not seeing any errors. Where are the fan settings? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 25, 2018, 04:11:16 PM hi, do you experience lesser or slightly lower hashing on s9? ok so after a bit wait I did update my farm partially 40 units for now and yes there's a change in power consumption but also in hashrate. Some of them even dropped from 13.8 to 12.5 almost about 10%, freqs are 2x627 and 640MHz, some of them dropped slightly lower rates I think they are still working on FW so let's wait and see Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 25, 2018, 06:09:06 PM Now that I got my pool issue cleared up I have multiple miners running with lower consumption.
I am averaging a 200w savings on each machine and these are the hash rates after 24 hours (these are all on HP 2450w 94% efficiency server PSUs): #1: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.502 TH @ 1305w #2: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.532 TH @ 1285w #3: 14.0TH s9 currently averaging 13.747 TH @ 1352w #4: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.715 TH @ 1298w #5: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.608 TH @ 1288w I am going to throw the firmware on a couple more 14TH units and see if they lose any speed but so far all of my 13.5 TH units are at full speed if not a tiny bit more. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 25, 2018, 06:36:35 PM Now that I got my pool issue cleared up I have multiple miners running with lower consumption. I am averaging a 200w savings on each machine and these are the hash rates after 24 hours (these are all on HP 2450w 94% efficiency server PSUs): #1: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.502 TH @ 1305w #2: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.532 TH @ 1285w #3: 14.0TH s9 currently averaging 13.747 TH @ 1352w #4: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.715 TH @ 1298w #5: 13.5TH s9 currently averaging 13.608 TH @ 1288w I am going to throw the firmware on a couple more 14TH units and see if they lose any speed but so far all of my 13.5 TH units are at full speed if not a tiny bit more. hi, pls update us with your hash rate after 24 hours. as a lot of us are losing our hash rate. thanks Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 25, 2018, 06:38:21 PM Running on 115 S9s now. I'm seeing about 15% in power savings, but the hash rate drops slowly over 24 hours until I'm at about a 6% hash loss (averaged across all the miners). Rebooting brings them back to full hash.
hi, pls update us with your hash rate after 24 hours. as a lot of us are losing our hash rate. thanks He said those were his 24 hour numbers... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 25, 2018, 06:39:47 PM Running on 115 S9s now. I'm seeing about 15% in power savings, but the hash rate drops slowly over 24 hours until I'm at about a 6% hash loss (averaged across all the miners). Rebooting brings them back to full hash. Still dropping back down though? Mine is doing the same, reboot, hash up but steadily declines. Is this a mem leak? Or maybe fixing the frequency? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 25, 2018, 06:48:34 PM He said those were his 24 hour numbers... ooopss yes....its 24 hours. but mine is dropping steadily...lol. rebooting helps but drops again...steadily too. not sure whats the problem or any solutions. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 25, 2018, 08:05:27 PM Still dropping back down though? Mine is doing the same, reboot, hash up but steadily declines. Is this a mem leak? Or maybe fixing the frequency? I've coded a twice a day reboot into Awesome Miner which is a patch, but should keep me from suffering too badly. I've asked Patrik to let us reboot based on a % of max hashrate, but such things can take awhile. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hockeybum on October 25, 2018, 09:06:20 PM Is everyone running Nov 17 auto-tune firmware with the LPM patch or is there a variety of firmware that causes the same result of decaying hash rate? Also for CCG or others who are able to use the 10/22 LPM patch are you running the 10/22 or 10/23 LPM update?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 25, 2018, 09:24:44 PM The November firmware is the worst bitmain has ever released for the s9, I do not run it on my machines. non stop PIC flash errors and other weird problems. I have both the 10/22 and 10/23 fw running and I am seeing no difference. I will update again tomorrow and see what has changed.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 25, 2018, 11:04:48 PM Is everyone running Nov 17 auto-tune firmware with the LPM patch or is there a variety of firmware that causes the same result of decaying hash rate? Also for CCG or others who are able to use the 10/22 LPM patch are you running the 10/22 or 10/23 LPM update? what do you mean? doesnt the 10/23 firmware completely replace the prior version? I dont think they both are being used once you update to the LPM version. The November firmware is the worst bitmain has ever released for the s9, I do not run it on my machines. non stop PIC flash errors and other weird problems. I have both the 10/22 and 10/23 fw running and I am seeing no difference. I will update again tomorrow and see what has changed. I have had no issues at all with the November firmware - other than when the miners get cleaned, they have run nonstop since April with zero issues. I am currently using the 10/23 firmware as well right now. I dont have a way to measure the power consumption yet but I will for sure the difference in my next electric bill. I need to get inline meter set up asap as well. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 25, 2018, 11:16:14 PM This is amusing:
https://puu.sh/BR0Fs/051d5f93cd.png (https://puu.sh/BR0Fs/051d5f93cd.png) I put a new controller into one of my early batch (maybe batch 1) S9s (12.93 rated TH), upgraded to 1023, and pushed it until I started seeing issues, then backed down a bit. e.g. It has serious problems at 750, but not 725. No other changes, no voltage tweaks, etc. Basically those early models rock. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 25, 2018, 11:19:49 PM This is amusing: https://puu.sh/BR0Fs/051d5f93cd.png I put a new controller into one of my early batch (maybe batch 1) S9s (12.93 rated TH), upgraded to 1023, and pushed it until I started seeing issues, then backed down a bit. e.g. It has serious problems at 750, but not 725. No other changes, no voltage tweaks, etc. Basically those early models rock. how much power is it pulling at that speed? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 12:07:35 AM how much power is it pulling at that speed? With LPM enabled, 1298 watts at the wall (0.086 J/GH) Side note: Pulling EXACTLY the same if I use one of the original APW3 power supplies (the long thin ones) or a new APW3++. To the watt. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hockeybum on October 26, 2018, 12:18:11 AM what do you mean? doesnt the 10/23 firmware completely replace the prior version? I dont think they both are being used once you update to the LPM version. The only reason I call it a patch is because the regular firmware updates were all over 60 MB and this one is less than 1 MB. It replaces bmminer and a few other files. I have had no issues at all with the November firmware - other than when the miners get cleaned, they have run nonstop since April with zero issues. I am currently using the 10/23 firmware as well right now. I dont have a way to measure the power consumption yet but I will for sure the difference in my next electric bill. I need to get inline meter set up asap as well. I've heard of people having issues with the November 17 firmware since it was released but I personally haven't had any issues with it except for a very few problematic miners that only run on fixed frequency. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 12:37:29 AM I am running 10/23. That release is a replacement for 10/22 with 2 known changes: Its works with Slushpool (not an issue for me, see my sig), and the LPM button actually works.
I also agree with Fanatic26 - if I have ANY problems with a machine, the first thing I did was downgrade to the May 3rd firmware. Almost always fixed whatever was wrong. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: r01k on October 26, 2018, 12:37:51 AM Power Consumption after applying LPM firmware:
Hashrate is about the same, maybe a fraction lower. I'd say the power savings make the hash rate loss worth it. With the winter approaching here in western NY temps will be consistently below freezing and humidity low, which makes the rigs very happy. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: manomai on October 26, 2018, 12:46:44 AM Can't download latest firmware: Antminer s9
Antminer-S9-LPM-20181023.tar.gz :'( https://service.bitmain.com/support/download?product=Antminer%20S9 It Dead ??? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 01:08:17 AM Can't download latest firmware: Antminer s9 Antminer-S9-LPM-20181023.tar.gz :'( https://service.bitmain.com/support/download?product=Antminer%20S9 It Dead ??? Make sure your AV isn't killing it. Avast does... (which was the final straw for me, switch to Webroot today) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 26, 2018, 01:27:45 AM I've heard of people having issues with the November 17 firmware since it was released but I personally haven't had any issues with it except for a very few problematic miners that only run on fixed frequency. well that makes sense then, the November one is not for miners with fixed frequency - at least that is how I understand it, as the other versions are for the fixed frequency miners. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: manomai on October 26, 2018, 01:53:43 AM Please send Antminer-S9-LPM-20181023.tar.gz to me
thai1812@gmail.com Thank you Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 26, 2018, 02:11:40 AM Bitmain firmware download is working fine here...just say'n.
I converted my S9s on the 23rd using the newest firmware that came out that day. All run fine with reduced power etc...HOWEVER...I have noticed that a few of them consistently keep loosing hash after many hours running. I have one 14TH unit that will be down to 11.2TH by then end of a 24hr cycle. Others can be down 1-1.5TH at that same period. A reboot brings them back up, but there is certainly a bug in the firmware release, or the ASICboost software. Anyone else seeing the same phenomenon? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 26, 2018, 03:04:29 AM Bitmain firmware download is working fine here...just say'n. I converted my S9s on the 23rd using the newest firmware that came out that day. All run fine with reduced power etc...HOWEVER...I have noticed that a few of them consistently keep loosing hash after many hours running. I have one 14TH unit that will be down to 11.2TH by then end of a 24hr cycle. Others can be down 1-1.5TH at that same period. A reboot brings them back up, but there is certainly a bug in the firmware release, or the ASICboost software. Anyone else seeing the same phenomenon? a few of urs here is facing this issue.... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 03:55:57 AM Anyone else seeing the same phenomenon? Not to be cruel, but try reading the thread... its all been stated and restated. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 26, 2018, 04:57:59 AM Note to be cruel, but try reading the thread... its all been stated and restated. Eh, skipped that last page. Most were not specific on timeframe for speed loss or which firmware used anyway. The gist being that fractional yet cumulative hash rate is lost over time, more on some machines than others, automated reboot is only fix for now. Let me rephrase - anyone have more specific data to share on this phenomenon? I also noticed that the hash loss was different on each board in the machines affected with some being down more than the other two...and seemed to be consistent over time. One machine had a single board that was responsible for almost 100% of the loss. No unusual HW errors or rejects reported. Anyone still under warranty taking this up with Bitmain support? (almost choked typing that) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hockeybum on October 26, 2018, 04:59:01 AM NOV 17 Firmware 1023 LPM on a 13.5 TH/S S9. Here are the readings I have so far. Definitely decaying hash rate after a few hours.
GH/S RT GH/S AVG W/TH WATTS AT WALL TIME 13597 13458 87.6 1,274 START 13600 13607 86.5 1,273 2 HOURS 13455 13613 86.5 1,273 3 HOURS 13555 13576 87.0 1,277 4 HOURS 13404 13571 86.3 1,266 5 HOURS 13306 13489 86.7 1,265 9 HOURS 13302 13482 86.7 1,264 10 HOURS Edit: Update for 20 Hour data point. Sorry about the formatting issues, not sure how to fix that 13076 13343 87.5 1,262 20 HOURS Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: DefiantMiner on October 26, 2018, 05:15:30 AM That's the drop I'm seeing too. Worse on some machines.
