[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain AntMiner S1 Setup [HD]

[dogie]

Mine has been hashing all night overclocked to 200 on the stock fan with no ducting and both boards are at 48.

how do you overclock? just received mine today

nevermind - figured it out. Next Q though, what's a good pool to use? I like btcguild, but not sure if the pps fee is a bit too high at 7.5% ?

Use PPLNS, only 2.5%

[sidehack]

I mine with Ozcoin - it's a small pool anymore, but one of the oldest pools and until the last few months had a pretty large network share. Excellent IRC channel, good servers and reliable admins. Not sure how it compares to the giant trendy pools, but there's some good people mining on Oz.

Just placed an order for an AntMiner today, looking forward to getting it in and messing with it. I understand OC is mostly a matter of ssh and change the chip frequency settings?

Should have better prototypes for 750W server supply interface boards, with bells, whistles and screw terminals -and greatly reduced risk of fire hazards- sometime this weekend.

[CroverNo01]

I mine with Ozcoin - it's a small pool anymore, but one of the oldest pools and until the last few months had a pretty large network share. Excellent IRC channel, good servers and reliable admins. Not sure how it compares to the giant trendy pools, but there's some good people mining on Oz.

Just placed an order for an AntMiner today, looking forward to getting it in and messing with it. I understand OC is mostly a matter of ssh and change the chip frequency settings?

Should have better prototypes for 750W server supply interface boards, with bells, whistles and screw terminals -and greatly reduced risk of fire hazards- sometime this weekend.

Glad you got an order of to Bitman should be with you pretty soon hopefully and yeah SSH and change the freq, can play about with them I'm pretty sure they will be able to pushed further with some minor hardware changes to allow more power to the chips as just looking at the data sheet bitman provided and can see they can be pushed pretty high.

Looking forward to your server terminal boards really needing something for mine here in the UK, Best of luck and get some more photos up of the finished product

[sidehack]

Just got my GB3 AntMiner in today (amazing speed, I hadn't even been told it shipped yet) and this got me up and running. Thanks.

[dogie]

Just got my GB3 AntMiner in today (amazing speed, I hadn't even been told it shipped yet) and this got me up and running. Thanks.

No problem

[Bobs Yerunkle]

I noticed that when I removed the secondary board from my auction batch1 unit, the thermal paste is obviously machine-applied, with a dot of paste placed every cm or so. However, it was obvious that only some of this paste was in contact (flattened properly) and a few areas the dots of paste were clearly under little pressure as the paste had not spread out. It may be a good idea for everyone who receives a unit to check the tension of all the hex screws, and if necessary give them an extra twist to ensure full contact to the heatsink

+1

Good idea to take the time to take it apart and put it back together.
Screws needed snugging and the thermal paste was not uniformly covering some chip locations on S1 I was working with.

Also, Thanks Dogie!

[Delarock]

I've seen some pics of newer units... Did they replace the power connectors so you don't have to strip wires?

[klondike_bar]

I've seen some pics of newer units... Did they replace the power connectors so you don't have to strip wires?

I beleive they now include a 2" PCI connector lead thats screwed in for you now so that cables need not be butchered

[jermwerty]

I've seen some pics of newer units... Did they replace the power connectors so you don't have to strip wires?

I beleive they now include a 2" PCI connector lead thats screwed in for you now so that cables need not be butchered

Group buy #2 onwards included the PCI lead on a 2" pigtail.

Newest ANTs actually have the 6-pin PCI-E connector built onto the PCB!!!  Yay!

[ScaryHash]

Thanks dogie,

I've connected everything and I checked the log of the Antminer. I can see it on my network at 192.168.1.4 (yes I did change it's IP address), it's plugged into the router

I tried to enter my pool address,  stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334    ...and hit save and apply, but it just sits there and does not do anything...little spinner thing going.

Also, I get the following error:

Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: Alarm clock
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:10 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:14 2013 daemon.info sysinit: Alarm clock
Sun Dec  1 21:58:14 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'

I have no idea how to start cgminer on this thing. Is it automatic?? I went into the software and tried to start up cgminer, but nothing happens..

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[klondike_bar]

Thanks dogie,

I've connected everything and I checked the log of the Antminer. I can see it on my network at 192.168.1.4 (yes I did change it's IP address), it's plugged into the router

I tried to enter my pool address,  stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334    ...and hit save and apply, but it just sits there and does not do anything...little spinner thing going.

Also, I get the following error:

Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: bad address '0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org'
Sun Dec  1 21:58:00 2013 daemon.info sysinit: ntpd: could not resolve peer 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org, skipping
Sun Dec  1 21:58:04 2013 daemon.info sysinit: Alarm clock

I have no idea how to start cgminer on this thing. Is it automatic?? I went into the software and tried to start up cgminer, but nothing happens..

