@IITravel01, 1200W for 3 S3+ is a bit too high... We have low efficient PSU and Kill-a-Watt showing 1087-1107W. PM us your e-mail, someone from the company will send you a beta firmware for the S3 and S3+ Some are already floating around I think, but if you want the authentic version, PM us and will have someone e-mail it you. I tried both 120v and 230v (with a step up voltage converter and a true sine wave UPS and a 240v Kill-A-Watt) with a Gold 1200w (showed 91% efficiency with 2 X S3+) and also used a Platinum 1600w power supply. You can check my earlier posts for more info. 3 x S3+ at default took about 1,200w at the wall (but is rated at 355w x3 = 1,065w).
Can I get some beta testers for a new S3 firmware please? Download link is here, it *should* be good to go but as you know.... Rolls back to the last good patch in Oct (1024), but fixes voltage adjustment and the important reset button. Hopefully.... let me know. MD5: 7DF1B12D28B25E10AAC37E2EAFC7397B hey dogie, i tried to flash the bin and get solid red and solid green lights on the s3. when i try to reach the miner i get "network is unreachable." Does this mean that I have to take out the card and reflash it with firmware, or something else? So far this beta doesn't work for me. I think I read the same thing prior but nonetheless tried it out. The firmware works fine, its been tested by a lot of people now. Was the process interrupted in any way or did it appear to complete? In what state is your miner in now - mining or inaccessible? Edit: Nevermind I got the new firmware to work! I had some intermittent phases of red and green lights both solid and flashing. I manually reset the miner and was then able to access it. DHCP settings are slightly different so it took me a little while to get it sorted out. But its hashing away now.
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Hello i need help, I have tried so many different bat file codes and nothing seems to work right. I have restarted my computer, installed/reinstalled, everything i can think of. I am using windows 7 64bit.
I follwed Dogie's guide as well. Downloaded the antminer version of cgminer, the regular 4.8, i came to this board because im at the end of my rope.
This is the code i have had the most luck with-
cgminer.exe --bmsc-options 115200:0.65 -o stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u Iskavan_Icarus -p 123 --bmsc-voltage 0800 --bmsc-freq 1306
it actually doesnt just shut down cgminer, it starts the volt and freq . . . . then shutsdown.
Below is a screenshot of what happens just before it shuts down/crashes. I have followed every guide ive found, ive been trying to get this thing to work since 6am this morning. Note i also tried to get it working on my raspberry Pi B+ with raspbian. No luck what so ever, if you could help me with getting it to work on both windows and my raspberry that would be amazing, but just getting it going on windows is more than enough . . im just so tired.
Are you saying that the window physically closes after that point? If so, it sounds more so that an antivirus program is closing what it perceives to be a threat - I've had the same. |
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Is it all of your S3s that have the same problem? What do the status pages look like when they stop mining? Are the units on DHCP or static? What firmware are you on? If its a firmware after 1024, you will want to revert back to 1024 or the beta firmware below. Can I get some beta testers for a new S3 firmware please? Download link is here, it *should* be good to go but as you know.... Rolls back to the last good patch in Oct (1024), but fixes voltage adjustment and the important reset button. Hopefully.... let me know. MD5: 7DF1B12D28B25E10AAC37E2EAFC7397B Ps in the future, please try and find support in the S3 thread rather than making a new one. |
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I could not make my S4 boot itself to hashing without fan1 plugged. I have to unplug one of my S1's fan and connect it to my S4's fan1 connector so that it boots correctly. Maybe something's wrong with my S4 but it won't mine with a missing fan.
Now I'm looking for a compatible fan online, since Bitmain asked me to buy a new unit to get a new fan.
Have you tried swapping the fan cables over so fan1 is connected? Interesting, I will try it. Thanks for the suggestion! Hey Dogie, just wanted to tell you that swapping the fans so that fan4 is not connected did the trick! Thanks for suggesting! Kexkey No problem |
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I have a S4 B1 and S4 B2. The S4 B1 is working great but the new B2 that i got in a couple weeks ago worked great for the first few days now I cant get it to hash more than a couple hours. The box would stop hashing but it would stay on, the fans on with a blank (but lit) LCD screen.
I re-seated the SD card and it worked for about 10 hours and started doing the same thing. It works if I turn the power off and turn it back on, but only hashes for a couple hours.
