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I calculated that from my original support ticket on their website it was 53 Days since I had received my miner and it had been 80 Days at the time they claimed I was out of warranty. Even taking into account that the warranty ran from the time of shipping it doesn't take 37 days to ship from anywhere to anywhere else and even 10 days would be a bit iffy.
In the end I got my new controller and my miner is up and running but I will continue to chase this with them but I would imagine that they will just ignore me from now.
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Hi All
Just to finish this thread off, none of the repairs worked and Bitmain are claiming that I am beyond the 90 days warranty (which I am not). They then sent me a link to buying a new controller board from their shop and it all makes sense. As far as I am concerned Bitmain are sending out dodgy firmware and ignoring their 90day warranty so they can get people to buy more controller boards from them... will not be buying from them again.
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Just an update to this, I contacted Bitmain and they provided the same info as RichBC with a last step:
"After you prepare microSD with image put it in the slot of your computer and then switchthe S5 firmware with the S7 firmware ." which I havn't been able to figure out yet. I'm going to try and boot my controller with the S5 firmware and see if I can upgrade the firmware from there.
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Much as I agree with not upgrading firmware without good reason.... You are very unlucky to get a failure. I have an S5 Controller here that I play with and have probably upgraded 20 or 30 times without problem, this includes loading all of the different S7 firmware versions onto it to have a quick look at what was in them.
You should be able to recover from the SD card with an image or if that fails you can connect a Terminal, although this requires taking off the BBB and soldering some connection pins and having a 3V TTL to USB converter.
Rich
Thanks for the suggestion, I have a 3v TTL to USB converter but no solder unfort. I do have an SD card however, will try just dropping the contents of the upgrade tar.gz onto a fat32 partition but in case that doesn't work do you have any advice on how to proceed? Thanks |
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two on one controller may no longer work as you guessed it the newer firmware breaks that.
It makes for a comedy except you the op are not laughing
Antminer firmware upgrades are really bad very few did anything worth while.
Can confirm that, plugged 6 boards in and only 3 show. DAG NAMMIT! Can also confirm that I am not laughing I can't tell the difference on the antminer that is still working, totally not worth it. Unfort I couldn't find anything on google before I did the firmware update regarding this being a bad idea, might just slap some search terms at the end of this message: Antminer S7 Firmware Upgrade Antminer S7 Failed Firmware Upgrade Antiminer S7 Bricked merry xmas |
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Yeah there are quite a few people that have issue with flashing, because there are different version for different batch of S7. So people recommend not to flash it. But did you try a factory reset, with the on board reset button?
Yeah I tried a factory reset (and again just before I replied just in case!!!) and no luck. The annoying thing is that I have 2 antminers that I got at the same time (Batch 1) and updated with the same firmware but one works the other doesn't.... Thanks for the advice though, I think I am going to try running both off 1 controller for now |
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Hi All
As per the title, I upgraded an Antminer S7 to the latest firmware and it never came backup (1 of 2 so def not a bad download). I have checked my DHCP Server for new IP addresses, no suck luck. There was 100% no power issues during the upgrade as the miner is in my works server room and I would have heard alot about it if there had been, the only thing that might have done it was switching browser tabs during the upload but I don't think so. The green light and fans never come on.... help!!
Any advice on how to recover this would be amazing, I know the S7 uses a beaglebone and the other equipment I have the uses it (kncminers) can be reflashed from an SD card but I don't know the S7 will.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Just to add, my order of 2 S7 on 9/9 arrived yesterday with no warning (not complaining), woooo!
This thing is really really loud. I was going to run it in my living room to replace the 2 neptunes but I got one up and running and basically its sitting their shouting "Hair Dryers are for wusses"!!!
Has anyone managed to quiet theirs down at all, I don't want to leave my primary miners at work but I can't run this in my living room.
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Has anyone heard anything more about the hashrate equivalent compensation? Bitmain support is being.... Bitmain support! Just wondering if anyone has been offered this yet?
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Dear loyal customers,
We're sorry to inform you that we didn't make the shipment of some orders today as promised. When we did the last spot check, we found some issues which cannot be delivered to you directly, engineers are working on it now and shipment should be arranged before end of next week.
Due to this trouble, we'd like to offer you the compensation following 97.5%*PPS payment according to the total hash rate of miners in order, starting from Oct. 11 Hong Kong Time, till the real shipping out date(which is not included), with electricity cost deducted at the price of $0.098/KWH.
The accounting unit is Bitcoin in the calculating, while USD is considered as a foreign currency. The day to day exchange rate will be get from Bitstamp daily average.
The final payment will be after we have collected your payment address, and we will inform you the way to confirm your receiving address with us.
After collect all the necessary info, we'll process the refund by batches, please wait for update patiently.
Apologize again!
How do we take advantage of this? |
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