Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order

[aarons6]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

nice hash doesnt always mine bitcoin..

you can easily find a block within a couple seconds of starting up the miner.

also there is a bug in the s7 firmware that if you mine some alt coins, it thinks you find blocks when you dont.. i guess its the same with s9.

[Rumipl]

Hi all,

I would like to send my faulty hashboards to Bitmain. As I understood I can remove hashboards and than I'm creating repair ticket, RMA etc.
Or do I need to inform Bitmain before I remove the boards ? (which would be very stupid practice) but I would like to make sure I do everything properly.

Thank you

[mamiakimo]

now i get no lower than 0.0023%

Ja that is more than you were originally seeing and is puzzlement why, but -- still perfectly acceptable and I'd say is fine. My s9's range from 0.0002% up to around 0.003% after a few days/weeks of running. 3 of them are running stock speed, 4 are slightly under clocked to keep chip temps below 100C.

Start pushing 0.005 and then I'd start poking around.

that what happen to my board
today i replaced the place for both boards and decreased freq to 500
now every things is ok
so i think if we kept our miner's chips in temp lower than 92 C from the first day we will keep it from this drop that happen to it after some weeks and make it get more HW errors than it get in its first use

[mamiakimo]

Hi all,

I would like to send my faulty hashboards to Bitmain. As I understood I can remove hashboards and than I'm creating repair ticket, RMA etc.
Or do I need to inform Bitmain before I remove the boards ? (which would be very stupid practice) but I would like to make sure I do everything properly.

Thank you

open a support ticket first and do what they ask you to do
http://support.bitmain.com/hc/en-us/

[vortexz]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

[d57heinz]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

Money is a funny drug;). And honestly who would think they are going to send us the goods after reading this thread.  its time to start filing complaints within the us agencies and at least put some heat on bitmainwarranty they go hand and hand. And if they don't they might have wanted to pick a better name for their site/company.  Good luck to all that buy these POS. And at this point Avalon just seems to be pulling a bit fury. Have some shit leak out that they are coming with new miner so that we don't buy from bitmain.  Just funny how this all playing out. Really is LOL

Also when sending back the parts be sure to disclose the same value they did to us when sending to USA. So that proper tax can be applied to them as it was to us.  Why should they get some kind of relief when it's their problems in the first place?  not to mention when it's damaged in transit you can only file what you said it's worth;)

[philipma1957]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

Money is a funny drug;)

So true

My second dead  board is on its way to me.  I will install both dead boards at the same time.

Have to thank Yoshi of bitmainwarranty for the replacement service.

my verdict on the gear is it is easier to break then any other chip.  So plan for it.  Also add 10% to the price you pay since the gear breaks so much easier then any of there older gear.

Frankly they should charge more for the gear and give a better warranty.

[not.you]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

nice hash doesnt always mine bitcoin..

you can easily find a block within a couple seconds of starting up the miner.

also there is a bug in the s7 firmware that if you mine some alt coins, it thinks you find blocks when you dont.. i guess its the same with s9.

No look again.  It didn't mine on nicehash at all.  All shares were submitted to kano which means it was only ever mining BTC.  The diff of the highest share is too low to be a BTC block (plus kano pool did not indicate a block found by me).

[Tupsu]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

Money is a funny drug;). And honestly who would think they are going to send us the goods after reading this thread.  its time to start filing complaints within the us agencies and at least put some heat on bitmainwarranty they go hand and hand. And if they don't they might have wanted to pick a better name for their site/company.  Good luck to all that buy these POS. And at this point Avalon just seems to be pulling a bit fury. Have some shit leak out that they are coming with new miner so that we don't buy from bitmain.  Just funny how this all playing out. Really is LOL

Also when sending back the parts be sure to disclose the same value they did to us when sending to USA. So that proper tax can be applied to them as it was to us.  Why should they get some kind of relief when it's their problems in the first place?  not to mention when it's damaged in transit you can only file what you said it's worth;)

A bad recommendation, with at great cost.


Read the warranty instructions first.
https://cnshop.bitmain.com/workOrderGuide.htm

You agree to pay for itself their TAX, if you put real shipping value.

e.      Please be sure to declare value “within $45” and describe the product as “Warranty part” on the waybill, otherwise the extra customs clearance fees will be billed to the client.

[citronick]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

I think you hit a block while mining at multipool .. failover from kano.

.. is multipool a SHA256 multi-algo pool?

if yes... then you are bound to hit a block or two

I once ran my S9 at SHA256.mine.zpool.ca:3333 and got 15 blocks!

[sidehack]

Did you miss the part where all accepted shares were to kano?

[citronick]

Did you miss the part where all accepted shares were to kano?

hmmm.... yes missed that... and this is a strange bug

[fusion0389]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

Money is a funny drug;)

So true

My second dead  board is on its way to me.  I will install both dead boards at the same time.

Have to thank Yoshi of bitmainwarranty for the replacement service.

my verdict on the gear is it is easier to break then any other chip.  So plan for it.  Also add 10% to the price you pay since the gear breaks so much easier then any of there older gear.

Frankly they should charge more for the gear and give a better warranty.

I am thankful that you had a positive experience, i pray i never have to email yoshi, but if i do i hope i have a positive experience. There is hope!!!

[AriesIV10]

https://gyazo.com/9b98563ad68c007c3107e1e402e5d387

2 weeks, 2 dead chips on my brand new s9
another s9 has a dead board

funny how they sell this crap gear for 1600$ and people buy them

Money is a funny drug;)

So true

My second dead  board is on its way to me.  I will install both dead boards at the same time.

Have to thank Yoshi of bitmainwarranty for the replacement service.

my verdict on the gear is it is easier to break then any other chip.  So plan for it.  Also add 10% to the price you pay since the gear breaks so much easier then any of there older gear.