I got a new SD card and flashed the image from the original SD and that worked for a few hours and then it stopped hashing.
I emailed tech support and they sent me an image that I flashed to the new SD card and the same issue.
This is frustrating! I know it works, I just dont understand why it keeps stopping.
well I thought I had a fix to this but it started happening after 24 hours. I have been in touch with BITMAIN tech support and I am getting frustrated. I have asked for a RMA or a replacement motherboard and power supply to try. I think the hashing blades are OK as I have disconnected them one by one and they hash fine for 30 hours. However, when I connected all 4 of them together the unit stops hashing after a few hours but is still on and I can ping/manage the device via it's IP address. I dont see any "xxxxxxxxx" in the "miner status" screen. I think it is the power supply, i think the load is too much and one time i heard a click when it stopped hashing. I have another S4 but it uses the PCI-E power supply where this new S4 does not, so i can't test that. It hashes fine with just 3 blades hashing, so that is what I have running now for the past few days so I can get some value out of this S4. I hope that BITMAIN helps me on this one. I have not had any major issues with my other S4 or my S3's. I really do like BITMAIN products... Thanks for quoting the original problem. It does sound like something power / heat related to power. I am worried that because you managed to significantly extend the interval between restarts that it may still be something to do with the positioning. Have you tried swapping the positioning with your other s4 entirely? After that, contact BitmainWarranty to arrange a PSU swap. Make sure to tell them what variant of PSU you have. |
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From BitmainWarranty: "C1 uses a similar looking PCB to S3 or S3+ hashing PCB, but it is little different, so Please DO NOT mix them as the connector even facing differently."
So the C1 boards are NOT S3 boards just a bit clocked up correct? Just for clarification please.
In terms of hashing power they are. |
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Got some Christmas money, ran a spreadsheet and decided this is the best miner going for profitablity. Especially with a few EVGA SuperNova 1300's collecting dust. Placed my order. I figure they work on Christmas. Or the day after I guess.
Yeah we're all still working, Christmas or no Christmas. |
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@IITravel01, 1200W for 3 S3+ is a bit too high... We have low efficient PSU and Kill-a-Watt showing 1087-1107W. PM us your e-mail, someone from the company will send you a beta firmware for the S3 and S3+ Some are already floating around I think, but if you want the authentic version, PM us and will have someone e-mail it you. I tried both 120v and 230v (with a step up voltage converter and a true sine wave UPS and a 240v Kill-A-Watt) with a Gold 1200w (showed 91% efficiency with 2 X S3+) and also used a Platinum 1600w power supply. You can check my earlier posts for more info. 3 x S3+ at default took about 1,200w at the wall (but is rated at 355w x3 = 1,065w).
Can I get some beta testers for a new S3 firmware please? Download link is here, it *should* be good to go but as you know.... Rolls back to the last good patch in Oct (1024), but fixes voltage adjustment and the important reset button. Hopefully.... let me know. MD5: 7DF1B12D28B25E10AAC37E2EAFC7397B |
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@IITravel01, It will consume 600W but it is depends on your PSU efficiency counts and if the PSU can take some overloading. 1300W PSU, sure there is not much overhead  is a 1300 watt PSU enough to run two S5's?
Yes it is, as long as its not a terrible brand. is a 1300 watt PSU enough to run two S5's?
It should, but it's close to boarding on it not (only 10% headroom). I would think it's OK, but would keep on eye on the setup for a while before feeling comfortable leaving it unattended. S5s are 590W at the wall with a ~85% PSU. That means 500 pre PSU. 1000/1300 = plenty of headroom. The S3 specs. stated at the wall, but my meter on my power supply and my Kill-A-Watt showed that the readings were at the power supply. If the S5 is the same then not so much headroom. And ambient temps and 110-240V. |
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Can anyone speculate a price drop for current top selling/producing hardware on the market that will come due to the new chip the s5 runs? Names and price reductions in list form preferred. Thank you in advance if anyone can answer this.
You'll have to talk to those other companies if you want to know what they are thinking. |
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is a 1300 watt PSU enough to run two S5's?
Yes it is, as long as its not a terrible brand. is a 1300 watt PSU enough to run two S5's?