However, I have also data showing some machines running at rated hash (or very close) for 20hrs then dropping off quickly by .5-1.5TH over the following 2hrs. Other show a steady drop from the start. It's very strange. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 03:36:28 PM Let me rephrase - anyone have more specific data to share on this phenomenon? When measured over 100s of S9s we are seeing about a 15% power drop with a gradual drop of about 6% hashing. Individual units vary, so not sure what good "specific data" on individual machines does anyone other than satisfy curiosity. That, and most either have a single power meter, or measure at the pod level (across hundreds of boxes). You are correct that a reboot restores the hash rate. Borderline cards are failing pretty frequently as well with the new firmware. This is based on my personal experience with (115) S9s and communication with another mining farm testing 10X+ that number. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MantaMine on October 26, 2018, 03:53:11 PM When measured over 100s of S9s we are seeing about a 15% power drop with a gradual drop of about 6% hashing. Individual units vary, so not sure what good "specific data" on individual machines does anyone other than satisfy curiosity. That, and most either have a single power meter, or measure at the pod level (across hundreds of boxes). You are correct that a reboot restores the hash rate. Borderline cards are failing pretty frequently as well with the new firmware. This is based on my personal experience with (115) S9s and communication with another mining farm testing 10X+ that number. I've had five boards fail across four machines (total of seven machines updated) with this update. Seems way too high. You try anything that worked to restore them? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 26, 2018, 05:00:51 PM I've had five boards fail across four machines (total of seven machines updated) with this update. Seems way too high. You try anything that worked to restore them? Try a factory reset (via the reset button). Accidentally had that happen to a 1023 box last night while it was being moved and it reset back to a July firmware level. It was on the November firmware prior to upgrading to 1023, so it really does reset it completely (including pointing back to antpool). Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 26, 2018, 05:51:31 PM Here are my miners that are on Kano.is after 12 hours - they all started at around 13.9 - 14.2 but are now closer to 13.6 - 13.7 (the LPM FW is installed on the first 2 only.)
http://i67.tinypic.com/2safsbs.jpg I have others on other pools but the same effect, so no need for multiple screen shots showing the same thing. They all start losing hashrate after 12 hours or so. And they are not running hot - temps are in the mid 60's to mid 70's Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on October 26, 2018, 07:24:24 PM Here are my findings. See images. I only tested 3 machines all s9s. All produced similar savings. 12 times (111.7 A- 109.2 A)=30W savings per machine or in % 2.2% savings https://imgur.com/a/7z47inN Finally we figured out the issue with LP not working. ViaBTC pool is the issue. As soon as we switched 4 test miners to Kano all desired 1 amp savings achieved. Before AC After AC 6.34 5.57 6.37 5.21 6.49 5.32 6.61 5.57 Before: https://imgur.com/a/8Y0msG7 After: https://imgur.com/a/1DTA5Ug UPDATE for S9i We tested the firmware on S9is and it does produce similar savings as for S9s. Moreover, it works with different power supplies. ViaBTC pool not supported for the October 23rd version of the firmware. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 26, 2018, 07:27:46 PM UPDATE for S9i We tested the firmware on S9is and it does produce similar savings as for S9s. Moreover, it works with different power supplies. ViaBTC pool not supported for the October 23rd version of the firmware. maybe so but it would probably be best to wait for the official S9i version which comes out next week. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Hostels on October 27, 2018, 05:45:03 AM My 13.5 TH/S S9 works fine.
https://pixs.ru/showimage/123png_1461829_30893106.png Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: clarose on October 27, 2018, 06:19:06 AM I have 3 S9's - two 13.5 and one 14. All of them exhibit what others are saying - after several hours the 14th drops to 13.7 or so and I restart it - goes back to 14th. Both of the 13.5 units have "lost" a board several times and a reboot brings them back. They also have shown a slow decrease in hashing over several hours. All S9's do run A LOT cooler for me so....wish it worked without these issues.
I think tomorrow morning I will revert to the previous firmware. Sorry I did not have time to do some nice calculations over time, etc but I have suddenly had these issues. Hope they can fix it. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on October 27, 2018, 08:28:41 AM ok this is getting a bit hilarious.
who can convince me that they haven't tested their shitty firmware at least at 10 machines for 12hrs before releasing it? something else is happening here but I'm unable to see the whole picture atm. Have anyone tested this at the antpool or btc.com ?? it will answer some questions either miner is working as intended or not Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 27, 2018, 09:09:07 AM ok this is getting a bit hilarious. who can convince me that they haven't tested their shitty firmware at least at 10 machines for 12hrs before releasing it? something else is happening here but I'm unable to see the whole picture atm. Have anyone tested this at the antpool or btc.com ?? it will answer some questions either miner is working as intended or not i've tested it at antpool. hashrate reporting jumps up and down like crazy. they knew of this issue and claims that it won't effect our earnings and are working on it. but as for slush pool, hash rate down means earnings down. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on October 27, 2018, 03:53:20 PM Hi, I have a S9 13.5Th, and me too, original firmware, I go up to 14.1THs no problem ...
Once the LPM install, yes 14.1 TH, but I also after a few hours its fall (about 0.1Th / H) ... so I returned to the origin ... I always run on BTC.com PS: after many tests on the T9 + I launched the assault of my S9! And, I discovered, an anomaly, I recovered the BMMINER firmware S9J, and it is run at 905mv with a freqence given !!! see instead: Code: chain[5]: [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] [63:255] Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on October 27, 2018, 06:34:15 PM With LPM enabled, 1298 watts at the wall (0.086 J/GH) Side note: Pulling EXACTLY the same if I use one of the original APW3 power supplies (the long thin ones) or a new APW3++. To the watt. maybe a stupid question, but where do you enable lpm? i pot the 23/10 fw on a machine adn it runs 12.8th now at 725mhz. It ran 14.5 before.... Uses 240 watts less, but almost 2th less also... where can i see if asicboost is working? im on kanopool... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: AriesIV10 on October 27, 2018, 06:59:04 PM I had to restart all of my miners with the updated firmware to get the hashrate back up to normal hashrates. Some of the miners were down from 13.9THs to 11.2THs. Although there was a reduction in amperage, there was also a reduction in hashrate.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on October 27, 2018, 07:03:42 PM some weird things happened in our tests
1. S9s 13.5 started working in ViaBTC pool 4 days after. https://imgur.com/a/teOb11B (12.3%) 2. S9is 13.5 works perfectly https://imgur.com/a/teOb11B (12.8%) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 28, 2018, 04:28:41 AM maybe a stupid question, but where do you enable lpm? i pot the 23/10 fw on a machine adn it runs 12.8th now at 725mhz. It ran 14.5 before.... Uses 240 watts less, but almost 2th less also... where can i see if asicboost is working? im on kanopool... It will be on by default when your upgrade to 1023, but the check box is on the miner configuration tab. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Nofearboy on October 28, 2018, 10:46:19 AM After 12 hours i don't see significal difference.
13.5 -13.7th befour , 13.3 - 13.5th after I can't measure the power consumption but the same fanspeed. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: clarose on October 28, 2018, 10:32:42 PM I went back to the previous firmware. Several times a day two of my 3 S9's loose a board and I have to restart them. My 14th S9 is still running the LPM version but it hashes down to about 13.8 after a few hours but I'll let that one keep running for now to see how low it goes.
My one 13.5TH S9 has had the previous FM for about 7 hours now and is back to acting normally. Definitely something going wrong with the LPM FW UPDATE: One of the S9's is now acting up after putting the old firmware back. Sometimes it boots showing only 2 boards, sometimes it stops hashing on one board entirely, the fan (I think the intake) keeps going to max and then back down every 10 seconds in a cycle. I have re-seated all all connections to be sure that nothing was loose. One time in the log I saw: post search failed code: U8:1 post: http://192.168.60.104/mms/postfailedcode.do?minertype=S9&minerID=8178a54113758854&failedCode=U8:1 ERROR: Failed to fetch url (http://192.168.60.104/mms/postfailedcode.do?minertype=S9&minerID=8178a54113758854&failedCode=U8:1) - curl said: Couldn't connect to server That happened along with "chain[7] PIC need restore" in the logs that I've never seen before. All perhaps unrelated but I don't think so - this unit has been flawless up to this point. UPDATE 2: And my 14TH has been running the LPM firmware for 4 hours after a restart and it is now averaging 13.8TH. This was never an issue before this firmware and anyone who doesn't think it is a real problem is delusional. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: big_daddy on October 29, 2018, 08:49:29 AM for Braiins OS Wolfram users
Braiins OS Wolfram With AsicBoost Support for All S9 ASIC Miners >>here<< (https://braiins-os.org/) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: nohrt1 on October 29, 2018, 09:58:33 AM ok this is getting a bit hilarious. who can convince me that they haven't tested their shitty firmware at least at 10 machines for 12hrs before releasing it? something else is happening here but I'm unable to see the whole picture atm. Have anyone tested this at the antpool or btc.com ?? it will answer some questions either miner is working as intended or not I have 23 on all my miners and i have my hashrate degrading over time like you do. I might have to change back to stock firmware =/ Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on October 29, 2018, 01:09:49 PM I have 23 on all my miners and i have my hashrate degrading over time like you do. I might have to change back to stock firmware =/ Yes this is frustrating. Have to restart machines roughly every 8-10 hours as they slowly bleed off hashrate. This FW is a failure. Of course it uses less power, when the Hashrate drops off continually. No trick to that. I hope to see a fix soon. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 29, 2018, 04:05:53 PM From my Kano.is shift graft showing the blended performance of (115) S9s:
https://puu.sh/BSRYc/bfc2a3e9ea.png (https://puu.sh/BSRYc/bfc2a3e9ea.png) Based on that chart I've just switched to restarting three times a day from twice a day. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 29, 2018, 05:33:01 PM From my Kano.is shift graft showing the blended performance of (115) S9s: https://puu.sh/BSRYc/bfc2a3e9ea.png Based on that chart I've just switched to restarting three times a day from twice a day. What is your cadence for restart in 24 hrs? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Nofearboy on October 30, 2018, 07:22:14 AM i have 3 machines upgraded with the new firmware
3 days past and everithing is ok except somme insignifiant hasrate lost and fan speed strange behavior but only at a certain room temperature , jumping quick from 4800 to 6100 and back i will measure consumption to see if is worth. I think the stability of this fw upgrade depend on the batch of the miner Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 30, 2018, 02:28:18 PM Yea, I was getting a much larger amount of HW errors with the upgrade and reverted. Made me to anxious.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on October 30, 2018, 03:43:16 PM Sent an email to Bitmain Technical support. They asked me for all kinds of screenshots and Kernel logs. I guess I'm supposed to do their legwork on this thing? I just flashed everything back to S9 auto frequency version. Everyone's hashing and happy. I'll wait this one out. Obviously work needs to be done on this " Overt ASICDrop " Firmware. :-\
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 31, 2018, 03:20:37 AM What is your cadence for restart in 24 hrs? Honestly, not sure what your asking. I stated I was restarting 3 times a day, rather think that implies 8 hours between restarts doesn't it? For what its worth, I've changed that to 4 restarts a day (yes, 6 hours apart). Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on October 31, 2018, 03:42:56 AM We'll that's what I figured on your cadence but didnt want to assume.
