A4 Dominator - Pre-Order Group Buy - 280mh, roughly 1000w, $1800 + shipping

[Eyedol-X]

I just received new firmware from Dominique @ Innosillicon.  V1.0.3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuyz1r7cy4pkeir/G5-20-V1.0.3.rar?dl=0

I am testing now.  

To be honest I have had no troubles with version 1.0.0(T) as long as the machines run in a cold environment.

If anyone is interested I have had them on MRR for the past couple days so you can see my hash rate here:   http://rig.rent/rigs/34677

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Update:  2hrs hashing with new firmware on half my units.  No dropped cards or cgminer restarts

Update #2:  After 4hrs the cgminer in the newest firmware stops/restarts automatically.  All hash boards were running after restart.  Hash rate seems to be a little better with this version.  Will run and see how it does over the next 24 hrs.

Is this update for batch 1 or batch 2.. Thanks..

I believe its batch 2 because batch 1 miners have a software version that starts with 0.0.1, 0.0.2, etc

[Xunknown]

I just received new firmware from Dominique @ Innosillicon.  V1.0.3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuyz1r7cy4pkeir/G5-20-V1.0.3.rar?dl=0

I am testing now.  

To be honest I have had no troubles with version 1.0.0(T) as long as the machines run in a cold environment.

If anyone is interested I have had them on MRR for the past couple days so you can see my hash rate here:   http://rig.rent/rigs/34677

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Update:  2hrs hashing with new firmware on half my units.  No dropped cards or cgminer restarts

Update #2:  After 4hrs the cgminer in the newest firmware stops/restarts automatically.  All hash boards were running after restart.  Hash rate seems to be a little better with this version.  Will run and see how it does over the next 24 hrs.

Is this update for batch 1 or batch 2.. Thanks..

My units are batch 2.  Not sure if the latest firmware will work on batch 1 or not.

Now a little over 12 hrs later with V1.0.3 on 2 of my controllers and no dropped cards.  One of them currently has a run time of 5h26m so I know they are still stopping/starting but my original thought of once every 4 hrs seems to be wrong.  Hash rate with the new firmware is about the same.  I will continue to test for another 12 hrs before changing my other controllers/units to the newest firmware.

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[Longsnowsm]

This is still disturbing that we are seeing so many restarts with the latest release.  I am glad you are not seeing dropped cards.  How many units do you have running this newest release? 

[Eyedol-X]

I just received new firmware from Dominique @ Innosillicon.  V1.0.3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuyz1r7cy4pkeir/G5-20-V1.0.3.rar?dl=0

I am testing now.  

To be honest I have had no troubles with version 1.0.0(T) as long as the machines run in a cold environment.

If anyone is interested I have had them on MRR for the past couple days so you can see my hash rate here:   http://rig.rent/rigs/34677

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Update:  2hrs hashing with new firmware on half my units.  No dropped cards or cgminer restarts

Update #2:  After 4hrs the cgminer in the newest firmware stops/restarts automatically.  All hash boards were running after restart.  Hash rate seems to be a little better with this version.  Will run and see how it does over the next 24 hrs.

Is this update for batch 1 or batch 2.. Thanks..

My units are batch 2.  Not sure if the latest firmware will work on batch 1 or not.

Now a little over 12 hrs later with V1.0.3 on 2 of my controllers and no dropped cards.  One of them currently has a run time of 5h26m so I know they are still stopping/starting but my original thought of once every 4 hrs seems to be wrong.  Hash rate with the new firmware is about the same.  I will continue to test for another 12 hrs before changing my other controllers/units to the newest firmware.

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Thanks for this information.

I'm interested to hear what you report after 72 and 96 hours.

[Master12210]

nice to see 1.0.3 but when i try to start the miner i get Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed but status is running?? v 1.0.2 and v 1.0.0 works?

[excelerator]

I just received new firmware from Dominique @ Innosillicon.  V1.0.3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuyz1r7cy4pkeir/G5-20-V1.0.3.rar?dl=0

I am testing now.  

To be honest I have had no troubles with version 1.0.0(T) as long as the machines run in a cold environment.

If anyone is interested I have had them on MRR for the past couple days so you can see my hash rate here:   http://rig.rent/rigs/34677

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Update:  2hrs hashing with new firmware on half my units.  No dropped cards or cgminer restarts

Brave miner!  Renting it out when stability hasn't settled certainly takes confidence.  I saw that as soon as it was rented it crashed immediately.

