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I see the site now offers for 2.2 BTC. considering the 2.4 BTC units are yet to arrive this seems a little bit of a quick price drop?
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Is anyone else having strange issues with WiFi? I have my miner going on WiFi without issues, but I'm unable to log into the miner to check anything unless I connect a cable to it first. Once I disconnect the cable, I can access it via WiFi, but once I power the unit off, I have to connect a cable to it to connect again.
same problem here... I think I lost connection. I'm going to have to figure out a way to use an old router as a bridge/switch/hub/whatever. Does anyone know if I can run both units off of the same PCI connector? The connectors all end in a Y. Can I plug one end into one half and the other end into the other half? If you tell me what power settings I need to look for, I can find it. The unit is stock and has not been overclocked. I'm running two separate PCI connectors, one into each half for now. You will have to monitor the temperature of the cable if you try running both blades on the same cable. I wouldnt recommend it. +1. Running both blades off a pci-e Y connector is a good way to fill your server room/apartment/house with a smell of burned plastics. +1. pushing over 400W through a single PCI cable is how most equipment fires and melted plastic occur. If you look at the bitfury thread, almost every incidence of ruined PCI cables came from people using the 2-ended PCI lead and trying to run more than a half rig on it (ie: 400-700W) If you need extra 12V lines, cut the tip off 2x2-pin ATX mobo connector - it will give you 4 thick power lines that are ideal for a single blade |
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Mine went sort of the same route.
UPS is just SO ANNOYING to work with... I need to vent a little.
I missed the package because I was at work on day 1
- day 2 I was home (especially for the miner) when I was out of the door for litteraly 4 minutes, I missed the UPS guy. I rang UPS knowing the UPS van would be very close, asking them if he could turn around or stop somewhere so I could go to him. Wasn't possible, they can't call their drivers.
- leaving at the neighbours wasn't an option because it had to be paid (ok, this makes sense)
- in the meantime I received confirmation about a 2nd ant being sent to me by UPS was also ready for delivery, so it's 2 ants I'm waiting for now
- Asked them if I could pay the amount upfront by bank or something so it could be delivered without charge at the neighbours (told them it was OK if they sign for me), wasn't possible
- sending it to my work was not an option. I work at a hospital IT department, so I asked them to deliver there. They said at hospitals they only deliver at the goods receivement. I work there a few days a week (hired, not fixed personell) so I don't know those guys. I asked them to call me when the driver is close so I can pick it up, but that wasn't possible
- Asked them to deliver at my office where I am today, wasn't possible because it was too far from my home
- Asked them to deliver after 17:00 or in the weekend, nope wasn't possible either
- Asked them if I could pick it up, well this was possible but only during working hours (09:00-17:00 weekdays only) which doesn't work for me this and the next week
- Asked them to deliver at my parents in law, surprisingly this was possible but it would take another day
- Asked them to send me an email with both amounts that had to be paid (I was in the car while arranging this), guess what... WASN'T POSSIBLE because she didn't have email on the PC she's working on
- Asked them if the amount can be paid by credit/debet card, wasn't possible
- Asked them if the driver has change, no he hasn't , needs to be paid the exact amount, "or you can give any excess amount to the driver as fee"
WHAT THE HELL seriously?
Conclusion is now it will be delivered 4 days later than the 1st attempt because UPS is as flexible as a concrete wall.
Yuk, yuk, yuk.
sounds similar. -I ask them to hold it for pickup rather then sending on delivery attempt, told they cant do that until after first attmpt -I ask the same thing again at 6:30Pm because theres no UPS delivery yet, told the exact same thing - First delivery attempt shows up at 9:45PM - no notice tag left, I assume this 'attempt' happened at the same time as the truck returned to the distribution center - I ask them to hold it for pickup ASAP, told its too late at night, and its on a truck for delivery attempt #2 the next day - 2nd attempt happens at 2PM, theres a note in the lobby for them with my buzzer code and what floor im on. Me and a friend are home from 11am-3pm and there is no knock, no buzzer call, and no delivery notice left anywhere in the building - I call to pick it up, finally arrange to pick up the next weekday morning UPS is a terrible service. I never have problems with FedEx, Canada Post, or DHL - only UPS seems to skip my address and fail to leave any proof of being there (ie: attempt notice) |
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Huh,
did you photoshop that?