Are you finding the power reduction after restart worth the effort? How are you're HW errors? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 31, 2018, 12:29:25 PM Honestly, not sure what your asking. I stated I was restarting 3 times a day, rather think that implies 8 hours between restarts doesn't it? For what its worth, I've changed that to 4 restarts a day (yes, 6 hours apart). do you think rebooting that often a day would shorten the life of your s9? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 31, 2018, 02:59:02 PM Have you try the firmware on a S9J? some have but in all reality why would they? If it has issues with the regular S9 and bitmain is stating it is for S9 not S9i or S9j - why risk bricking the miner? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on October 31, 2018, 04:02:19 PM do you think rebooting that often a day would shorten the life of your s9? Do you think that restarting your computer shortens its lifespan? This is an odd question. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: daniel232388 on October 31, 2018, 04:25:03 PM Do you think that restarting your computer shortens its lifespan? This is an odd question. lol....im new. so im just wondering if we reboot it 3 or more times a day....will it shorten the lifespan of s9? as most electronics....leaving it on standby or on all the time is better than turning it on and off....thats what i heard....lol.. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 31, 2018, 04:29:00 PM Do you think that restarting your computer shortens its lifespan? This is an odd question. As usual, agree with Fanatic26. It would be different if I were power-cycling the machine that often, but not software restarting it. Has anybody successfully used the Reset button, software reset, or IP Reporter reset approach and managed to revert the firmware? I tested on about a dozen S9s of various ages and the software reset pointed everything back to Bitmain, left the IP address alone (no mac change that often happens when backporting). I tried the physical reset button on 5 machines and all ignore that. Tried on May 23rd box and the fault light blinked within seconds and everything was reset - but it was already running the older firmware. Tried the documented IP Reporter reset on one upgraded box and that did nothing. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on October 31, 2018, 05:36:06 PM Have you try the firmware on a S9J? S9i and S9j versions are "in the making" this version is not for those units and the miner will run but the FW will have no effect on the power consumption. That being said, I would strongly recommend against running this version as it is clearly not performing as it was intended to. I ran it on 100's of S9's for 4 days and nights. I saw the leaking hashing power over at least 70% of those units. Yes they recover after re-starts, but not for long. Besides, that is clearly NOT normal so hence, "it is a bad patch". Do not use it. People who are using it, please inform BM through Technical support so they see that they need to correct their version. Thanks! Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 31, 2018, 05:36:57 PM Has anybody successfully used the Reset button, software reset, or IP Reporter reset approach and managed to revert the firmware? I tested on about a dozen S9s of various ages and the software reset pointed everything back to Bitmain, left the IP address alone (no mac change that often happens when backporting). I tried the physical reset button on 5 machines and all ignore that. Tried on May 23rd box and the fault light blinked within seconds and everything was reset - but it was already running the older firmware. Tried the documented IP Reporter reset on one upgraded box and that did nothing. I have reverted all of mine back to the November firmware. I simply installed the firmware using the control panel. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Alpineskier on October 31, 2018, 06:04:29 PM I have tried to flash the old Nov 2017 firmware 3 separate times....but the new firmware is still on my S9. Can't seem to get the old firmware to install. Fortunately I only installed the new on fewer than 10 of my S9s but would like to change them back until this decreasing hashrate issue is resolved.
Anyone have an idea what I might be missing/doing wrong? Downloaded the file from Bitmain, click on system" tab, then "upgrade", then "choose file" (the old firmware file shows in the "file chosen" box), and then I click "flash image". S9 appears to act like it is flashing but when it is available same new firmware image is still there!! Thanks Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 31, 2018, 06:08:24 PM I have tried to flash the old Nov 2017 firmware 3 separate times....but the new firmware is still on my S9. Can't seem to get the old firmware to install. Fortunately I only installed the new on fewer than 10 of my S9s but would like to change them back until this decreasing hashrate issue is resolved. Anyone have an idea what I might be missing/doing wrong? Downloaded the file from Bitmain, click on system" tab, then "upgrade", then "choose file" (the old firmware file shows in the "file chosen" box), and then I click "flash image". S9 appears to act like it is flashing but when it is available same new firmware image is still there!! Thanks let me ask this - was the nov version what you had prior to upgrading to the 10/23 version? there are some previous S9 firmware versions for the mines with fixed values - could you have been on one of those? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Alpineskier on October 31, 2018, 06:14:05 PM This is from one of the S9s that was not upgraded. All my remaining miners have this firmware version.
Code: Antminer S9 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on October 31, 2018, 06:53:25 PM yep that is the Nov FW - not sure why your other ones will not flash back. I did on the update on half a dozen and converted all back with no issues.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on October 31, 2018, 07:27:18 PM I have tried to flash the old Nov 2017 firmware 3 separate times....but the new firmware is still on my S9. Can't seem to get the old firmware to install. Fortunately I only installed the new on fewer than 10 of my S9s but would like to change them back until this decreasing hashrate issue is resolved. Anyone have an idea what I might be missing/doing wrong? Downloaded the file from Bitmain, click on system" tab, then "upgrade", then "choose file" (the old firmware file shows in the "file chosen" box), and then I click "flash image". S9 appears to act like it is flashing but when it is available same new firmware image is still there!! Thanks I've not had problems going back to the May or November releases. Might want to try the May 2017 release (Fixed fequency), then roll forward to November presuming that is what you were running. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on October 31, 2018, 07:39:34 PM You can also try a "hard reset" with the paper clip in the hole "reset button" and reset to factory settings. Of course, then you'll be on Ant pool Solo and will have to change all your primary, secondary and tertiary pools. Then if it's not already the version on your factory reset, you can re flash the Nov version.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: ccgllc on November 01, 2018, 01:43:48 PM You can also try a "hard reset" with the paper clip in the hole "reset button" and reset to factory settings. Of course, then you'll be on Ant pool Solo and will have to change all your primary, secondary and tertiary pools. Then if it's not already the version on your factory reset, you can re flash the Nov version. Except I had issues on several machines upgraded to 1023 where the reset button (and the IP Reporter approach) were not working. The button was simply ignored. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: vincl on November 01, 2018, 04:52:18 PM if you wanna ged rid of decreasing hashrate just disable asicboost in webinterface. no need to downgrade
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Steamy27 on November 01, 2018, 05:06:08 PM Would you do this by unchecking "low power mode" in the Miner Config/General settings tab?
Upgraded to the new FW and over the course of a week have seen a decrease of 8-10% in hash rate.. and it is still decreasing. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 01, 2018, 05:09:17 PM if you wanna ged rid of decreasing hashrate just disable asicboost in webinterface. no need to downgrade when i was using it, the hash rate still decreased whether LPM was checked or not. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 02, 2018, 02:40:55 AM when i was using it, the hash rate still decreased whether LPM was checked or not. Agreed. I wish others would start notifying Bitmain Customer support. They are acting like they don't know there is a problem. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on November 02, 2018, 07:11:55 AM they are aware of this issue
there will be an update soon we can do nothing about it just wait Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: zenderady on November 02, 2018, 10:04:35 AM I fixed this issue using AwesomeMiner (paid software) and created a rule to restart the miner if these 2 conditions were met:
-Lower than 13.3TH/s AVG (for 13.5 s9) and lower than 13.8TH/s AVG (for 14th S9) -More than 500 Accepted shares (so the miner has time to warm up and reach stable avg speed, or else the software restarts the miner prematurely) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 02, 2018, 12:14:06 PM That's actually a very good idea but it's not really fixing anything. You're still running bad firmware.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 02, 2018, 04:47:33 PM looks like there is a chance they fixed it
Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz 1. 不支持C5控制板 2. 可以降低矿机功耗 3. 条件不满足时自动以常规模式运行，此时功耗为正常功耗 4. 有少量矿机可能升级后会出现算力低，不稳定等现象，请重新刷新回原版固件 5. 修复部分BUG 1. Not support C5 control board. 2. Reduce power consumption. 3. Automatically abort the upgrade if the criterion is not met. 4. Please revert to the previous version if the miner is not stable after upgrade. 5. Fix the known bug Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: sohail289 on November 02, 2018, 06:18:25 PM I fixed this issue using AwesomeMiner (paid software) and created a rule to restart the miner if these 2 conditions were met: -Lower than 13.3TH/s AVG (for 13.5 s9) and lower than 13.8TH/s AVG (for 14th S9) -More than 500 Accepted shares (so the miner has time to warm up and reach stable avg speed, or else the software restarts the miner prematurely) my miner change the ip after every restart. so how awesome miner will connect it Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: sarcheer on November 02, 2018, 06:33:45 PM my miner change the ip after every restart. so how awesome miner will connect it Set a static IP for it at the router. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 02, 2018, 07:21:43 PM looks like there is a chance they fixed it [...] Thanks!! Let's give it a whirl!! Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: chouinam on November 02, 2018, 07:30:03 PM looks like there is a chance they fixed it [...] Does this update include S9i and S9j? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 02, 2018, 07:47:12 PM Does this update include S9i and S9j? no this is for the S9 only not the S9i S9j Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: zenderady on November 02, 2018, 08:14:37 PM no this is for the S9 only not the S9i S9j The update is very small.. as in it just adds the AsicBoost feature. You can upgrade S9i as well. I confirm it works, I don't own an S9j but I assume it's the same. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 02, 2018, 08:37:14 PM I've been running Oct 23rd firmware on S9is (178 units) for a week now. It works just as good as for s9
hash rate drops similarly power savings are also similar Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Steamy27 on November 02, 2018, 08:47:26 PM Flashed the new 11.02 FW to 10 machines and less than an hour later 3 of the 10 are hashing at 0.. Showing all three chains on each of the three machines at 0.00 GH/S(RT).
