Sorry I haven't reported back.  I live in a country where you just can't go out and buy a miner fan.  I had to have it shipped and then we have had some serious power outages which have made it hard for me to test anything.

I'll give it a more serious test later this week.

Turnes out it was the fan.  The miner only had one fan so I bought the other one and it connected to nicehash.  I waited for the first payout period to expire but when it did, I didn't receive a payout.

Any idea why?

I just got an s9i antminer and I connected it and hit the reset button and I found it on my network and gave it the static ip the router was giving it and I can successfully ping 8.8.8.8.  However there is no hash rate or any other data for that matter, showing up on the miner status page and I made the first pool one from nicehash and I don't see the rig connected in nicehash.  I also don't see the normal light coming on. 

What could be the problem?