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January 26, 2017, 01:24:28 AM
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The latest firmware is awful.
I agree, flashed back to the old. Which one is working best for people??? -----------------: 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 |
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January 26, 2017, 03:23:59 AM |
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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.
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eduardo_rc
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January 27, 2017, 02:25:54 PM |
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Anybody knows where can I buy replacement fans? Bitmain page is sold until after Chinese New year.
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January 27, 2017, 02:49:33 PM |
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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. |
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January 27, 2017, 02:49:44 PM |
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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. |
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January 27, 2017, 02:57:30 PM |
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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... |
I don't believe in superstition because it's bad luck: 13thF1oor6CAwyzyxXPNnRvu3nhhYeqZdc
These aren't the Droids you're looking for: S5 & S7 (Sold), R4B2, R4B4 (RIP), 2x S9 obsolete, 2xS15-28, S17-56, S17-70
Pushing a whopping 1/5 PH! Oh The SPEED!!!
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January 27, 2017, 03:02:43 PM |
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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!  |
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VRobb
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January 27, 2017, 03:09:50 PM |
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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?  |
I don't believe in superstition because it's bad luck: 13thF1oor6CAwyzyxXPNnRvu3nhhYeqZdc
These aren't the Droids you're looking for: S5 & S7 (Sold), R4B2, R4B4 (RIP), 2x S9 obsolete, 2xS15-28, S17-56, S17-70
Pushing a whopping 1/5 PH! Oh The SPEED!!!
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eduardo_rc
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January 27, 2017, 03:20:28 PM |
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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? |
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January 27, 2017, 05:28:34 PM |
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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.  |
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January 28, 2017, 04:57:15 AM |
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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. |
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January 28, 2017, 05:30:20 AM |
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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. |
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January 28, 2017, 04:29:32 PM |
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@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.
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January 28, 2017, 04:56:20 PM |
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@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 |
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January 28, 2017, 05:07:48 PM |
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Phil don't you have R4 issues? Not S9
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January 28, 2017, 05:09:19 PM |
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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.  |
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January 28, 2017, 05:18:37 PM |
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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.
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January 28, 2017, 05:21:02 PM |
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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
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NotFuzzyWarm
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January 29, 2017, 12:37:34 AM |
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I use Cryptoglance only for an at-a-glance view of how my miners are running at the pools. AFAIK it has not been updated in a while to support any vital miner control functions on the s9's on up...
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January 29, 2017, 12:51:09 AM |
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I had a board repaired at the bitmainwarranty, but it still isn't working correctly.
It occassionally keeps dropping to zero hash rate and asic status shows a full row of x's.
Reboot fixes it again for a variable amount of time.
I've tried different communication port on the controller and the problematic board only moves to a different chain and the controller in functioning normally.
I'm keeping in touch with bitmainwarranty to find out a good solution, but as a back-up plan I was wondering if someone here would be familiar with a script for restarting the cgminer/bmminer in case of some of the boards dropping to a zero hash rate?
This is a 11.85Th/s 550M pre-autotune model.
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