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

[MyRig]

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Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

[BITMAIN]

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[fusion0389]

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Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

That was fast, excellent service! Thank you

[philipma1957]

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Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

That is good. I am hoping my parts ordered on the 24th show soon.
I would like to,get the gear running again.

[fusion0389]

Prepaid UPS Shipping Label sent to you for the return.  Full Refund be provided to you.  Please check your ticket!

Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

That is good. I am hoping my parts ordered on the 24th show soon.
I would like to,get the gear running again.

After chatting further with support it seems that I need to either add some cooling to my environment or send my miners out for hosting. Right now I'm thinking about going the hosting route, idk if it makes BTC sense to add all kinds of cooling, that will just hurt my ROI.

[Unacceptable]

Prepaid UPS Shipping Label sent to you for the return.  Full Refund be provided to you.  Please check your ticket!

Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

That is good. I am hoping my parts ordered on the 24th show soon.
I would like to,get the gear running again.

After chatting further with support it seems that I need to either add some cooling to my environment or send my miners out for hosting. Right now I'm thinking about going the hosting route, idk if it makes BTC sense to add all kinds of cooling, that will just hurt my ROI.

Are you kidding??? Hosting will cost you ALOT more than a few little fans or even a one time $100-250 5000-12,000 btu window unit installed in a shed (& the electricity to power the ac unit) 

Pretty sure hosting is about $80+ a month or so & you earn ATM:

per Day   0.01459349 BTC   $9.24
per Week   0.10215440 BTC   $64.69
per Month   0.44418921 BTC   $281.31

Well,it don't look as bad as I thought,but it will get worse as diff rises fairly fast...........

[mountainminer333]

Hey all,
Was looking to get the community's feedback on an issue I've been experiencing with one of my S9's. One of the hashboards will xxxxxx out after being on a few hours. The PCB is 61C and the Chip is 90C. Each time I do a soft reset of the miner, the hashboard will work again but then stop after a few hours, sometimes less. I was thinking it may be a heat thing, but those temperatures appear ok. I've attached a screenshot. Quick note, it says it's running at 39,000 GH which is of course incorrect. I base the speed on the average reading. Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks all

http://www.mediafire.com/view/y2r8r398o4jsljr/screenshot-s9.jpg

[MyRig]

You may need Chain 3 PCB repaired/replaced

Hey all,
Was looking to get the community's feedback on an issue I've been experiencing with one of my S9's. One of the hashboards will xxxxxx out after being on a few hours. The PCB is 61C and the Chip is 90C. Each time I do a soft reset of the miner, the hashboard will work again but then stop after a few hours, sometimes less. I was thinking it may be a heat thing, but those temperatures appear ok. I've attached a screenshot. Quick note, it says it's running at 39,000 GH which is of course incorrect. I base the speed on the average reading. Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks all

[fusion0389]

Prepaid UPS Shipping Label sent to you for the return.  Full Refund be provided to you.  Please check your ticket!

Just received my fith S9 12.93, i ordered from Bitmain Warranty here in the USA. After booting it up, the first hashboard had unusually high temperatures. Even after reducing the clock speed to 550 the first hashboard was still running at 101. Meanwhile, the rest of my S9's are running under 100 at stock or close to stock clock speeds. I had to reduce the hashrate to 525 in order to get this machine to stay under 100 degrees... A bit abnormal if you ask me... I went ahead and submitted a request with Bitmain Warranty regarding the issue to see what we can do about this. Anyone else have similar experience?


https://flic.kr/p/MBLxh7

That is good. I am hoping my parts ordered on the 24th show soon.
I would like to,get the gear running again.

After chatting further with support it seems that I need to either add some cooling to my environment or send my miners out for hosting. Right now I'm thinking about going the hosting route, idk if it makes BTC sense to add all kinds of cooling, that will just hurt my ROI.

Are you kidding??? Hosting will cost you ALOT more than a few little fans or even a one time $100-250 5000-12,000 btu window unit installed in a shed (& the electricity to power the ac unit) 

Pretty sure hosting is about $80+ a month or so & you earn ATM:

per Day   0.01459349 BTC   $9.24
per Week   0.10215440 BTC   $64.69
per Month   0.44418921 BTC   $281.31

Well,it don't look as bad as I thought,but it will get worse as diff rises fairly fast...........

Well, you would be right if I was paying that much.

[smracer]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Sierra8561]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

[mamiakimo]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

that's why they don't have S9 on hashnest until now

[smracer]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

Any way to get the boards to works again?  When they have gone down they are all X's.  Then I restart and the hashboard doesn't even show up.  Nothing is burned and the red lights are on on the board.  Can I disconnect them for a while and try them again or any other tips? 

[philipma1957]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

Any way to get the boards to works again?  When they have gone down they are all X's.  Then I restart and the hashboard doesn't even show up.  Nothing is burned and the red lights are on on the board.  Can I disconnect them for a while and try them again or any other tips? 

sent a pm

[Sierra8561]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

Any way to get the boards to works again?  When they have gone down they are all X's.  Then I restart and the hashboard doesn't even show up.  Nothing is burned and the red lights are on on the board.  Can I disconnect them for a while and try them again or any other tips? 

I've had to send them all in for repair. Whether you choose sending them to Hong Kong for warranty or Denver is up to you. Hong Kong is free during you warranty period, Denver costs money but is much faster.

