Thanks for the photos. That must have been pretty much Arctic Silver to repaste that thing 

Hey guys,
I ordered one E3 the day it came out. Regarding Bitmain, payment was received 9th of April. And my unit is still not shipped? Really? Even batch 4 guys are going to get their units shipped soon.

Anyone from first batch, who did not get the E3 yet?

Rgeards

Using regular thermal paste in ASICs is generally not a good idea. Because of the 24/7 workload and the high temperatures, it tends to dry out quite fast and loose good contact. You will need to replace the paste quite often. The pads also dry out at some point but still have good contact.

yeah, thats something you can also try.

but before that, I would reset by restoring factory defaults in the settings. This is equal to a factory reset, as the support told me once.

Power off completely?
Check cables and PSU.
Factory reset?
Apply firmware again.
Disconnect hashboards (power and connection cable), try to boot controler only.

If nothing helps, ask inno support.

Concerning return times after warranty, my D9 hashboard is 3 weeks on its way now, still did not arrive. At the chinese customs at the moment. I sent it with DHL.

Seems the same with mine.
You should look at the total daily income from your pool and dont care so much about that graph.

Try a factory reset.

Now black sheep can enter the miner and do stuff 
I myself will try to find the miner configuration and just look if you can mess around a bit. Maybe cronjob for autoreboot for the guys who have the problem that after a given time, the miner hangs. Hmm.. what else? If there are some more professional people, maybe they can tune it even more.

If it works: thanks. Will try tomorrow. Anyone tested it?

I accept pm from newbies. Why not posting it here?

It would be interesting to know how many units Innosilicon produced so far.
Here is my theory and the reason why I bought the A9:
I GUESS they did not manage to produce so many units at once and release relatively small batches at higher prices. I GUESS they rushed them out a bit, thats why the firmware is a bit beta. They might have wanted to get their miners on the market, even in relatively small batches before Bitmain - and they succeed. If they produces crazy amounts of batches, the difficulty and profitability would have been messed up a lot more.
But now 2 factors kick in: Bitmain floods the market soon. And also Innosilicon ramps up the A9 production.
If you buy now, you also get only one now and the other one at a time the profitability will be lower. So you get one at 10k$ at half the income until September compared to the first "buy one get one free" at which you got your 2 miners immedeately.

The interesting thing about this situation compared to other ASIC releases is, that (big) coins do not fork so fast this time. And its not Bitmain that releases the ASIC. I have the feeling that Bitmain has more production power and releases giant batches and crashes the market immedeately. Innosilicon send one batch from another production facility than the other. That makes me guess, they could not concentrate high production capacity at one place.

You mean 6700$ per unit, right?

It is a common phenomenon that people that are "new to mining" just see the quick profits. I would be careful. There are a lot of people out there that also see the big profits and bought a lot of Z9s and Innosilicon also does not stop producing A9s. So the difficulty wil rise soon and crash our profits. Thats the circle 

Think of it a different way: These machines mine you coins. Do you think, they will mine you more coins than you could buy with the same amount of money you invested for the machines?

Sounds like defective control board.

Yes, I know that. But as I said, some miners of older batches work fine and stay below 90° even with 725 MHz. Some miners rise at stock 650MHz over 100°. So I suppose that the guide does not work for all hardware versions of S9.

You can still DL the older FW if you know the exact filename:
http://www.innosilicon.com.cn/download/b29+_20180706_042116.swu e.g.
Can anybody post the FW name of 07/18? Thx

I never had a firmware from 07/18... Did it come with the new batch?

I could not manage to update the firmware. After correct seeming update it reboots and has still old firmware.

You might not need the molex adapter since the PSU shoud have enough connectors. Check at the EVGA page.

Maybe you could also try halong mining passwords.

I already tried a factory reset after flashing. Unfortunately this did not fix the high temperatures.
I dont know how the other people manage it or if they also face this problem.