It won't let me add S1's to my shopping cart
No Photoshop. I already sent a bug report the day they release the site but they explained to me that its normal? Anyway, Bitmain can contact me again via PM or email. If not, maybe ill explain it to you. 2.2BTC is almost a better deal then 2.4BTC only a few days ago - when do they ship? |
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Once again:
If your router range is 192.168.1.1 you are not able to connect to the range of a 192.168.2.xxx miner!
Press RESET button for 5 seconds, let the router restart. The IP will setup automatic to 192.168.1.99
Now you can connect to the miner over your Lan network.
I did this, twice. Pressed reset button for over 10 seconds, then connected the miner to LAN. And can't access 192.168.1.99. Advanced IP Scanner doesn't see the miner. Is there anything else I can do? Did you power cycle the miner after you pressed the reset button? Yes, three times already, waiting even several minutes before switching on again. Ping to 192.168.1.99 says, host is not available. I managed to see control panel of the miner twice. It was during first several seconds after turning the miner (connected directly to laptop with Ethernet cable). However, I did not finish changing the pool address etc. easiest way: 1) connect your computer and the antminer with an ethernet cable 2) set your pc's ipv4 settings to an address 192.168.2.1 3) you should now be able to scan for and/or go to the antminer's ip address, change the settings on it for 192.168.1.XXX, reboot, and reconnect everything the way it was before |
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Just wanted to post about my chips on a new full rig. Results are on autotune.
Of 256 chips:
noncerate = 0.000 = 2 chips
< 0.250 = 2
< 0.500 = 3
< 1.000 = 2
< 1.250 = 3
< 1.500 = 1
That's 13 chips that are damn near worthless. I have the rig stable up to 544 GH/s now, but I'm still bummed about the loss in hashrate. In contrast, my older full rig (Oct) has only 2 chips with a noncerate under 1.000 and has zero dead chips.
PSU: Corsair HX1050 Gold
Cooling: 20" Box Fan
544GH is quite a good speed though  perhaps with time and tuning the bad cjips will come back on. I had a 'dead' chip on my september starter kit that suddenly began working after a few days of runiing at a higher voltage. also, my 6 new V1.2 cards are modded to 1.7 kOhm on R02F and are running at 34.5GH average |
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if you are going to order more than 4 or 8 Hboards and better to get 100Gh/s with mboard or 2x100Gh/s with 2 Mboards.
compared to v2 h-boards, yes. But owning a v2 mboard (requires v1.2 hboards) i considered the option of a 100GH v3 system instead, but: 1) its $25 more per board compared to v1.2 sales 2) it does not include the rPi or SD card (an extra $50 and sourcing) Im quite happy with the v1.2 H-boards i eceives, averaging 32.8GH each across 6 of them, all pencil modded to *approximately* 1.7 kOhm |
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any new/good V2 M-board (v1.2 H-cards) rPi image?
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my new v1.2 cards are in and im heatsinking them now are these overclocked already? It looks like both R01F and R02F is already sitting around 1.8 K-ohm Please let me know how the new cards are working., I am considering buying some tonight. Thank you. based on previous thread advice, i pencil modded all the R02F resistors from 1.8K to 1.7K (+/- 0.025) and with the SD image remade, the unit is running well. heres some observations (Ill update with more as the system reaches stable operation): note: all chips except for a few exceptions are Autotune-54 (a few are Autotune-53 due to high initial error levels) 5min: Original card that ran between 35-39GH before is at 37.5GH right now -GOOD New cards are all running between 30-34.5GH (average of about 32GH) In the past, the pencil mod often 'intensifies' with age and heat, so in an hour or so I'll post more results, and am expecting the new cards to all increase by 1-2GH as . . tuning takes place 1Hour: the new cards are settling in around Autotune 55-57 with a few exceptions that are around 53 and >30% HW errors New cards are averaging mildly higher, about 32.5GH average. Between 7 cards i have 234GH 1Day: The new cards are all running between 33-36GH, with an average of 34.5GH - 244GH across all 7 |
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PROBLEM: I rearranged my setup so that its now got 7 cards (up from 1) and is powered via the screw terminals rather than the PCI connectors. I power it up and only the red LED (Power)on the RPi lights up. no video output, no other LEDS, no network connection. I try a test: plug a USB cable in and measure its voltage: 5V ----> AND THE GREEN ACT LIGHT COMES ON ---> still no video or bootup though I unplug the RPI and give it just USB, network, and HDMI -> PWR and ACT lights are lit fully, but no output or actual boot. after maybe 10seconds, the green ACT led turns off (in contrast, when booting without an SD, the green act light is barely lit - a different outcome) is something wrong with my SD card, or the RPi itself? ps: i used the SSH command 'sudo shudown now -h' and then closed the SSH and gave it about 10 seconds before switching off the PSU - if that still corrupted my SD card i am at a loss - these bitfury systems really need a better control board that doesnt obliterate itself every time the power state changes EDIT: of course, it was a mangled SD card image. seriously, what can be done to avoid this nonsense?  |
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my new v1.2 cards are in and im heatsinking them now are these overclocked already? It looks like both R01F and R02F is already sitting around 1.8 K-ohm |
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is there any coins left?