[Sierra8561]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

Any way to get the boards to works again?  When they have gone down they are all X's.  Then I restart and the hashboard doesn't even show up.  Nothing is burned and the red lights are on on the board.  Can I disconnect them for a while and try them again or any other tips? 

sent a pm

Do you know of a way Phil?

[philipma1957]

In 2 weeks of mining in a 70F warehouse I have now lost 3 boards out of 6 in the 2 S9's that I just got 2 weeks ago.

Is this normal?

I have bought over 150 S7's, 250 S5's and 300 S3's and never had this kind of failure rate.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Seems very high to me. I've had some boards go down, but nothing even remotely close to that percentage.

Any way to get the boards to works again?  When they have gone down they are all X's.  Then I restart and the hashboard doesn't even show up.  Nothing is burned and the red lights are on on the board.  Can I disconnect them for a while and try them again or any other tips? 

sent a pm

Do you know of a way Phil?

no  but NotFuzzyWarm may have done an in house repair on an inductor.

I also referred him to bitmainwarranty.com in USA vs bitmain.com in China

and my third board died today.  I had finally got all the parts from bitmainwarranty to do the controller repair and a board died 1 hour after I put the controller in.

I had 6 s9's Sold one to buy solar for the solar array it is flawless
SOLD 1 to a forum member it is flawless.
2 other running in the array flawless.  So 4 good

1 batch one has now tossed its second board
the batch nine first tossed a dashboard then tossed the controller.

so 3 dead boards and 1 dead controller.

I ordered 2 controllers on my dime
I ordered 2 fans on my dime  for super parts.

2 hash boards were replaced for shipping fees only
the dead controller i am using one of the controllers I paid for.

and I now must send the third hash board in for repair.

[Sierra8561]

One success I've found to keeping these S9's running relatively trouble free is set them up and leave them alone. I do not under any circumstances mess around with them unless absolutely necessary. I don't change clock frequency, fan speed etc depending on time of day or temp, nothing I just leave them alone.

Edit: Fortunately fall is in the air in my area and I hope to not have to mess with anything until summer.

[not.you]

I wonder if the extended unavailability on the website means a board redesign is in the works.  Judging by the network hashrate though I would bet large orders are still going out the door.

I have been lucky so far.  Other than one problematic, low hashing board, both of mine have been doing fine.  If I was to predict a board failure it would be that one board since it sometimes shows random X's that come and go if I try and run the unit at stock freq.  That one is a batch 3.  The other one I have is a batch 4 and it seems solid so far.  In fact with the cooling temps of autumn, I OC'd it to 606 and it has been doing fine with a solid 12.98 Th.  I was using a script to change freq on the B4 twice a day for the past few months without a problem.  I even had a utility power failure a week or so ago and everything came up fine after the power was restored.  But other than that power failure I haven't power cycled them more than once or twice each.

I did have one weird instance where both of them dropped two boards each.  One showed all boards fine but with two of them with zero hashrate, the other showed two boards all X's and zero hashrate.  But a simple cgminer restart worked, no power cycle was necessary.  Since they both puked at the same time I am inclined to believe it was either a power issue or a network issue, but a power problem seems less likely since none of my high-end UPS's in the same room logged anything weird at the time.  The miners are not actually on the UPS's since their power draw is a bit much and I need the UPS's for servers and the like.

I want to upgrade my last remaining S7 but I am holding out for something else at this point.  This S7 is one of the original 54 chip board ones and it OC's like a champ.  I have been getting over 5 Th from it from almost the very beginning (although the error rate has crept up over the months).  So I am not eager to let it go for something that seems likely to have a failure.  The S7 pricing and then the S9 release so soon after caused me to almost not get 100% ROI on the S7's before I started replacing them, but this one is making my S7 profit slowly grow beyond just a break even.

If bitmain came out with a new miner, even using the same chips, I would consider it after some time if the failure rate looked ok.  But right now I am thinking whatever Canaan comes up with is the one to wait for.

I do have to say though, bitmainwarranty in Denver has really increased my confidence level in bitmain overall lately.  Those guys have been doing what bitmain in China should have been doing all along in terms of responsiveness and customer service.  Even so, the S9 reliability looks too poor for me to get another right now.

[philipma1957]

One success I've found to keeping these S9's running relatively trouble free is set them up and leave them alone. I do not under any circumstances mess around with them unless absolutely necessary. I don't change clock frequency, fan speed etc depending on time of day or temp, nothing I just leave them alone.

Edit: Fortunately fall is in the air in my area and I hope to not have to mess with anything until summer.

yep try to leave them alone as much as you can.  I had the first five run trouble free for 75 days

all trouble came when I added the one in august.

I think the august one cam with a defective hashboard which in turn damaged the controller.

this caused me to have to do a lot of resets adjustments and I think I damaged the batch 1 unit.  So far two dashboards are dead  one last month now one today.  I will need to send in the dead board for repair as it is out of warranty.

so 4 perfect units

and 2 units bad
the batch one = 2 dead hash boards
the batch nine = 1 dead hash board + 1 controller

out of pocket so far 50 for shipping two hash boards 143 for a new controller

193 spent

I also spent 187 for other parts as spares.  I have a new controller extra I have 2 fans extra.


I will need to ship and repair the new dead hash board 650m style