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

[fanatic26]

Basically you have tied up your money for at least 4 weeks while you cannot hash.

Fixed.

[VTdude12]

Basically you have tied up your money for at least 4 weeks while you cannot hash.

Fixed.

Yup, totally aware...

I never "play" or "invest" (whatever you want to call it) with money I'm not willing to tie-up / lose.

[petrctale]

The latest firmware is awful.

I agree, flashed back to the old. Which one is working best for people???

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I'm responding to cause your post stated you flashed back hope you can help 😭

Hi question on that flashing back.   Got an R4, the firmware it came with allowed me to adjust the fan speed but not the freq, then I upgraded it to the newest ver that has auto adj freq and no fan adj.   so I tried to flash it back to the original  as i backed up and saved the original firmware and tried to reflash to that one . when finished it tells me "Tue Nov 29 06:13:18 EST 2016" .  and there's no fan adj.  tried to reset back to original setting with holding the reset button in for 15 sec it's  next to the ethernet connector and still nothing.. any ideas? or is there someplace I can download the firmwares for antminers? 

Currently working with 7 R4's  and 5 S9's.   heating the house to 81 degrees all day  lol   and it's 30 out 😀

Thanks so much in advance

[NotFuzzyWarm]

If you used Bitmains backup/restore functions in the GUI they only backup/restore your current settings and pool info. It does NOT make a backup of the firmware.

Which brings us to resetting the miner. That only resets settings including pool info back to Factory mode -- it does not restore the as-shipped firmware. AFAIK anytime you flash the firmware the previous version is gone for good.

[eduardo_rc]

Anybody knows where can I buy replacement fans? Bitmain page is sold until after Chinese New year.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Anybody knows where can I buy replacement fans? Bitmain page is sold until after Chinese New year.

For one, check Bitmain Warranty in CO. http://bitmainwarranty.com/ They carry them and being the USA they are open right now.

[clgrissom3]

I did not know these latest S9s on the Bitmain site had a 180 day warranty...did I read this right?

1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

[VRobb]

I did not know these latest S9s on the Bitmain site had a 180 day warranty...did I read this right?

1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

You read that right!  In fact, all miners sold since OCT 2016 have the 180day warranty - it's hiding somewhere on their site...

[clgrissom3]

I did not know these latest S9s on the Bitmain site had a 180 day warranty...did I read this right?

1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

You read that right!  In fact, all miners sold since OCT 2016 have the 180day warranty - it's hiding somewhere on their site...

Haha!  That's what I get for not buying S9s any more!

[VRobb]

I did not know these latest S9s on the Bitmain site had a 180 day warranty...did I read this right?

1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

You read that right!  In fact, all miners sold since OCT 2016 have the 180day warranty - it's hiding somewhere on their site...

Haha!  That's what I get for not buying S9s any more!

Here it is, under warranty for S9 purchase: "1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date. To avail this warranty a repair ticket must be generated by the customer on Bitmain's website. Overclocking the miner will void the warranty immediately."

Funny, the new FW's don't let you OC the S9's anymore, right?   

[eduardo_rc]

Anybody knows where can I buy replacement fans? Bitmain page is sold until after Chinese New year.

For one, check Bitmain Warranty in CO. http://bitmainwarranty.com/ They carry them and being the USA they are open right now.

Thanks man.

Anybody else had problems with defective fans? I have a new miner that overheats. All I can see is one of the fans won't run above 1900 rpm.

Could it be some other problem besides the fan?

[captinkid]

I did not know these latest S9s on the Bitmain site had a 180 day warranty...did I read this right?

1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

You read that right!  In fact, all miners sold since OCT 2016 have the 180day warranty - it's hiding somewhere on their site...

Haha!  That's what I get for not buying S9s any more!

Here it is, under warranty for S9 purchase: "1. A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date. To avail this warranty a repair ticket must be generated by the customer on Bitmain's website. Overclocking the miner will void the warranty immediately."

Funny, the new FW's don't let you OC the S9's anymore, right?  