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: BitcfinderNot on November 02, 2018, 09:34:56 PM Did an upgrade atfer 1120 update on S9i. Still loose about 600-800 of hashrate on one chain.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 03, 2018, 12:47:40 AM The update is very small.. as in it just adds the AsicBoost feature. You can upgrade S9i as well. I confirm it works, I don't own an S9j but I assume it's the same. you may say it works and it might, but it is not designed for the S9i or S9j - there have also been people who have reported it bricked their miners - I would suggest using the right firmware for the right S9 model. The exact same reason why the S9i and S9j had different versions prior to the asicboost version. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 03, 2018, 01:03:01 AM I've been running Oct 23rd firmware on S9is (178 units) for a week now. It works just as good as for s9 hash rate drops similarly power savings are also similar You mean works just as "Bad".....LOL. What good is power savings if you lose Hashrate?? That's not hard to achieve. If I lower my hash rate, I by default, lower my power consumption. That's what folks do to 19gh D3's to group them on plug receptacles that are close to the 80% limit per plug set. I'm pretty sure this is not what Bitmain intended. But at least you got the chance to tell us how many S9's you have... ::) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: BitcfinderNot on November 03, 2018, 05:47:55 AM Regret doing this. As mentioned before in this forum I've tried to flash the backup file on the s9i. But still the s9 upgrade (2.0.0) is on the mashine. Can anyone send a link for download a"clean" S9i firmware?! There is no such firmware on Bitmain support site. I m aware of up comming update for S9i but a little suprised the backup didnt work.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: mettalmag on November 03, 2018, 09:42:29 AM Would you do this by unchecking "low power mode" in the Miner Config/General settings tab? Upgraded to the new FW and over the course of a week have seen a decrease of 8-10% in hash rate.. and it is still decreasing. yes, disabling LPM under miner configuration indeed helps to stabilize hashrate. testing new firmware, will be back in few days with results, 50+ machines has been upgraded edit: 2hrs+ and no visible change in hashrate, will keep an eye 12hrs+ and no change in hashrate so far so good and finally there are better temps 65-70 avg. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 03, 2018, 12:49:41 PM Thank you. Please keep us posted.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on November 03, 2018, 03:30:31 PM New firmware is out. https://service.bitmain.com/support/download
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 03, 2018, 05:20:24 PM 24hrs + no problems
no hash rate drop 650+ s9s were transferred. s9i so far so good Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 03, 2018, 11:47:07 PM 14 hours and hash rates are rock steady. Some are even higher than original recorded HR prior to install. Now just have to check the draw at the wall. See if it's lower. I think they've got this one well in hand.
24hrs + no problems no hash rate drop 650+ s9s were transferred. s9i so far so good The firmware update is not for the S9i. While it won't hurt it, you are gaining nothing by running this FW on the S9i. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on November 04, 2018, 02:47:37 AM Hash rate is good but still a lot HW errors. Will try and check draw tomorrow.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Kalyst69 on November 04, 2018, 07:14:15 AM About the new firmware:
Dear Customers, Please be informed that the hash rate dropping issue has been resolved for the ASICBoost firmware. You may download the latest version firmware for your miners. Thank you. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Nofearboy on November 04, 2018, 07:15:58 AM The new fw is OK
Hashrate is above 13.5 with the new 20181102 firmware , after 12 hours on 3 atminer s9 Hw error is not a problem - 8 / 8 /14 not mesured but many people say Asic Boost reduce consumtion with 1 Amper = 220 w Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: boxalex on November 04, 2018, 08:49:51 AM Happy as well with the firmware upgrade, seems hashrate is up on average 0.1-0.3 and electricity consumption down by about 12-18%.
No problems so far. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 04, 2018, 06:01:05 PM Been running the latest version for around 40hours – looks OK.
Applied the asic boost patch to 13.5 and 14 TH/s S9s - mostly on top of the autofreq firmware and a few on the fixed freq firmware – previous firmware features / settings all retained – including a few custom ones I’d tweaked on the fixed freq devices. Haven’t tried any S9i’s – will wait for Bitmain to release this. Haven’t scientifically logged the individual miner hash-rates or amps, but from the circuit PDU power meters etc I am seeing the following: 1. No gradual speed decline with this version – stable for over 40 hours. 2. Greater than 10% power saving. 3. Good temps – no obvious change – a few degrees less than the “unboosted” S9i’s so might be running a fraction lower? 4. Noise – subjectively appears to be less – didn’t check before / after with a decibel meter – fan speeds appear to be a few 100s rpm lower. 5. HW error all showing 0.0000% so far – so no obvious change. All devices and boards are very similar i.e. 55 to 65 errors per S9 after 40 hours so around 1 error per board every 2 hours at 70 degrees c. 6. Hash rate is consistently at least equal to what the device should be and possibly 0.1 to 0.2 more i.e. around 13.65 and 14.15 TH/s. 7. No damage during the numerous firmware flashes over the past week but did get the following 2 “funnies” – resolved by reboots. a. One hash board showing 0 hash rate with all chips showing good. b. One board dropped to around 50% again with all chips allegedly good. 8. The scoring hash-rate stability is reflected on Slushpool stats - i.e. overall HR is no longer slightly fading over 48 hours and appears to be around 0.8% up (overall including some unboosted S9is). Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 05, 2018, 06:45:40 PM almost 24 hours and no drop in hash rate.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 05, 2018, 08:07:59 PM hi,
I have my miners on pdu's with metering. Today, i switches some to the new lpm firmware. They are running okay,and my mining area is environment conditioned, so everyting stays the same. Hashrate has dropped .1-.2 th, so not that much, but!!!: current hasnt dropped tat much as well! i measure only .15 amps (230v) less... so thats roughly 20-30 watts, but also one to 2 tenth less hashrate. oh by the way: hashing on nicehash: Easy to monitor... edit: I just pointed the 2 to a AsicBoost supported website, and it looks like that's making a difference: 1 amp down each... Does this indeed only works with an asicboost pool? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: sarcheer on November 05, 2018, 10:01:10 PM Does this indeed only works with an asicboost pool? Are you asking if the ASICBOOST fw only works on ASICBOOST enabled pools? Yes and no. The energy savings of using AB can only be realized on AB-enabled pools. BM AB fw is unique so far in allowing the miner to still function on non-AB enabled pools like a normal miner. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 06, 2018, 01:08:33 AM Just updated to the 11218 LPM firmware. Seems my hashrate is slightly higher and low power consumption around 12-15%. I only read through the first two pages and the last page on this thread, but has anyone been able to run this with the LPM box unchecked and confirmed higher hashrate? So far from what i've read on the first two pages, no differences with LPM box checked or unchecked. Btw, I am running this on pool.bitcoin since they notified me that the pool now supports ASICBoost.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 06, 2018, 04:01:55 AM after almost 46 hours, the miners are now disconnected from pool though they are apparently running (there is no error light on miner and controller and boards are powering up) - I cannot remote into them and reset has failed.
update: after about 6 attempts at reset, they finally reset and are now hashing after I reconfigured. I dont know why this happened - they were both at about 13.8TH/s then both at same time went to zero and I could not connect - temps were in the 60's and humidity is at 48% 2nd update: after 15 mins of running, the miners disconnected from pool and both show blank screens on miner status - after approx. 5 mins they both reconnected to the pool and are hashing at 13.8 TH/s again. if they disconnect again, I am going to revert them to their original firmware. 3rd update: after another 10 minutes on the pool - one disconnected and the lights went out on all 3 hash boards - after a reset, 2 appear to have come back on. I am not taking any chances - all these miners ran perfect on the Nov Firmware - and now they are dropping like flies on the LPM firmware. I am now reverting all back to the Nov firmware. I did not see anything standing out in the kernel logs - but I was busy doing the resets, I did not think to copy out the logs - do the logs output somewhere automatically? So, I can go back and try to see what was going on? 4th update: one miner will work for about 10 mins after being reset, will connect to pool - no chips have X's - temps are below 75 - then it will reboot and hashboard lights will go off. I see no errors in the Kernel log - the only thing I do notice is on the system screen, the BMMINER version is blank. I have reflashed the firmware multiple times - its the same copy that the other working miners are using. Kernel log attached: Code: [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 I see something about some not receiving something called "nonce" - what is that? and am I missing something obvious? final update: I did another firmware update on the one miner that was acting up, and it has now been up and running with zero issues for almost an hour. not sure if it was the LPM firmware or something else, but for all the miners to shut down within a minute of each other - was not network related as all my S9i's and S9j's have had no issues. I really wish I had better luck with the LPM Firmware. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 06, 2018, 06:50:24 PM Are you asking if the ASICBOOST fw only works on ASICBOOST enabled pools? Yes and no. The energy savings of using AB can only be realized on AB-enabled pools. BM AB fw is unique so far in allowing the miner to still function on non-AB enabled pools like a normal miner. nowhere in the fw or its description i read anything about overt asic boost. The firmware doesnt boost anything. The firmware is called "lpm", wich i translate into "low power mode". It doesnt do low power when not connected to an asic boost supported pool.... So yes, my question was if this firmware only supports low power when connected to an asic boost optimised pool. No weird question i think? ;) Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: fanatic26_ on November 07, 2018, 04:19:47 PM nowhere in the fw or its description i read anything about overt asic boost. The firmware doesnt boost anything. The firmware is called "lpm", wich i translate into "low power mode". It doesnt do low power when not connected to an asic boost supported pool.... So yes, my question was if this firmware only supports low power when connected to an asic boost optimised pool. No weird question i think? ;) You must be confused, because bitmain has called it ASICboost firmware from its release. https://blog.bitmain.com/en/new-firmware-activate-overt-asicboost-bm1387-antminer-models/ Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: NotFuzzyWarm on November 07, 2018, 04:40:33 PM At least one user has tested the new FW against a pool that does not support AB and Kano.is which does support AB. They ran several tests and saw a 200w drop in power when pointed to Kano (AB) vs the non-AB pool and results are fully repeatable as they switched back and forth between the 2 pools. So that tells us that LPM is only active on pools that support AB otherwise the miner runs at original power specs.
Nice thing is, we finally have an apples-to-apples comparison to what AB can do unlike the Inno/Halong miners that cannot be tested because they only work on AB pools. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 07, 2018, 06:57:23 PM I wanted to report some issues with a few miners running the latest version of LP and ViaBTC pool
One in 10 miners (just an estimation) will report as it is hashing in the miner web interface without any hash boards present. The pool does not not accept these hashes. https://imgur.com/a/NFE1C8r Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 07, 2018, 07:23:47 PM I wanted to report some issues with a few miners running the latest version of LP and ViaBTC pool One in 10 miners (just an estimation) will report as it is hashing in the miner web interface without any hash boards present. The pool does not not accept these hashes. https://imgur.com/a/NFE1C8r what miner is this? does not look like an S9 - isnt the LPM FW only for the S9? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 07, 2018, 07:24:52 PM Okay, I have applied the latest 11218 lpm firmware found on bitmains downloads section. I confirmed with pool.bitcoin.com support its compatible on their pool. Ive been running this now for 48hrs. My S9 is in my server room, with a dedicated 24/7 HVAC temps on my asic average 62-68F 24/7. I have noticed a power drop, but as for hashrate.. nothing has changed, according to the stats on pool.bitcoin my daily hashrate the last 48hrs are pretty much the same pre-lpw firmware update.