Appreciate you sharing this as it's the first visual evidence I've seen of extended stability.   With the dropping price and increasing stability this machine is becoming interesting for purchase.

[Master12210]

nice to see 1.0.3 but when i try to start the miner i get Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed but status is running?? v 1.0.2 and v 1.0.0 works?

NVM must have gotten a bad download or something re downloaded and re installed image and working fingers crossed!!

[Master12210]

Here is my update on 1.0.3 30 minutes later still hashing with out any software resets normally my miner resets software on 1.0.2 after 20-25 minutes, I also noticed a 5 MH/s increase per blade, and also a 1-2 degree increase on temp but that could contribute to increased Atmospheric pressure from last week

[Xunknown]

This is still disturbing that we are seeing so many restarts with the latest release.  I am glad you are not seeing dropped cards.  How many units do you have running this newest release? 

I have 6 units total - 12 hashing units.  Currently only half of them are running on the new firmware.  2 controllers running 6 hashing units.  I'm not too worried about the cgminer stop/restart as long as it is not happening too often.  When I briefly ran 1.0.2 i was seeing restarts every 22-23 minutes.  This was too often and caused a loss of overall hash power.

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[Xunknown]

nice to see 1.0.3 but when i try to start the miner i get Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed but status is running?? v 1.0.2 and v 1.0.0 works?

You will see this error on a power cycle restart until the controller starts communicating with the boards.  On a power cycle it takes my controllers a minute or two to link to the hash boards.  Just give it a few minutes and it should go away.  With batch 2 units the lights on the back will flash until the controller connects to them then the lights go solid.

While the miner is running if/when it decides to do a cgminer restart you will see this message for about 30 seconds until it starts hashing again.

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[Xunknown]

Brave miner!  Renting it out when stability hasn't settled certainly takes confidence.  I saw that as soon as it was rented it crashed immediately.

Appreciate you sharing this as it's the first visual evidence I've seen of extended stability.   With the dropping price and increasing stability this machine is becoming interesting for purchase.

Actually renting has worked out quite nice for testing.  In the latest rental the renter kept switching his pool setup.  This gave me a chance to see what would happen when the miner is "stressed".  Turns out during this 3 hrs the miners with the new firmware did fine.  The miners running 1.0.0(T) all 3 had missing hash board after the renter's abuse.  In the last hour the renter seemed to just have given up and deleted all pool settings.  All the miners reverted to my backup pool, however the miners in 1.0.0(T) needed manual stop - 30 second delay - manual restart to get all the boards hashing again.

I'm going to run it another 12-24 hrs like it is now and then switch the rest of the miners to the new firmware.  Then I think I will try stressing it myself by running on nicehash or some multipool to see if it can handle it.  I will keep updating this thread, but at this point I think the new firmware is working well.

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[Master12210]

nice to see 1.0.3 but when i try to start the miner i get Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed but status is running?? v 1.0.2 and v 1.0.0 works?

You will see this error on a power cycle restart until the controller starts communicating with the boards.  On a power cycle it takes my controllers a minute or two to link to the hash boards.  Just give it a few minutes and it should go away.  With batch 2 units the lights on the back will flash until the controller connects to them then the lights go solid.

While the miner is running if/when it decides to do a cgminer restart you will see this message for about 30 seconds until it starts hashing again.

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Yes but it never communicated with the controller the file that was downloaded was corrupted

[Master12210]

Brave miner!  Renting it out when stability hasn't settled certainly takes confidence.  I saw that as soon as it was rented it crashed immediately.

Appreciate you sharing this as it's the first visual evidence I've seen of extended stability.   With the dropping price and increasing stability this machine is becoming interesting for purchase.

Actually renting has worked out quite nice for testing.  In the latest rental the renter kept switching his pool setup.  This gave me a chance to see what would happen when the miner is "stressed".  Turns out during this 3 hrs the miners with the new firmware did fine.  The miners running 1.0.0(T) all 3 had missing hash board after the renter's abuse.  In the last hour the renter seemed to just have given up and deleted all pool settings.  All the miners reverted to my backup pool, however the miners in 1.0.0(T) needed manual stop - 30 second delay - manual restart to get all the boards hashing again.

I'm going to run it another 12-24 hrs like it is now and then switch the rest of the miners to the new firmware.  Then I think I will try stressing it myself by running on nicehash or some multipool to see if it can handle it.  I will keep updating this thread, but at this point I think the new firmware is working well.