You might be able to put on the pre autotune firmware, and then load the pic firmware from a pre autotune hash board, thus allowing full control over fans and mhz.

Not sure why you would want to, but you theoretically could.

Also I'd love an option to go with no warranty and 10% off the purchase price. Would be way better since their warranty is almost useless due to the shipping costs and difficulties.

 

[Biodom]

Also I'd love an option to go with no warranty and 10% off the purchase price. Would be way better since their warranty is almost useless due to the shipping costs and difficulties.

this would just incentivize them to move the worst performing machines into that category.
expect the unexpected.

[philipma1957]

Anybody knows where can I buy replacement fans? Bitmain page is sold until after Chinese New year.

For one, check Bitmain Warranty in CO. http://bitmainwarranty.com/ They carry them and being the USA they are open right now.

Thanks man.

Anybody else had problems with defective fans? I have a new miner that overheats. All I can see is one of the fans won't run above 1900 rpm.

Could it be some other problem besides the fan?

My newer unit has a fan that is very noisy .

My older unit has a fan that sounds sweet smooth etc.  and it dropped a board a week ago.

I would like to swap fans. And send the unit  back with a bum fan and a bum board.

I think I will talk to Yoshi from bitmainwarranty in USA asking him if he would let me do this.

[MyRig]

@philipma1957.....

phil, phil, phil.....

now days, fan is serial numbered as well for warranty purpose!!!  Its sad but we do see high number of attempts, purchase 1 unit after the old unit break, then attempt to claim warranty via recent purchase.  That trick sadly worked in the past...  we may be a slow learner but learned a lot

I would like to swap fans. And send the unit  back with a bum fan and a bum board.

I think I will talk to Yoshi from bitmainwarranty in USA asking him if he would let me do this.

[philipma1957]

@philipma1957.....

phil, phil, phil.....

now days, fan is serial numbered as well for warranty purpose!!!  Its sad but we do see high number of attempts, purchase 1 unit after the old unit break, then attempt to claim warranty via recent purchase.  That trick sadly worked in the past...  we may be a slow learner but learned a lot

I would like to swap fans. And send the unit  back with a bum fan and a bum board.

I think I will talk to Yoshi from bitmainwarranty in USA asking him if he would let me do this.

yeah and both are under warranty.  one is about  week old  and fan sounds really nasty.

the other is about 45 days old.  and has the dead board.

so as of now I have 3 of 4 boards mining.    to do it the way you want  for two units under  warranty.

   I need to ship both units back  correct?  lose  3 hashing boards for weeks.  pay shipping for  both units.

here are the orders both are under warranty.

 the new order has a bad fan (noisy with a grinding sound) and both boards work.
the old order has a bad board and the fan works

both are in warranty.

I was only looking to save your company money. and to save me hashpower.
here are the orders.  and these are the only r4's I have


This is 50 days old 1 dead board  but fan is good




Ten days old fan sounds bad boards are good

[TheYankeesWin!]

Phil  don't you have R4 issues? Not S9

[philipma1957]

Yeah  my problems are with R4's

Here is the r4 10-11 days old fan grinds  but boards  are good.






Here is the r4 51 days old fan is smooth but 1 board is bad.

[TheYankeesWin!]

So you only have the 2 r4's  both have an issue both are under warranty.

Your goal was to swap the  bad fan with the good fan.  to be able to just send in 1 machine.

Yoshi said no can do .  I think he misread what you were saying but I do understand him.  As bad people may try to frankenstein units to rob them.

In your case  both units are under warranty.  So you would be saving them a lot on shipping.  Sending two units to China  for repairs in your case  would be pretty dumb.

As you could put together one unit with a bad board and a bad fan and ship it for repairs it would save everyone on shipping.

It also would allow you to continue to mine with 7.5 th.

[philipma1957]

Yeah it would do just that.

I suppose I could just ship the dead board one in and wait for the fan to fully break on the newer unit.

I need to put all this into R4  section later. I am not doing anything until after Chinese New Years ends on Feb 3/4