wow... couldnt bother reading the thread back a page or two huh? Hes clearly not selling anymore coins at this time how'd you get out of the noobie section with only 5 posts? |
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oddly, my package destined to canada has made 2 stops so far:
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 01/14/2014 11:17 P.M. Departure Scan
01/14/2014 9:30 P.M. Arrival Scan
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 01/14/2014 6:01 P.M. Departure Scan
wonder why? before it typically went direct to alaska, then ontario
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Will you offer an unconditional BTC refund if you fail to ship within 24 hours of order receipt?
you've had a stick up your ass for days now about stupid technical lingo. These are a little more real then your unicornhashtothemoon nonsense that said, prices are way out of whack for the power efficiency of the device. The stack shown in the first picture (obviously not new - they are wired and in use) is 40 wired up units - less than 360GHash and drawing roughly 3500W. You could replace that entire stack with a 2/3-filled bitfury system that draws 10% of the power and is the size of about 3 of these stacked blades the bitfury also costs about 30% less |
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I have the issue that with either 8 or 9 of the USBs in my hubs (sufficient power IMO) they all work fine but the entire time i am seeing
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bmsc send golden nonce
bmsc recieve golden nonce timeout
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as well as `send frequency`statuses
The entire time all units are hashing at full speed, but after 30min-3hours cgminer crashes
any ideas why or of a solution?
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You could ask btcguild to set their fees to near 0% since he puts up fees when its too popular, now might be a good time to do the opposite.
Or any pool could offer to do that, might help some
eligius is 0% fees. BTCGuild is still large enough that going there is not a solution to this problem. I wish slush's pool would drop fees to 1% or 0% - its a great pool and i would happily hop back over to it if there were no fees Sure. Pool op's must pay all maintenance, development, support and other costs from own pocket and working for free! Stay away from pools with fee!  Half your fees, double your hashpower, same income. With vardiff, server load may not increase that much. this. At 2% fees i am reluctant to move to slush's pool - thats a LOT of income hes getting for basic server hosting. 0.5% is more then enough IMO |
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Hi Bitmain, are the AntMiner S1 still in stock and if so what is the delivery time to Canada.
Thanks
In stock, and the order will be shipped 24~48 hours later, since we need one day to confirm the order. Hi thank you for the speedy response, but I'm looking for an estimated delivery date ie is it 2 day a week or 3 weeks. Thanks again. If they ship on monday, they generally are out for delivery on thursday (+/- 1 day). I imagine my saturday order will arrive this week EDIT: looks like a wednesday delivery is expected, but UPS in my area actually skips my building and makes false delivery attempt claims (9:45PM - seriously? Thats not a delivery attempt, thats returning to the depot without bringing my package) BITMAIN, if you read this - please contact UPS and tell them to hold mine for pickup. Thier service is rediculously bad on my end, and last time i got this: ask for them to hold rather then send on first delivery attempt: 'we cant do that until after an attempt' ask again at 6:45pm since they stop taking requests at 7pm: 'we cant do that since tracking says its for delivery - you should have it any minute, and we cant will-call it until after an attempt' (attempt "happens" at 9:45PM) ask at 10PM for them to hold it so i can pick it up in the morning: 'we cant do that, its on a truck for a 2nd delivery attempt tomorrow' (delivery 'attempt' is at 2PM while I am at home and there are clear simple signed instructions in the lobby with a front door code) ask after that attempt: 'oh, we cant do anything until the next business day (monday)' UPS is terrible, FedEx is amazing. Thats my 2c, and if it wasnt for the bitmain product quality, I would never let UPS handle a single item of mine again. If Bitmain contacts them and asks them to hold mine for pickup though, maybe it can be done, but they wont do it for me |
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What kind of power consumption are we looking at for each board?