Frankly they should charge more for the gear and give a better warranty.

I am thankful that you had a positive experience, i pray i never have to email yoshi, but if i do i hope i have a positive experience. There is hope!!!

I have 2 boards on an S9B3 that first showed a few "x" here and there then, the 2 boards disappeared from the control panel.  I restarted, rebooted and reloaded firmware to no avail.  I worked with Bitmain and they had me do the troubleshooting and send them pics of the results, but it did not get the 2 boards hashing.  Bitmain said send them back to them.  I will be sending the 2 boards to Bitmain_Z(Denver, CO) to see if they can fix/replace them first.     

[aarons6]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

nice hash doesnt always mine bitcoin..

you can easily find a block within a couple seconds of starting up the miner.

also there is a bug in the s7 firmware that if you mine some alt coins, it thinks you find blocks when you dont.. i guess its the same with s9.

No look again.  It didn't mine on nicehash at all.  All shares were submitted to kano which means it was only ever mining BTC.  The diff of the highest share is too low to be a BTC block (plus kano pool did not indicate a block found by me).

its a bug. when you first turn on s7 and im guessing s9 it runs for a minute and restarts, clearing all the values except found blocks.. im almost certain it sent some shares into nh and found a block.

[not.you]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

nice hash doesnt always mine bitcoin..

you can easily find a block within a couple seconds of starting up the miner.

also there is a bug in the s7 firmware that if you mine some alt coins, it thinks you find blocks when you dont.. i guess its the same with s9.

No look again.  It didn't mine on nicehash at all.  All shares were submitted to kano which means it was only ever mining BTC.  The diff of the highest share is too low to be a BTC block (plus kano pool did not indicate a block found by me).

its a bug. when you first turn on s7 and im guessing s9 it runs for a minute and restarts, clearing all the values except found blocks.. im almost certain it sent some shares into nh and found a block.

I know what you are talking about where it runs for a short time and then restarts cgminer but that is from a power cycle restart, this was just me having restarted cgminer itself so it wouldn't have done the 30-60 sec restart.  I would be inclined to think it was an actual found block on multipool or nicehash but it shows no shares sent to either of those pools.  I suppose there is some outside chance it had failed over briefly and found a block and I didn't notice it before I restarted cgminer and it just didn't clear that stat but the found block really was before the cgminer restart.  One thing that makes that less plausible though is that my hashrate on kano has been steady for days and kano has had no server-side downtime.

This miner has a twice daily scripted cgminer restart with a freq change.  I usually check on it after the changes to make sure it is working ok.  The S9 next to it has been running for 24d and 22h and has never submitted a share to the backup pools.

[aarons6]

So what is the deal with posting images? I am unable to all of a sudden.




Why does this machine say it found a block?

https://s18.postimg.org/44ek61prt/How_Block.gif

nice hash doesnt always mine bitcoin..

you can easily find a block within a couple seconds of starting up the miner.

also there is a bug in the s7 firmware that if you mine some alt coins, it thinks you find blocks when you dont.. i guess its the same with s9.

No look again.  It didn't mine on nicehash at all.  All shares were submitted to kano which means it was only ever mining BTC.  The diff of the highest share is too low to be a BTC block (plus kano pool did not indicate a block found by me).

its a bug. when you first turn on s7 and im guessing s9 it runs for a minute and restarts, clearing all the values except found blocks.. im almost certain it sent some shares into nh and found a block.

I know what you are talking about where it runs for a short time and then restarts cgminer but that is from a power cycle restart, this was just me having restarted cgminer itself so it wouldn't have done the 30-60 sec restart.  I would be inclined to think it was an actual found block on multipool or nicehash but it shows no shares sent to either of those pools.  I suppose there is some outside chance it had failed over briefly and found a block and I didn't notice it before I restarted cgminer and it just didn't clear that stat but the found block really was before the cgminer restart.  One thing that makes that less plausible though is that my hashrate on kano has been steady for days and kano has had no server-side downtime.

This miner has a twice daily scripted cgminer restart with a freq change.  I usually check on it after the changes to make sure it is working ok.  The S9 next to it has been running for 24d and 22h and has never submitted a share to the backup pools.

on my s7 there is a file called getblk in the /config folder that has every single block and time stamp the machine has ever found..

if its on the s9 you can tell exactly when you found that block.. but im 100% sure its from NH and it was either a freak chance 1 share = 1 block thing or it failed over and when cgminer was restarted it cleared the values but kept the found block number.

my s7 doesnt actually clear the found blocks until you power off the machine or x amount of time passes, like 3 or 4 days.. or up to 15 blocks then it starts back to 0.


fun note, one of my s7s has found 11380 blocks..

[vortexz]

Hello.My hashboard arrived at Bitmain service, UPS says it was collected and signed by MR SUNG yesterday, 09.09.2016,
but on BITMAIN service ticket it is not updated as collected.Should I worry ?
I sent a mail to bitmain support regarding this

[Sierra8561]

Hello.My hashboard arrived at Bitmain service, UPS says it was collected and signed by MR SUNG yesterday, 09.09.2016,
but on BITMAIN service ticket it is not updated as collected.Should I worry ?
I sent a mail to bitmain support regarding this

It takes sometimes up to a week for them to update it.

[mamiakimo]

Hello.My hashboard arrived at Bitmain service, UPS says it was collected and signed by MR SUNG yesterday, 09.09.2016,
but on BITMAIN service ticket it is not updated as collected.Should I worry ?
I sent a mail to bitmain support regarding this

It takes sometimes up to a week for them to update it.

they update my ticket after a week with this


and send it to me
is that mean it repaired or replaced or what ?
they don't tell me anything