It should, but it's close to boarding on it not (only 10% headroom). I would think it's OK, but would keep on eye on the setup for a while before feeling comfortable leaving it unattended. S5s are 590W at the wall with a ~85% PSU. That means 500 pre PSU. 1000/1300 = plenty of headroom. |
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Whitewashing may be a strong term, but it is very suspect when you are the only one (other than Hashcoins) stating that their claims are correct and it's all most likely an unexpected software bug and that the negative trust is unjustified. On one hand you have someone who is an expert in the chip used stating one of their claims is impossible and providing documented evidence of it along with an expert in the software used saying the numbers displayed are impossible, and on the other a company who's response was handwaving about magic boards, demanding personal information (including attempting to get forum staff to turn over personal information) and threatening lawsuits while not addressing any of the issues raised. Negative trust is absolutely justified until Hashcoins either retracts their claims or is able to demonstrate them.
I'm not saying, and have never said their claims are correct. What I did say is that you're still relying on conjecture that 'its impossible and it can't be done', rather than concrete evidence that they're scamming. And what I did say before is that there are no customers / no customers complaining, so its hard to claim they're scamming when there are no victims. Either way you're free to rate how you want as its your liability if their speeds turn out to be true, not mine. All I'm asking is that just because you're more willing to chop someone's head off before I am, doesn't make me biased / a suspect / a scammer etc etc. I'll take that back, you never said their claims were correct. You said that their claim was possible and that there is a good chance it's that cgminer and the chips are behaving in a new way. I don't like the manner in which they were attacked in that thread, ie "its a scam unless you do x y z and I've given you negative trust". There are Zeus customers out there and they haven't complained, so its more than possible what they've claimed is correct. I know you and CK say it isn't in your views, but then were are the complaining customers? There is a good chance that cgminer / the chips are simply behaving in a way not observed yet.
Also, I never said you were a scammer. I would say you are biased and financially motivated to protect those companies that are paying your bills, even if it's not something you intentionally set out to do. You've posted several times after Con or I have posted that our claims are conjecture, it might just be a bug, "allegedly falsified", etc. You can say that it is just your concern for fairness, I would call it a whitewashing of what is an intended deception. "It totally looks like a scam and smells like a scam and there's some proof, but let's just see where it goes" is the reason why the securities/services subforums are full of cloudmining ponzies in various stages of collapse. [Rather than breaking this down because its the same answer to both parts]. I said you couldn't be absolutely 100% sure, and so it is possible. And so by jumping the gun you're potentially creating so much self liability because you've potentially damaged a perfectly good company's reputation and potentially interfered with their ability to do business. That's your decision and your prerogative, but as I said before just because I'm not willing to create liability as freely as you are isn't a reflection on me. |
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The pricing is public knowledge on their website. We know from the pricing of the S1->S3 upgrade kit that the savings are minimal and are probably negative if you allocate a cost to your time to assemble the thing and it definitely goes negative when you calculate in the cost of the loss of the old miner which could have been sold as well as the loss for the time it take for them to release the upgrade kit (it took them over 2 months (IIRC) to release the S3 upgrade kit), so you lost 2 months of the difference of hashing with an S3 vs. the S1 at a lower difficulty. If you want a project, pursue your upgrades. For Bitmain it probably isn't worth the hassle. I'd rather have them focus on the S6 or S7 than be wasting time trying to save you $5.
Thanks for being the thread troll.
You really are an opinionated nicompoop. What makes you believe that we are all in this to fall within the constraints of your nifty little spreadsheet on whether we'll make returns and by when? And just in case you missed it, bitmain are actually considering an S1 to S5 kit, so there! Its being considered as is every product, including S2 to S3 upgrades, S2 to S4 upgrades. It doesn't add any credence to the potential it will turn into a product. The main problem with the upgrade kits is they're expensive per GH to test as we have to assemble them, test, disassemble and reclean. That doesn't translate into unit savings for the customer so the sale price either has to be almost that of a complete unit. BITMAIN is about providing good value to customers, which upgrade kits can't always achieve. |
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The problem here is Dogie claims to remain indifferent in how it claims to rate each company. No individual can remain completely unbiased when you are employed by one of them. If you go through many of his posts in other forums, they are usually one liners auto scripted, at times taken out of context. In bitmain forums, he rarely helps anyone to completion. Rather he hands off the problem to bitmain directly, wasting everyone's time.
The final straw, he has insulted way too many people here. No company with any logic would hire him with his lack of community.