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1.0.3 for me has crashed went to bed with 1h15 min on the elapsed time to waking up to 10 minutes, all blades are still there

[Longsnowsm]

I just checked with Chloe about the BTC exchange rate and at this time they are still asking for the high premium to use BTC.  So I will be holding off doing anything more unless the exchange rate comes closer in line with the current BTC price.  I can understand asking for a little buffer to take into account price fluctuation, but the huge price difference being asked is more than I am willing to pay. 

I see a couple more batches of S9's are being released. 

[Eyedol-X]

I see a couple more batches of S9's are being released. 

Ewwwww

[TracerX]

Brave miner!  Renting it out when stability hasn't settled certainly takes confidence.  I saw that as soon as it was rented it crashed immediately.

Appreciate you sharing this as it's the first visual evidence I've seen of extended stability.   With the dropping price and increasing stability this machine is becoming interesting for purchase.

Actually renting has worked out quite nice for testing.  In the latest rental the renter kept switching his pool setup.  This gave me a chance to see what would happen when the miner is "stressed".  Turns out during this 3 hrs the miners with the new firmware did fine.  The miners running 1.0.0(T) all 3 had missing hash board after the renter's abuse.  In the last hour the renter seemed to just have given up and deleted all pool settings.  All the miners reverted to my backup pool, however the miners in 1.0.0(T) needed manual stop - 30 second delay - manual restart to get all the boards hashing again.

I'm going to run it another 12-24 hrs like it is now and then switch the rest of the miners to the new firmware.  Then I think I will try stressing it myself by running on nicehash or some multipool to see if it can handle it.  I will keep updating this thread, but at this point I think the new firmware is working well.

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1.0.3 for me has crashed went to bed with 1h15 min on the elapsed time to waking up to 10 minutes, all blades are still there

Did you see a drop in your hash rate on the pool?

[Inno_ASIC]

Hey guys, v1.0.3 is not released yet. Some customers asked so we sent the intermediate version to  them for a test. They posted the feedback here directly rather than getting back to us... Anyway, we have addressed the software issue and new firmware for batch 2 will be released within 24 hours.

[Master12210]

Brave miner!  Renting it out when stability hasn't settled certainly takes confidence.  I saw that as soon as it was rented it crashed immediately.

Appreciate you sharing this as it's the first visual evidence I've seen of extended stability.   With the dropping price and increasing stability this machine is becoming interesting for purchase.

Actually renting has worked out quite nice for testing.  In the latest rental the renter kept switching his pool setup.  This gave me a chance to see what would happen when the miner is "stressed".  Turns out during this 3 hrs the miners with the new firmware did fine.  The miners running 1.0.0(T) all 3 had missing hash board after the renter's abuse.  In the last hour the renter seemed to just have given up and deleted all pool settings.  All the miners reverted to my backup pool, however the miners in 1.0.0(T) needed manual stop - 30 second delay - manual restart to get all the boards hashing again.

I'm going to run it another 12-24 hrs like it is now and then switch the rest of the miners to the new firmware.  Then I think I will try stressing it myself by running on nicehash or some multipool to see if it can handle it.  I will keep updating this thread, but at this point I think the new firmware is working well.

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1.0.3 for me has crashed went to bed with 1h15 min on the elapsed time to waking up to 10 minutes, all blades are still there

Did you see a drop in your hash rate on the pool?

Looking at the pools stats yes the hash rate did drop but came back rather quick but is noticeable. Still better than having to power cycle the unit

[wheelz1200]

I just checked with Chloe about the BTC exchange rate and at this time they are still asking for the high premium to use BTC.  So I will be holding off doing anything more unless the exchange rate comes closer in line with the current BTC price.  I can understand asking for a little buffer to take into account price fluctuation, but the huge price difference being asked is more than I am willing to pay. 

I see a couple more batches of S9's are being released. 

I agree, i know btc can be volitile but to have a static btc price is crazy.  I know they are involved in other ventures, but being that they are "dedicated" to making and supporting home bitcoin miners, i would think they would be more up with btc than what it seems like at this point.  Does anyone have the contact info for chloe?

[Longsnowsm]

Here is the contact info for Chloe:

Chloe Zhang
+86 18040500320
Innosilicon Technology Ltd.
www.innosilicon.com.cn
zhangq@innosilicon.com.cn