I just checked a set of 8 of them running on a 750W 80 plus gold PSU (an EVGA NEX750G), with a Kill-a-watt, and it was reading 748W at the wall. That would be about 84W/card assuming 90% efficiency. So slightly less then one w/gh. They're not super-efficient but it'll take a while before they can't cover their own electrical costs. you mean slightly less than 10W/GH -more than 10x as power hungry as other hardware options currently for sale at low prices These should be 0.01BTC per 1GH - that would at least make it competitive |
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The need to pay within a hour is ridiculous. If the buyers BTC in in a paper wallet then it can take over 1 hour to get the coin to a paying wallet, and if confirmations are slow then it will take longer.
With respect, how is it Bitmain's problem that you don't have access to your funds in a timely fashion ? I can understand your frustration, but feel you are barking up the wrong tree here. +1 if I wanted to buy something at walmart on Boxing day, I would make sure my paycheck was fully cashed and in my banking account. I wouldnt go to walmart, pull my item off the shelf, and hang around the cash registers for hours/days until my paycheck deposited *ps: if i had someone standing in front of me at walmart going 'uh, give it a minute, maybe my card will be accepted this time'...DECLINED....'oh, it will work any minute now, can you hold on another 5 minutes?' I would sucker-punch them in the back of the head and ring my own shit through* As my other posts explain, you do not find out it is an hour until you are in the checkout. Using your scenario, you have gotten to the checkout and they have told you that the card system is down and ask for cash, what do you offer then, more violence? This is bitcoin. there is one type of payment and one type only. Your cash example simply does not translate - it would be like the bitcoin checkout asking you to pay with paper wallets despite the obvious fact you are in a different county from the store If you want to buy something priced in BTC, have your bitcoins ready. dont leave your wallet at home when you go to the store And yet again you miss the point.... No I'm not. last time I'm responding on the issue, because its not that complicated: I can accept the merits of having an offline wallet or online wallet that you don't want to send the actual payment tx from. But seriously: The price and time was announced about 24hrs in advance, with the clear knowledge of limited availability. A smart person would make sure to transfer the 2.4BTC to their payment wallet/address well in advance so they could be the first to complete payment. That smart person would recognise that unless they can both put the item in thier cart AND pay for it quickly, it may be given to the next person who IS prepared. You did not do this. You did not think it would be important to pay ASAP after purchase, and when you bought the item it told you that unless you pay within 1 hour your Antminer would be for-fitted back into available stock. Because you did not have your money available to give the store, they gave you 1 hour to prove you have the money. You couldn't and the store offered the item to someone who COULD. not bitmain's fault at all |
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AntMiner webstore is online and Super Fire Sale up coming
Fire Sale Time: 2014-1-11, 23:00, Beijing Time, UTC+8
Please visit Bitmaintech.com BITMAIN releases the online store to the public now. Thanks for the attention and patient waiting from all loyal customers, and also testing our online store. We are going to hold a 30 units of super fire sale at 2.4BTC (In China we called it "second kill"). After this fire sale, the price will back up to normal. Shipping cost is included. Each customer shall place an order with only one S1, Shipping out within 2 days after full payment, most likely on next Monday if we can really finish the sales in the first day. Bug reports are welcomed. The first one who reports a certain bug will be rewarded a U1 miner. Report bugs to: webmaster@bitmaintech.comall Fire sales orders will shipped out on Jan.13, we will inform of you the tracking numbers via email.  we receive some feedbacks about bugs on the website store, and we will reward one U1 to them who feedback us the bugs. update rewarding list later, and award will be shipped out soon. the website testing is still going on, limited AntMiner S1 in stock now, the price is 2.65BTC per one. Bug reports are always welcomed. great to hear of the monday ship-out my 'BUG REPORT': 1) the payment status is misspelt as 'paiEd' instead of 'paid' 2) payment status takes a long time to show anything - at least 6 confirms it seems. In future, 3 confirms is generally recognised as sufficiently embedded in the blockchain 3) There was no payment confirmation email, despite an alert indicating that there would be one. 4) the 'pay: X BTC' and 'confirm: X BTC' info isnt very well explained, and may raise some confusion to know if the payment was properly seen or confirmed 5) no mention of the coupons/vouchers - it would be nice to see these put back in place for return customers  Overall, it was a good experience and the store was quite clean and simple. The main issues are the payment system with its delays and slightly confusing displayed info. if this is sufficient info to be considered for a complimentary U1 in my order, could it be a blue one or a red one? I've already got a pile of black ones |
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