Any ideas would be appreciated.

your pools are set up wrong - leave out the "stratum+tcp://" and try again. Thats why the errors show it cycling pools and sounding the 'not connected' alarm

[ScaryHash]

Thank you very much Klondike_bar.

I just got it to work.

Much appreciated.

 

[pjl70]

Thank you very much for this guide. I just setup my first miner in 30 minutes. 

[dogie]

Thank you very much for this guide. I just setup my first miner in 30 minutes. 

No problem, enjoy

[salfter]

Just got my miner (from group buy #6) up and running a while ago.  I don't know if it's a typo or if something has changed, but the Ethernet port on the router is its WAN interface, not a LAN interface.  I needed to switch the WAN interface over to DHCP to get it to play nice with my home network.  Other than that, it was pretty straightforward.  Power is from a Corsair CX600M; the Kill-a-Watt says the rig is pulling about 400W, and the miner status page says it's doing about 179 GH/s.

It looks like cgminer's API port is only listening on localhost.  I'd like it to listen on the WAN port so the stats script I have on another box can see how it's running.  Where would this be configured?  I've not dug too deeply into the software just yet.

[klondike_bar]

Just got my miner (from group buy #6) up and running a while ago.  I don't know if it's a typo or if something has changed, but the Ethernet port on the router is its WAN interface, not a LAN interface.  I needed to switch the WAN interface over to DHCP to get it to play nice with my home network.  Other than that, it was pretty straightforward.  Power is from a Corsair CX600M; the Kill-a-Watt says the rig is pulling about 400W, and the miner status page says it's doing about 179 GH/s.

It looks like cgminer's API port is only listening on localhost.  I'd like it to listen on the WAN port so the stats script I have on another box can see how it's running.  Where would this be configured?  I've not dug too deeply into the software just yet.

I'm using the exact same PSU for 200GH/400MHz setting, using 4 wires per blade (ie: 14pin ATX mobo connector each)

GENERAL QUESTION: what pools and settings do people use? ghash.io has become dangerously large and I have moved my 600Gh of mining to eligius to do my small part. Right now reported hashrate seems on target, but just curious if people have opinions on best pool or settings w/ regrds to antminer

[salfter]

No custom firmware I am editing the miner config via ssh as per goxed's thread.

Link?  I've gone through the web interface and can't find anything there to tweak the miner configuration.  I'd like to change the cgminer API options to enable remote monitoring, but some overclocking might also be nice.

Edit: I think I found it here.

Edit #2: /etc/config/cgminer is where you can change cgminer's startup options.  This edit will do what I want:

Code:

option api_allow 'W:127.0.0.1,192.168.100.0/24'

Change the LAN subnet as appropriate for your network...or maybe "0.0.0.0/0" will work for any network.

[salfter]

GENERAL QUESTION: what pools and settings do people use? ghash.io has become dangerously large and I have moved my 600Gh of mining to eligius to do my small part. Right now reported hashrate seems on target, but just curious if people have opinions on best pool or settings w/ regrds to antminer

I've been using BTC Guild for a while to minimize variance, which may not be quite as good from a network-security standpoint (though they're currently less than a third of the network).  P2Pool would be the ultimate in decentralization.  I've used it in the past, but started running into performance issues on the hardware I had available.  I think I'd need to at least throw more RAM and/or an SSD at it to get bitcoind to respond in a more timely manner to the queries P2Pool throws at it.

[klondike_bar]

GENERAL QUESTION: what pools and settings do people use? ghash.io has become dangerously large and I have moved my 600Gh of mining to eligius to do my small part. Right now reported hashrate seems on target, but just curious if people have opinions on best pool or settings w/ regrds to antminer

I've been using BTC Guild for a while to minimize variance, which may not be quite as good from a network-security standpoint (though they're currently less than a third of the network).  P2Pool would be the ultimate in decentralization.  I've used it in the past, but started running into performance issues on the hardware I had available.  I think I'd need to at least throw more RAM and/or an SSD at it to get bitcoind to respond in a more timely manner to the queries P2Pool throws at it.

I moved to eligius and am seeing 590-600GH average from my 3 antminers (375,400,400 MHz)

[dogie]

GENERAL QUESTION: what pools and settings do people use? ghash.io has become dangerously large and I have moved my 600Gh of mining to eligius to do my small part. Right now reported hashrate seems on target, but just curious if people have opinions on best pool or settings w/ regrds to antminer

I've been using BTC Guild for a while to minimize variance, which may not be quite as good from a network-security standpoint (though they're currently less than a third of the network).  P2Pool would be the ultimate in decentralization.  I've used it in the past, but started running into performance issues on the hardware I had available.  I think I'd need to at least throw more RAM and/or an SSD at it to get bitcoind to respond in a more timely manner to the queries P2Pool throws at it.

I moved to eligius and am seeing 590-600GH average from my 3 antminers (375,400,400 MHz)

Everyone seems to be getting very good hash rate out of the units, yet to see any dead chips.