I was expected a small bump in hashrate based on some light reading of this "asiicboost" update.. but guess I am misreading something? https://imgur.com/a/FaSGov6 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 07, 2018, 07:48:31 PM what miner is this? does not look like an S9 - isnt the LPM FW only for the S9? S9 LPM here is one more like that: https://imgur.com/a/Nwiard8 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 07, 2018, 08:06:17 PM S9 LPM here is one more like that: https://imgur.com/a/Nwiard8 that is an s9? I have never seen the miner status screen look that - is that a fixed frequency miner? if so, maybe that is why it looks different than all my s9's Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: torontobitcoinmanager on November 07, 2018, 08:34:16 PM that is an s9? I have never seen the miner status screen look that - is that a fixed frequency miner? if so, maybe that is why it looks different than all my s9's first time seeing such screens... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 07, 2018, 09:53:06 PM that is an s9? I have never seen the miner status screen look that - is that a fixed frequency miner? if so, maybe that is why it looks different than all my s9's The fixed frequency is part of the LPM firmware update. Mine has the same thing. I updated with the most recent firmware two days ago. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tim-bc on November 07, 2018, 09:59:44 PM I have noticed a power drop, but as for hashrate.. nothing has changed, according to the stats on pool.bitcoin my daily hashrate the last 48hrs are pretty much the same pre-lpw firmware update. I was expected a small bump in hashrate based on some light reading of this "asiicboost" update.. but guess I am misreading something? Asicboost gives you a drop in power consumption while maintaining the same hashrate. If you really need the increase in hashrate, you can overclock by roughly the same percentage in order to bring the miner up to the previous power consumption, but with an increased hashrate. (Should be around 13% from what I've heard). For 14TH/s fixed freq miners I've been bumping them up from 650 to 706.25 MHz. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 07, 2018, 10:01:11 PM I was expected a small bump in hashrate based on some light reading of this "asiicboost" update.. but guess I am misreading something? It looked like mine were hashing a little higher after flashing the latest firmware - but only around 0.15, so couldn't be sure. Now that they have been running for a few days, the "boosted" S9s are definitely around 0.15TH/s faster on average. See image below from Slush Pool worker page. Filtering on 13.5 machines (labelled as 13) and sorting by the average daily hash rate the boosted S9s are all above 13.5, whilst the S9is without Asic Boost are all usually on or below 13.5 TH/s. Previously the S9is and S9s appeared all mixed up on the list - i.e. similar speeds. The cropped image just shows a few miners above and below 13.5 - there are more S9s higher and S9is lower on the list obviously with slightly bigger differences in hash rate. The daily hash rate is the middle column in the image. The 9's have been consistently above the 9i's for the past few days so it is not a random occurrence. It will be interesting to see how the worker order changes when Bitmain get round to releasing the S9i/j firmware update. https://imgur.com/aGTwrp6 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: tim-bc on November 07, 2018, 10:08:25 PM The fixed frequency is part of the LPM firmware update. Mine has the same thing. I updated with the most recent firmware two days ago. No? All that the LPM "firmware" file contains is a modified bmminer and BOOT.bin. If you flash it to an autofreq miner, it will still be autofreq. Same for fixed frequency miners. You can confirm either by testing or just opening the LPM tar.gz with a program like 7zip, if you are on Windows. It looks like the "Beeper ringing" checkbox from the older models has been repurposed to serve as the "Low Power Mode" checkbox in the S9 LPM. I wonder if that means that unchecking the box will not have any effect, since unchecking the "Beeper ringing" box on a base model S9 will simply revert back when you try to save it. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 07, 2018, 10:27:41 PM S9 LPM here is one more like that: https://imgur.com/a/Nwiard8 Odd that your temp sensors are not giving you temp readings? The last time I seen something similar to your screenshot on my S9 was when one of my hashboards failed.. can't say the same on yours, but its worth downgrading to the prior firmware to see if any changes otherwise, could be hasboard issues. All that the LPM "firmware" file contains is a modified bmminer and BOOT.bin. If you flash it to an autofreq miner, it will still be autofreq. Same for fixed frequency miners. You can confirm either by testing or just opening the LPM tar.gz with a program like 7zip, if you are on Windows. Hmm.. ya, my miner status window has the same synchronize freq. after the firmware update. I was going back through the pages on this thread and seen some screenshot of similar synchronize freq. It looks like the "Beeper ringing" checkbox from the older models has been repurposed to serve as the "Low Power Mode" checkbox in the S9 LPM. I wonder if that means that unchecking the box will not have any effect, since unchecking the "Beeper ringing" box on a base model S9 will simply revert back when you try to save it. I havent tested yet, but I did a search yesterday on this checkbox and found a few people have tried unchecking this box, and reported no changes when saved and rebooted. Asicboost gives you a drop in power consumption while maintaining the same hashrate. If you really need the increase in hashrate, you can overclock by roughly the same percentage in order to bring the miner up to the previous power consumption, but with an increased hashrate. (Should be around 13% from what I've heard). For 14TH/s fixed freq miners I've been bumping them up from 650 to 706.25 MHz. Thanks I just found out how to adjust the freq lol.. so I am bumping to 675 right now to see how hot it gets. However I got a pop up that says it will take up to 3 hours to mine, is this true or another ambiguous message? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 07, 2018, 11:28:20 PM It looks like the "Beeper ringing" checkbox from the older models has been repurposed to serve as the "Low Power Mode" checkbox in the S9 LPM. I wonder if that means that unchecking the box will not have any effect, since unchecking the "Beeper ringing" box on a base model S9 will simply revert back when you try to save it. You are correct - they have used the beeper checkbox. The html just shows that the display label has been changed (and obviously the style= "display :none" has been removed) - everything else rather sloppily still says beep etc. My guess at the moment is that it doesn't do anything, but that they might use it with a future "major" firmware update. I think the LPM firmware was a small scale rushed patch, that they haven't yet integrated with the previous autofreq and fixed firmwares. Code: <div class="cbi-value" id="beep"> A couple of my 14s were set as 13.5s when they arrived from Bitmain, so I manually changed the settings as it wasn't worth the expense and time to send them back - hence on these two I have all of the possible fields available on the miner config screen. As an aside, they run fine at 14 at nice low voltage - so they were probably good quality 14s and just set-up with the wrong pic freq by Bitmain. When I applied the LPM update to these two machines, the "Beeper Ringing" checkbox label changed to "Low Power Mode" - but everything else stayed the same - see image below: https://imgur.com/a/gCVww5V Thanks I just found out how to adjust the freq lol.. so I am bumping to 675 right now to see how hot it gets. However I got a pop up that says it will take up to 3 hours to mine, is this true or another ambiguous message? The message is ambiguous / misleading. The "3 hour" message says about searching - even on the fixed freq firmware, which doesn't make sense. As you will be using the fixed frequency firmware, there is no frequency searching, so the miner will reboot much quicker than on the autofreq firmware. You can compare the kernel logs - you can see that it just sets the same frequency on all 3 boards to whatever you input and skips all the time consuming searching and setting each board individually part. You'll probably notice the fans don't go up and down like screaming banshees so much when the miner starts either. Keep an eye on your temps - the fixed freq firmware runs the fans slower than the autofreq, so with two identical S9s on different firmware but set for the same hash rate, the fixed freq one will run hotter. If they do run too hot, you can manually set the fans to a similar speed as they were on the autofreq firmware. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 08, 2018, 12:05:43 AM The message is ambiguous / misleading. The "3 hour" message says about searching - even on the fixed freq firmware, which doesn't make sense. As you will be using the fixed frequency firmware, there is no frequency searching, so the miner will reboot much quicker than on the autofreq firmware. You can compare the kernel logs - you can see that it just sets the same frequency on all 3 boards to whatever you input and skips all the time consuming searching and setting each board individually part. You'll probably notice the fans don't go up and down like screaming banshees so much when the miner starts either. Keep an eye on your temps - the fixed freq firmware runs the fans slower than the autofreq, so with two identical S9s on different firmware but set for the same hash rate, the fixed freq one will run hotter. If they do run too hot, you can manually set the fans to a similar speed as they were on the autofreq firmware. Ahh. okay.. so these FREQ settings will only work on a specific firmware, and not the new LPM firmware? Because right now I have the LPM firmware on teh S9 and tried applying the FREQ settings on it to 706.25 but its been 1.5hrs and the avg FREQ in the status window still shows 650 across all 3 hashboards. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 08, 2018, 12:33:21 AM Ahh. okay.. so these FREQ settings will only work on a specific firmware, and not the new LPM firmware? Because right now I have the LPM firmware on teh S9 and tried applying the FREQ settings on it to 706.25 but its been 1.5hrs and the avg FREQ in the status window still shows 650 across all 3 hashboards. Hi - the LPM release didn't really change the previous firmware - it just added the Asic Boost function "on-top" - so whatever firmware you were on - i.e. fixed or autofreq - will still essentially stay the same. Assuming that you were / are on the standard autofreq firmware, if you have input a higher speed using http://192.168.1.xx/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi, it will just get ignored - you can see that in the kernel log - it will still do the auto-tune function. So you need to flash your miner with a fixed freq firmware i.e. Antminer-S9-all-201705031838-650M-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz and then reapply the LPM firmware i.e. Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz "on-top" of the fixed freq firmware. This will give you the Asic Boost function and the ability to increase your hash-rate. As standard on the fixed firmware your freq will initially be fixed at 650 (i.e. 14 TH/s), so then you need to over-ride that using http://192.168.1.xx/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi which I guess you are already trying . That new frequency will get processed this time - and easy to check in the kernel log. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 08, 2018, 12:39:39 AM Hi - the LPM release didn't really change the previous firmware - it just added the Asic Boost function - so whatever firmware you were on - i.e. fixed or autofreq - will still essentially stay the same. Assuming that you were / are on the standard autofreq firmware, if you have input a higher speed using http://192.168.1.xx/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi, it will just get ignored - you can see that in the kernel log - it will still do the auto-tune function. So you need to flash your miner with a fixed freq firmware i.e. Antminer-S9-all-201705031838-650M-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz and then reapply the LPM firmware i.e. Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz "on-top" of the fixed freq firmware. This will give you the Asic Boost function and the ability to increase your hash-rate. As standard on the fixed firmware your freq will initially be fixed at 650 (i.e. 14 TH/s), so then you need to over-ride that using http://192.168.1.xx/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi which I guess you are already trying . That new frequency will get processed this time - and easy to check in the kernel log. Thank you very much for the explanation regarding the LPM release. This makes total sense now. I did do a firmware upgrade to firmware 650, and confirmed I am now able to set fixed FREQ. I'll apply the LPM release now to take advantage of the electric efficiency. Thanks again! PS.. I had it set to 725 but Temp reading was 81,74,77.. worried i'll shorten the life on this miner, so i am going to toggle it down some.. Update: I applied the LPM update on top of the 650 fixed firmware, and confirmed I can still set fixed FREQ. Currently have it set to 712 and temps are reading 82-72-75. :) Mining at 15,003.80 GH/S(RT). Update2: After toggling it down to 712 the temps didnt really drop much from 725, so I went ahead and toggled it back to 725. Current readings as of now is 82/73/74... did some light search on google and bitmain and seems i should be fine. Fan speeds are relatively low as well. Screnshot below; https://imgur.com/a/0GEd775 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 08, 2018, 01:11:56 AM You were quick with the firmwares and reboots! Glad to see it is working.