Pat, we all know what you're doing - you need to make some more accounts if you want to keep flaming from secret. |
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[...] You might want to just go over Dogie's head. Someone else who actually works there might be interested in responding to your ideas directly to get a better resolution for the Bitmaintech customers. Have you contacted anyone else? I suppose you missed Dogie's announcement that he nowadays works for Bitmain...  Paid to work in the forums vs. an employee on the payroll. Dogie's "official" status would be lovely to know but let Bitmain clarify that relationship. Given all the backlash towards his responses in Bitmain threads even if he is helpful I can't see how it is benefiting Bitmain at this time. Seem like many people have been needlessly antagonized by Dogie and many a thread seems to be riddled with Dogie defending himself rather than promoting solutions for Bitmain customers. ==== Here is hoping that those like pekatete look beyond Dogie and get in contact with an actual employee at Bitmain. Having met some of the Bitmain people they are more than willing to learn from errors and will do what is required to fix problems. Here is hoping that the community has not given up on Bitmain they are trying to make things better. Here is also hoping the S5 is a solid machine. I own a couple of S2 still running hard 24/7 on an altcoin. How about you actually post about anything related to the Antminer S5 - as per the thread topic - rather than attempting to flame me? |
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I'm new to liquid cooling computers, but remember it was stated to not use copper radiators. Is there a way (liquid) to use a copper radiator(s) with the C1 to prevent the corrosion caused by mixing the two metals?
Any PC watercooling fluid, its more expensive but it'll do what you're asking. |
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If he didn't respond and the U.S. atty wanted the material from forum, he'd get it. Even if it means seizing forum servers to get the data (if the court order was to be ignored).
Not responding makes no sense. Posts about doing otherwise are likely by underage members of forun who don't yet understand consequences.
Or think its possible to take on the government and win when it comes to internet matters. |
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Whitewashing may be a strong term, but it is very suspect when you are the only one (other than Hashcoins) stating that their claims are correct and it's all most likely an unexpected software bug and that the negative trust is unjustified. On one hand you have someone who is an expert in the chip used stating one of their claims is impossible and providing documented evidence of it along with an expert in the software used saying the numbers displayed are impossible, and on the other a company who's response was handwaving about magic boards, demanding personal information (including attempting to get forum staff to turn over personal information) and threatening lawsuits while not addressing any of the issues raised. Negative trust is absolutely justified until Hashcoins either retracts their claims or is able to demonstrate them.
I'm not saying, and have never said their claims are correct. What I did say is that you're still relying on conjecture that 'its impossible and it can't be done', rather than concrete evidence that they're scamming. And what I did say before is that there are no customers / no customers complaining, so its hard to claim they're scamming when there are no victims. Either way you're free to rate how you want as its your liability if their speeds turn out to be true, not mine. All I'm asking is that just because you're more willing to chop someone's head off before I am, doesn't make me biased / a suspect / a scammer etc etc. |
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The moderation guidelines say: Topic creation should not be annoying. There should not be too many topics about the same thing in a short time period, and individuals should not post too many topics. "Too many" depends on the quality of the topics. If an entire page is taken up by Spondoolies reviews, then that's probably too many topics. How this should be handled is more tricky, since I don't want to suppress anyone's honest opinion. We'll see if ckolivas' locking solution is helpful. Anyone annoyed yet with Dogie's 30 threads? He really seems to like bumping Antminer or Avalon or his own set up guides. Just today I saw 7 Dogie posts in a row on a single Bitmain thread. Seriously? Does that no constitute spam. Make one post and reference 7 people you are responding to not 7 separate posts holy shit dude. Even in this thread 3 posts in a row. Be economical. Its just quote hygiene. You don't combine 7 messages if they're with 7 different people about 7 different topics. If you do, then 7 different people each quote the entire conversation about 7 different topics with 7 other people and before you know it one quote is 40 lines long. And have you seen the size of the messages I posted above? So long that Guy simply replied "tldr" rather than reading them? PS, if you want to talk about consecutive posts then in your ratings thread I think you managed 16 in a row, self bumped posts before one of the troll accounts posted about what a terrible person I was. I'm more than happy for you to do whatever you want, I'm just saying don't attempt to call the cops because someone stole a watch when you're walking around with a cliche'd bag of swag. |
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None of it bears any significance because a lot of his posts are just banner ads.
Again, says the guy with the christmas tree sig  |
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