My reasons for this steps and why i tried them are that most of them are simple debugging steps. Testing to see what exactly is screwed up in the rig. The 2 different PSU was simply because i wanted to ensure that there wasnt a bridge in the wiring causing lesser current to flow in a wire. But this ended up being the final step so i thought about it as little more, I think that this allowed the whole system to heat up causing and errors in memory and such to physically reset or maybe it caused a surge of power that caused a automatic reset in case my manual ones weren't working and finally it could have been because of a PSU diode casuing some problems and this fixed it. Either way it worked for me and hope it does for you too.


PS. @hodedowe i sent you my first days mining earnings and ill send you a couple more weeks after its actually a little more stable.. Thanks for your help!!

Won't have to!! fixed it after 3 cups of coffee and 16 hours  . For all users who have similar problems, here is what i tried:

1) open it up and clean with a dust buster, apply new thermal paste and reattach the heatsink.
2) connect with 2 different PSUs on 2 different sides and you'll see the wires get like super hot! after this increase wires from 1 port to all 4 and you'll see the green LED become more and more bright with each connection.
3) visual inspection of controller to see whether some solder has shorted (not mine thankfully, that would have taken another hour to fix!).
4) another power socket.
5)another network cable.
6) all steps mentioned earlier in the thread.
7) sub 20C environment.
new PSU (doesn't have to be larger, just another one to ensure that this one doesn't have any problem).
9) lots and lots of patience, and especially no throwing it on the ground after you get frustrated (took me another hour to fix that one ).

That's rough but i wouldn't call this stealing money, As far as i can see, this sort of thing happens on bitfinex and bitstamp as well. I think their main problem is that they are understaffed. This leads to panic which is piled on to when people start losing money. I personally don't use a custom stop loss but use my own API i implement in firefox.

hahaha, this is pretty funny but not really true, i have read their source code and the main problem they face is caused by forking of the bitfinex API, since that is where they actually do the trading the website is just a portal. But i admit their server lag i extremely frustrating! I think if they fix this their site would assume some stability in the high volume areas of bitfinex order book (that is actually where the problem lies) and after bitfinex comes online they have to restart their server in order to resume their trading, this would not be necessary if they autosynced instead of only connecting to the API when trades are sent but autosyncing requires extremely expensive equipment, so i guess they just lie in a tought place in terms of net worth to hardware ratio.

No, just turned the AC on, the temperature is officially under 22 degrees Celsius.


No way im spending more money on this thing, already bought 2 PSU's for it and had to pay $140 to get it through customs, I'd rather buy another one now...

tried all three, no success.... Could this be PSU related? maybe i should buy a 1000 watt??

sorry im just a little tired and frustrated, i did 3 things. first was simply hitting the reset button and restarting the miner, secondly doing the hard reset from instructions here --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=697474.0 and finally a hard reset of my modem and router, after all of this. i still see the miner as shown in the attached picture  http://imgur.com/yFNXDA4  same as before. After no success i retested wiring. 1 connector, 2 connectors, etc.and same results as before. 1st side fan spins at full speed (no LED), 2nd sides fan spins at low speed (no LED), both sides fan spins at low speed (with network LEDs and power LEDs staying on for the beginning and finally sort of fading out).

nope, same ip, still offline... Even tried reset of my router, still shows same on windows. I later tried this on linux and it is apparently showing the last IP this host connected to

I have an s3+ which has been mining for a couple of months now but yesterday it started to give me problems. I tried to restart it, but then it would start as always with the fans running at the lowest speed and not mining. After digging into this a little more i tried to do an ip scan to find where my miner was now but saw that the miner was offline, this is baffling because i can actually see the light on the miner as well as on the modem blinking. So i moved on to a hard reset, no luck. I then tried a new PSU but still same thing, then i tried another troubleshoot where i removed wires from each of the ports one by one and here are my results: on the right rail, the fans run at low speed with no LEDs blinking on the left rail the fans run insanely fast (like ive never seen them run like that before) and on one on each or 3 on each i saw the same thing, all LEDs on, fan at the lowest speed. Then today i noticed another thing where after another hard reset i saw that the red LEDs blinked for the initial setup and then momentarily the green one goes on very faintly after which both the green and the red go off and only the network LEDs run, still see it as offline on an IP scan and light on on the modem. Anybody know why this could be happening or if i could fix this? Help is appreciated.