Check your fan speeds - at those temps they would normally be nearing max - i.e. 5,600 to 6,000 on the intake fan. Yours are probably lower than this because for some strange reason the fixed freq firmware sets them lower - hence the boards get hot for no good reason. If so, you basically have spare "fan speed" capacity to speed them up and still run a high hash rate at reasonable temps. If you want to increase the fan speeds back to the "usual" speed let me know. It only takes around 30 seconds to do, but it takes a lot longer to explain how to do it than to actually do it :D Edit: your update 2 crossed in the post with my message. Yep as expected the fans are far too slow - but your temps are not too bad even with these slow fans. If you set them to around 90% , you'll get speeds of around 4080 / 5640 on the 2 fans. This should bring your temps down to the 70s even on your 15TH/s. The fans will also then be fixed - which shouldn't be a problem unless the weather / room temp changes a lot. It only takes 30s to tweak the fan speeds if you need to occasionally. Or you can be lazy and set them to a nice noisy, fan bearing ruining 100%! Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 08, 2018, 01:51:48 AM You were quick with the firmwares and reboots! Glad to see it is working. Check your fan speeds - at those temps they would normally be nearing max - i.e. 5,600 to 6,000 on the intake fan. Yours are probably lower than this because for some strange reason the fixed freq firmware sets them lower - hence the boards get hot for no good reason. If so, you basically have spare "fan speed" capacity to speed them up and still run a high hash rate at reasonable temps. If you want to increase the fan speeds back to the "usual" speed let me know. It only takes around 30 seconds to do, but it takes a lot longer to explain how to do it than to actually do it :D Edit: your update 2 crossed in the post with my message. Yep as expected the fans are far too slow - but your temps are not too bad even with these slow fans. If you set them to around 90% , you'll get speeds of around 4080 / 5640 on the 2 fans. This should bring your temps down to the 70s even on your 15TH/s. The fans will also then be fixed - which shouldn't be a problem unless the weather / room temp changes a lot. It only takes 30s to tweak the fan speeds if you need to occasionally. Or you can be lazy and set them to a nice noisy, fan bearing ruining 100%! Ahh okay, im sure theres a write-up on the fan speed tweak online, i'll google and adjust. The low temp speeds is probably because it currently sits in my server closet, with a dedicated HVAC system that runs 24/7 - 365days to keep the room at a brisk 65-70F. However I have 4 physical DELL rack servers in this server closet as well. But i'll give the fan tweek a try, i actually like the slight quietness currently right now. For what its worth, I am not using a Bitmain PSU, Im using the EVGA SuperNova. Update: So I found a YouTube showing how to apply the fan config, via putty, and editing the bmminer.conf file, but as I recall doing the prior firmware 650 upgrade, etc.. and saving the backup file via antminer GUI, the backup file contains the bmminer.conf file, which I assume I can edit via winrar, save it, and do a Restore Backup via the antminer GUI and this should apply the Fan configuration? I find it easier than going through putty lol. Anyhow this is the config changes I made in bmminer.conf: Code: "A:0/0,W:*","bitmain-fan-ctrl" : true,"bitmain-fan-pwm" : "85", Edit: I am using 7-Zip to create the TAR fil. Update: I applied the config above and uploaded the new TAR backup via GUI, and it rebooted, but the fan speed still seems locked at "PWM: 46" based on the kernel log. I went ahead and did a Generate Archive, and confirmed the TAR it generated, had the updated configuration above in the bmminer.conf file. Maybe, my theory didnt work and i'll have to use Putty? well.. i guess for now i'll leave as is. Getting late in the office messing with this for the last few hours haha. Thanks again for the help! Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 08, 2018, 02:10:38 AM first time seeing such screens... It is for me, to be seeing them look like that layout for an S9. My S9's are nowhere similar to that. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 08, 2018, 04:00:28 AM S9i and S9j Asic Boost firmware has just released on Bitmain site. No T9+ release yet. Will try them out now.
Update - the S9i version is the full firmware - i.e. over 60mb and not like the S9 LPM which just patched a few files and was < 1mb. Makes sense because there are no fixed freq firmware's for the S9i - so they can just fully replace the last version. For the S9 - they would have to replace the previous 3 fixed and the 1 auto-tune versions if it was a complete firmware upgrade. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Ameador1 on November 08, 2018, 04:30:51 AM I just installed the BM FW 2018-11-02 to a 13.5T S9. The miner seems to be working nicely - less HW errors than before. I am running it on NiceHash using this pool URL: stratum+tcp://sha256asicboost.usa.nicehash.com:3368#xnsub - But my miner is actually using more power than before and running a little faster (I'm less than 2 hours into the test). Was 1515w on 240V at 13.638T, now at 1555w on 240V at 13.704T. So 0.066T faster and 40w more power use. The pool URL was generated from their site based on selecting the SHA256AsicBoost algo and adding the #xnsub suffix.
Is this some odditity with the BM FW not working right with NiceHash or is NiceHash the issue? NiceHash is supposed to support AsicBoost - but from what I've seen on here, a miner running on an AsicBoost pool should show a couple hundred watt power drop with same hashing. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 08, 2018, 04:53:30 AM installed the S9i and S9j FW versions to all my S9i's and S9j's - now to wait and see how it goes.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: chouinam on November 08, 2018, 05:25:53 AM Installed on S9i and slightly better hash rates 14.05 vs 14 and 155watts less.
I'm happy so far. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 08, 2018, 07:47:46 PM The very simplest method - it takes at most 30 seconds per machine and doesn't involve customizing Bitmain's code at all - is as follows:
Note: I've used Chrome - but it is similar for other browsers. 1. Open your miner in your browser and go to the "Miner Configuration" tab. 2. Right-click the area around the new "Low Power Mode" and click "Inspect" - the Chrome DevTools Elements panel will appear on the right. 3. A few lines down from the Low Power Mode, you'll notice a line with "fan-ctrl" in it. 4. On the fan-ctrl line, highlight the text :none from the style="display :none", press delete and then press enter. 5. You will now temporarily have a "Customize the fan speed percentage" check-box and input box showing in the miner GUI. 6. Enter your new fixed fan speeds (85 to 90% should be good for most overclocking) and do the normal "Save & Apply". 7. Once the miner restarts - check the kernel log - at the very bottom, it will now show the following instead of the usual auto-tune lines: Code: Set fixed fan speed=89 In summary - it's just right-click to inspect the web-page, delete the :none text on the fan control line and you are done. Before edit screenshot: https://imgur.com/cDHmAlF After edit screenshot: https://imgur.com/cIvktyx Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 08, 2018, 10:07:15 PM haha.. wow, that was the easiest mod ever. Thanks again, I went ahead an applied 85% and antminer just rebooted after the save and apply. Fan6 speed after reboot jumped to 6,120 but 4mn in now its at 3,600. The strange part is the FREQ ended up getting adjusted down to 600. Im going to readjust it back to 725 and see if fan speed still shows up 85% in kernel log.
Update: I went ahead and tried the fan speed trick again, and when i deleted ":none" the fan speed ctrl appeared, and the value, 85 was still there.. See screenshot below; https://imgur.com/a/HgI40n4 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 08, 2018, 11:12:49 PM haha.. wow, that was the easiest mod ever. Thanks again, I went ahead an applied 85% and antminer just rebooted after the save and apply. Fan6 speed after reboot jumped to 6,120 but 4mn in now its at 3,600. The strange part is the FREQ ended up getting adjusted down to 600. Im going to readjust it back to 725 and see if fan speed still shows up 85% in kernel log. Update: I went ahead and tried the fan speed trick again, and when I deleted ":none" the fan speed ctrl appeared, and the value, 85 was still there.. See screenshot below; https://imgur.com/a/HgI40n4 Sorry - I forgot to mention about reconfirming the freq when you change the fan setting. On the Fixed freq 650 FW version, if the inputted freq field is left blank, it sets a safe 600 default value - so you have to input the value again like you did. I don't understand why the fan started at 6,120 and then went to 3,600 - as you have input a PWM of 85% it shouldn't change at all. For thoroughness - as we are on a tweaking-fest :D, it would be worth checking what chain voltages got set in the kernel log for your high hash rate. Hopefully it is nice and low like 8.7 or 8.8v (it will show in the log as 880). It doesn't matter much if it is higher like 9.4v etc, but higher voltages will obviously draw more power, although they may be needed for stability. The voltages can also be tweaked to find the ideal compromise between stability and power consumption, but there usually isn't much need unless the miner starts misbehaving or you start getting missing hash boards. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 09, 2018, 12:04:18 AM Sorry - I forgot to mention about reconfirming the freq when you change the fan setting. On the Fixed freq 650 FW version, if the inputted freq field is left blank, it sets a safe 600 default value - so you have to input the value again like you did. I don't understand why the fan started at 6,120 and then went to 3,600 - as you have input a PWM of 85% it shouldn't change at all. For thoroughness - as we are on a tweaking-fest :D, it would be worth checking what chain voltages got set in the kernel log for your high hash rate. Hopefully it is nice and low like 8.7 or 8.8v (it will show in the log as 880). It doesn't matter much if it is higher like 9.4v etc, but higher voltages will obviously draw more power, although they may be needed for stability. The voltages can also be tweaked to find the ideal compromise between stability and power consumption, but there usually isn't much need unless the miner starts misbehaving or you start getting missing hash boards. Ya, very weird. I went ahead and changed the FREQ back, this time to 706. Its been running for 1hr 45mn now, and I see 194 HW on one of the hash boards, total shows .0009%. The fan speeds still shows; 4,440 and 3,600. I did the fan speed trick again, and it still shows the value 85 when i unhide the fan-control settings lol.. strange. As for the kernel log here it is below; Code: Miner fix freq ... Fan PWM:50 Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SteveEsco on November 09, 2018, 02:51:14 AM installed the S9i and S9j FW versions to all my S9i's and S9j's - now to wait and see how it goes. I don't see any special versions of the firmware for the S9j or i. Are you referring to the Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz firmware or am I missing it? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on November 09, 2018, 03:00:00 AM I don't see any special versions of the firmware for the S9j or i. Are you referring to the Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz firmware or am I missing it? They're there. 20181107 versions for both models you mention. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 09, 2018, 03:24:13 AM They're there. 20181107 versions for both models you mention. correct - once these are installed, you will see the LPM check box - they just didnt put "LPM" in the file name. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 09, 2018, 11:46:26 AM hi,
i see several post' of installing the LPM fw on top of FW "xxx". Am i mistaken, as i thought the LPM firmware is a complete new firmware on its own? No need to pre-install any other firmware before this one? If so, witch fw is the best to install before upgrading to the new LPM firmware? Asicboost gives you a drop in power consumption while maintaining the same hashrate. If you really need the increase in hashrate, you can overclock by roughly the same percentage in order to bring the miner up to the previous power consumption, but with an increased hashrate. (Should be around 13% from what I've heard). For 14TH/s fixed freq miners I've been bumping them up from 650 to 706.25 MHz. How did you increase the frequency? When i try the advanced menu and set a higher freq, the miner restarts naturally but goes to its same old "low" hashrate back... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Coupee46 on November 09, 2018, 04:51:45 PM How did you increase the frequency? When i try the advanced menu and set a higher freq, the miner restarts naturally but goes to its same old "low" hashrate back... You need to flash the firmware with the 650 firmware. This is the firmware that allows for fixed FREQ changes, the one that mine came with was on auto FREQ so each time I changed the FREQ it would revert. But once I flashed it with the 650 Firmware, I was able to make the changes to the FREQ and saved on reboot. Then I applied the LPM update for giggles. hi, i see several post' of installing the LPM fw on top of FW "xxx". Am i mistaken, as i thought the LPM firmware is a complete new firmware on its own? No need to pre-install any other firmware before this one? If so, witch fw is the best to install before upgrading to the new LPM firmware? Another user mentioned this on page 10: All that the LPM "firmware" file contains is a modified bmminer and BOOT.bin. If you flash it to an autofreq miner, it will still be autofreq. Same for fixed frequency miners. You can confirm either by testing or just opening the LPM tar.gz with a program like 7zip, if you are on Windows. This makes sense, because when you flash a firmware from prior releases the settings were defaulted, but with LPM my settings were never changed. Hope that makes sense. I was confused at first as well, since I never flashed my firmware until just this week, and I've had my miner for almost 11 months now. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 11, 2018, 04:33:42 PM Ya, very weird. I went ahead and changed the FREQ back, this time to 706. Its been running for 1hr 45mn now, and I see 194 HW on one of the hash boards, total shows .0009%. The fan speeds still shows; 4,440 and 3,600. I did the fan speed trick again, and it still shows the value 85 when i unhide the fan-control settings lol.. strange. Code: Warning: Chain[J6] has no temp offset in PIC! will fix it Fan PWM:50 Hi - From your varying fan speed results and your partial kernel log with PWM value of 50, your miner is clearly still on auto-tune fan speeds - so it is ignoring your manual fan settings - which should never happen. That's strange as the "fixed-fan-speed" is standard Bitmain functionality that is available on all of the S9 firmware - all my "hack" did was to to make the manual option temporarily visible on the Miner Config page. So I suspect something else has changed on your miner - e.g. the line in the kernel log about "no temp offset" value found stored in the pic controller doesn't look right for a normal S9, although that alone isn't the obvious cause as the software then did a fix and obtained a reasonable looking offset. But it is suspicious nonetheless. Did you "back out" the previous edits that you did to bmminer.conf or start from a clean firmware install before setting the manual speeds? Although your bmminer.conf edit didn't appear to work, it may still have made some unpredictable changes. So, if you haven't already tried it, perhaps re-flash with a clean fixed-650 firmware (and LPM of course) and retry the fixed fan settings. Or for even more "belt & braces" you could try a factory reset and re-flash firmware etc. As mentioned manual fan control is a standard built-in (but hidden) Bitmain function so it should always work on any S9. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 16, 2018, 08:41:51 AM Hello, I have flashed mostof my miners now with the 650 fixed frequency, and the LPM fw 11-02 afterwards. The results in hashrate vary from miner to miner, but sometimes up to 1.5TH between fastest and lowest. Are there any tips, or do-donts in order to set frequency's? Most of them wont go higher as 675. I have a few that accept 686.5, but more is not feasible. When i use the rocket mod FW of Taserz,i get up to 16.5Th with stock psu, so the hashboards are capable to do these frequencies... (that is at 750M, 775M) Looking forward to hear your results, and maybe learn a few extra tricks... ;) Thanks. Hi, with a lot of fiddling i got it to work again. What my findings are, is that the miners with lpm firmware dont seem to like very low temperatures. Anyone can confirm? Hashrate is slowing down, becomes erratic, and finally it shows that its hashing but its not, giving a temp on the first board of 15 degrees centigrade... My other miners that are in a confined space thats a little warmer, i dont have these issues. My findings are for 3 miners now (out of 4, that are colder) and i have about 6 that are in a warmer spot. Anyone that has the same issues? edit: i flashed them with 650 freq. firmware, and lpm 02-11 on top of it. Highest setting i get them to work with, is 668mhz on one, and most of the others at 662. few 650 only. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: darksaint77 on November 18, 2018, 04:32:03 PM Hello, I have difficulty determining which firmware I am currently / Photo 1 shows the screen on my S9 13.5 / and whether I need to install any of the updates shown on picture 2 before installing the latest ASIC Boost Update ...
photo 1: https://i.imgur.com/xylq9CS.jpg photo 2: https://i.imgur.com/QvBKGln.jpg Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 18, 2018, 11:28:50 PM All n all i have flashed almost all my miners to the 650ff fw and the LMP fw on top of it.
My personal findings, are that this firmware is nice, it saves some power, but its verrrry buggy still. I have miners that wont mine stable, miners that wont run due being too cold, miners that wont simply connect to some pools, some run fine for 3 days, but wont do a thing anymore after a reboot (for whatever reason) So, in the end, saving a few watts is nice, but it comes with a high price in time and effort to set it up, but also to keep it running afterwards. Same thing can be done with Taserz S9 rocket mod firmware (no DEV fee) and it works a lot more stable... Strange that Bitmain can't seem to get it to work... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: minefarmbuy on November 18, 2018, 11:54:19 PM My updates went fine for my s9i and s9 auto tune. No issues, hash rates are good 13.7 and 14.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on November 19, 2018, 09:15:02 AM Maybe its the autotune then...
I had the autotune on some, and they were underclocked... Ranging from 12.7 to 13.5 on 13.5 S9's So, i did what most advised: flash the 650 fixed frequency. This gives unstable outcomes... I dont want my miners to hash slower.... So no autotune for me... Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on November 27, 2018, 04:29:38 PM UP ! Bitmain Release new firmware for S9I / S9J and say :
"Add support for low power mode, reduce power consumption." Any people try it ? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 27, 2018, 04:43:11 PM UP ! Bitmain Release new firmware for S9I / S9J and say : "Add support for low power mode, reduce power consumption." Any people try it ? I have tried it on both the S9i and S9j and have zero issues so far. they are hashing same as before - I do not have a way to measure power consumption though other than waiting for the months bill to see if it drops. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on November 27, 2018, 04:52:27 PM Any additional option ?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 27, 2018, 05:06:35 PM Any additional option ? such as? LPM is as simple as that, LPM only - if you want to adjust freq and such, that still has to be done the same way as it was done before and is also dependent upon which firmware you install prior to the LPM update. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on November 27, 2018, 05:37:44 PM Yes of course, I knew that very well lol I just wanted to know if he proposed something new;)
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 27, 2018, 06:23:11 PM Yes of course, I knew that very well lol I just wanted to know if he proposed something new;) I think I lost what you are asking - you stated "If he proposed something new" - do you mean Bitmain? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 28, 2018, 05:22:38 AM I have tried it on both the S9i and S9j and have zero issues so far. they are hashing same as before - I do not have a way to measure power consumption though other than waiting for the months bill to see if it drops. I just tried this new Antminer-S9i-xilinx-201811271554-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz on a S9i 14 and a S9i 13.5. Very bad results for both of them - it certainly reduced the power considerably on both of them and as a result also hugely reduced the hash rate from 14 to 9.5 and 13.5 to 7.5. Plus because of the low chain voltage it was clocking up lots of HW errors. So I obviously flashed them both back to the 201811071119 FW. The only difference in the firmware that I can see is that it introduces a new chain backup voltage of 8.00v for all boards that (at least on the 2 miners I tested) is overriding the voltages stored on each boards PIC controller e.g. the PICs have 8.9v, 8.9v & 8.7v on one of my S9i 13.5s - hence the significantly lower power, rubbish hash-rate and increased HW errors. e.g. the only frequency my S9i 14.0 could manage to get up to was 493 instead of it's normal 650. Even worse because it was clocking errors and didn't seem stable at 8v, the real RT hash-rate was a lot less than the ideal (which is based on the freq) e.g. on a S9i 13.5, RT = 7500, Ideal = 9500 - RT was around 13650 before this FW - so it's only hashing at 55% of it's normal rate. I'm not sure why Bitmain released a second asicboost FW for the S9i's or what the difference is between the two versions - nothing on Twitter etc - anyone seen a Bitmain explanation anywhere? The description next to the firmware has changed from "1. Reduce power consumption." to "1. Add support for low power mode, reduce power consumption". I think a few of us of assumed that the LPM option didn't do anything on the initial asciboost FWs. Maybe Bitmain have enabled it now. Maybe unticking LPM on the General Settings screen will stop it selecting the very low (and unstable) backup voltage - it's late here - so I'll try one tomorrow. Stryfe - you said yours are hashing normally - did you have LPM ticked? If this is meant to be a more efficient Low Power Mode, it's not working for me as the % drop in hashrate is more then the drop in power so it's less efficient, more unstable and I'd need to install more miners to get my total hash-rate back to where it was before. I didn't unplug any miners to check the precise power drop, but the PDU amps dropped by around 1.5a (350w) - which won't be precise because there are other miners on that PDU. such as? LPM is as simple as that, LPM only - if you want to adjust freq and such, that still has to be done the same way as it was done before and is also dependent upon which firmware you install prior to the LPM update. You can't adjust the frequencies on the S9i/j's with Bitmain firmware - there are no fixed freq FWs listed for these miners. There are other ways of doing it with 3rd party firmware. Also there is no dependency on the prior firmware as you mention with this LPM update. The S9i and S9j asicboost FWs are complete replacement firmware's - so they will just totally overwrite the previous firmware. If you look at the various FW sizes for the S9 and S9i/j it is obvious. My posts earlier in this thread explaining about applying the LPM FW on top of a fixed FW only applied to the S9 - which only had a small "patch" LPM FW upgrade which was applied "on top". It doesn't work that way for the S9i/j - unless someone wants to risk trying the S9 firmware's on the S9i/j's. Hello, I have difficulty determining which firmware I am currently / Photo 1 shows the screen on my S9 13.5 / and whether I need to install any of the updates shown on picture 2 before installing the latest ASIC Boost Update ... photo 1: https://i.imgur.com/xylq9CS.jpg photo 2: https://i.imgur.com/QvBKGln.jpg Almost certainly (99.9%) you an on a slightly older version of Antminer-S9-all-201711171757-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz. This is the autotune / autofreq FW. You don't have to load any other firmware first unless you want to try over-clocking your miner - so just go ahead and apply the S9 LPM firmware i.e. Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar.gz, although it would be better to get your miner up-to-date first by flashing it with Antminer-S9-all-201711171757-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz if you want to stay on autotune before applying the LPM update. If you want to be absolutely sure what FW you are you can post your full kernel log and I'll be able to confirm 100%. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: MoparMiningLLC on November 28, 2018, 01:47:28 PM ahh, I take back what I said - I was not aware of the 11/27 version - I am running the one from 11/07
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: big_daddy on November 28, 2018, 02:44:19 PM if you have the C5 boards on your Antminer the firmware is not compatible with your machine :-\ :-\ :-\ https://i.imgur.com/tCeP9pc.jpg so, my results are just the same as yesterday :'( :'( :'( update on this models: with this firmware Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar I'm getting a stable 13,6 TH/s on 1.250 W from the wall and temp chips from 66 to 69 C° Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 28, 2018, 02:58:06 PM After yesterday's two failures, I've just tried the new 27/11/2018 S9i FW on a 3rd miner - a S9i 13.5Th/s. Same result - certainly it reduced power consumption (roughly from the PDU meter by around 1 to 2 amps at 230v) but it also reduced the hashrate by 5 Th/s. >:(
It's hopeless - it's as if Bitmain didn't even test it on a single miner, let alone many. I've tested it with LPM ticked and unticked - no difference. It sets the voltage to 8v on all boards rather the higher different voltages depending on each board's quality. It also takes longer to boot because it goes through the game of setting the voltages starting at 9.40v and decrements 0.1v at a time as below - it does this sequence twice at reboot (before and after it sets the chain freq). Complete waste of time - as it is always going to be the same answer i.e. 8.00v. This new firmware is terrible code. Code: Chain[J7] has lpm backup chain_voltage=800 It then sets the board freq much lower than it's base. This is the best board - the other two got even lower 4nn speeds. Code: Chain:6 base freq=650 You can see the low hashrate compared to the other miners on the earlier asicboost FW in the image below. Also as you can see every 5 or 10 minutes all the 189 chips disappear. The HW error rate is also much higher than the 4 identical S9i's underneath it in the table. :o There is one advantage to this FW - temps are 10 degrees less and the fans should last a long time - they're barely moving. :D https://imgur.com/mrewNnm Finally now the HW errors shown next to each board no longer add up to the total. According to this FW 8+1=111 ??? ??? See image below. https://imgur.com/8c9TbMS Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Biffa on November 28, 2018, 04:09:43 PM update on this models: with this firmware Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102.tar I'm getting a stable 13,6 TH/s on 1.250 W from the wall and temp chips from 66 to 69 C° How did you know you had a C5 board? All the old s9's with C5 boards I've tried the firmware on refuse to run the firmware. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: thierry4wd on November 28, 2018, 09:43:16 PM I thinks work for just copy Bmminer at miner by SSH ;) .... But just try
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: big_daddy on November 29, 2018, 11:38:21 AM How did you know you had a C5 board? All the old s9's with C5 boards I've tried the firmware on refuse to run the firmware. simple, I have looked at the board and read that is a C5 board and from yesterday on the firmware is up and running stable Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: xxxABJxxx on November 30, 2018, 11:45:55 AM Antminer S9j 14 Th/s with older Firmware:
Hashrate: 14 Th/s Wattage: 1350 Watt / 230 V Tested new Firmware 27/11/2018 S9j: Hasrate: 10,5 Th/s Wattage: 850 Watt / 230 V The new Firmware reduce the power but also the hasrate. I save this firmware. Maybe it is interessted for a hot summer to reduce the power to reduce the temperature. The Hashrate is ok for this power consumption. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 30, 2018, 01:34:00 PM I'm not having this experience. I DL'd this Firm Ware on several S9I's and S9's and Hashing power has stayed the same to very marginally lower. I've not had the chance to measure power as i am remote. Why would this work for some and not others? Are you sure you used the correct version?
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 30, 2018, 05:40:35 PM Are you sure you used the correct version? That's an important question. There are a number of earlier posts that have inadvertently caused confusion by stating that "everything was fine on the latest firmware" etc with the posters not realizing that Bitmain had released a newer version or just simply they were using different firmware to the poster asking the question. Also some of the posts responding to overclocking and FW update procedure questions are again giving inaccurate or generalized information e.g. suggesting procedures for the S9i or j that are only applicable to the S9. To easily avoid this confusion, I suggest that we explicitly post either the full FW file name or at least the miner type and FW release date e.g. "S9j 20181127" rather than using "it" or "this firmware" which could potentially refer to any of the 11 current valid firmware versions for the 3 models in the S9 family which are still available for download on the Bitmain Support website. DL'd this Firm Ware on several S9I's and S9's" The recent posts about significantly reduced power and hash-rate are referring to the new firmware Bitmain released a few days ago (27/11/2018) only for the S9i and S9j, so by mentioning you downloaded this to S9s are you actually referring to the earlier asicboost firmware? No firmware for the S9 variant has been released since the 2nd November 2018. So did you load the new 27112018 S9i/j firmware onto an S9? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on November 30, 2018, 06:58:43 PM [...] Excellent point. Here is what I am referring to in my situation; S9i - Antminer-S9i-all-201811071119-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz S9 - Antminer-S9-LPM-20181102%20(3).tar.gz Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: SidSlobber on November 30, 2018, 07:35:17 PM Excellent point. Here is what I am referring to in my situation; S9i - Antminer-S9i-all-201811071119-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz Great - thanks - so that confirms you are actually running the previous S9i 7th November firmware - which I think everyone agrees works fine as per your experience. It is the newest 27th November Antminer-S9i-xilinx-201811271554-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz firmware that is causing huge hash-rate reductions. So unless you are happy to reduce your S9i power draw and hashrate by around 30 to 40%, don't load the new S9i firmware. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Norm MacDonald on December 01, 2018, 12:26:19 AM This is very good to know. Thank you!
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: PeaMine on December 03, 2018, 04:22:11 PM Antminer S9j 14 Th/s with older Firmware: Hashrate: 14 Th/s Wattage: 1350 Watt / 230 V Tested new Firmware 27/11/2018 S9j: Hasrate: 10,5 Th/s Wattage: 850 Watt / 230 V The new Firmware reduce the power but also the hasrate. I save this firmware. Maybe it is interessted for a hot summer to reduce the power to reduce the temperature. The Hashrate is ok for this power consumption. I get the same results as well, though I haven't checked the power consumption 100% with the new firmware. Is this as intended I wonder? 38% power reduction and 25% hash reduction, so I would assume asicboost makes up 15% of that change, then 13% lower power from the 25% hashrate reduction which seems to be overall a bad deal compared to the Nov 7th version. Are my numbers off or is this simply a bad firmware? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Artemis3 on December 16, 2018, 06:23:43 PM https://i.ibb.co/cb3m0F8/image.png
Does anyone knows what Low Power Mode and Low Power Enhanced Mode are for? They come enabled by default, but the only result I could see was, a very high reject rate at Bitmain's pool btc.com, around 70%. On viabtc pool it reports a very low hashrate instead (about 30% of what the miner shows). For the time being, I left them disabled and the hashrate reported by the pool is fine. Using: Antminer-S9-all-201812051512-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz (https://file11.bitmain.com/shop-product/firmware/Antminer%20S9/Firmware/00720181206230950692dA4HgFnC067E/Antminer-S9-all-201812051512-autofreq-user-Update2UBI-NF.tar.gz) on 12.93TH S9s. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Shad0wSmurf on December 16, 2018, 07:44:03 PM Try switching to antpool and see if bitmain has something enabled on their stratum server. And then we should be able to query it and see
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Apprentice on December 20, 2018, 06:32:48 PM thinking to give the firmware a try.
does the fans spin slower? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: core on December 25, 2018, 08:44:36 PM 9.5TH @ 750W with this firmware. Temp: 50-60 °C.
Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Artemis3 on December 26, 2018, 01:11:08 PM 9.5TH @ 750W with this firmware. Temp: 50-60 °C. You are only running two boards? Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: dutchlincoln on December 26, 2018, 09:38:28 PM well, this fw only works well on a hadful of pools. All the other pools, even claiming to support asicboost, get 30% less hashrate from these miners with lpm firmware.
Meant to me that it sucks, and is not well tested anyways. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: core on December 27, 2018, 01:47:07 AM You are only running two boards? No, three boards. This is an excellent result, because efficiency is more important! For understanding, I will give a calculation for my electricity cost $0.06 / kWh. 13.5TH @ 1400W: Rev. $2.63 Profit $0.61 9.5TH @ 750W: Rev. $1.84 Profit $0.76 9.5TH @ 750W more profitable, more reliable and less heat and wear. Title: Re: New firmware for antminer S9 - less power consumption Post by: Shad0wSmurf on December 28, 2018, 01:37:33 AM FWIW
The 12-5 auto s9 fw, just drops the max voltages and usage of cores.. EDIT: Thanks for the code quotes, I was on mobile and it kept getting messed up while pasting! Code: origin: 0 : 125 : 0 : 71 : 0 : 71 : 4 |
