ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread

[Zelek Uther]

Got my two s2's today. Both where fucked up inside, Cards everywhere, bent pci slots. Plastic thingy holding the cards had about 50% survival rate.
After assembling them back together one did not start and one worked at 650Ghs. After some hours of trying different things I got two new PSU's, XFX Black Edition 1250W and RECOM 1600W(Overkill but had it laying around) One are stable at 1Ths the other is working at 920ghs with row 10 showing only lines.

I feel the s2 is a step down from s1 when it comes to build quality and overall design.
Next time pack each cards individually with bubblewrap and stick them inside the miner. Shipping the miner with the cards already in their slot is borderline retarded. 

mine arrived fine, and had rubber strips in the lid designed to keep the cards tight in the slots. The damaged units must be going through some rough handling - maybe a 'this side up' is necessary?

Ditto. Maybe I got lucky... my batch 2 S2 arrived in perfect condition.

[thomashrev89]

Got my two s2's today. Both where fucked up inside, Cards everywhere, bent pci slots. Plastic thingy holding the cards had about 50% survival rate.
After assembling them back together one did not start and one worked at 650Ghs. After some hours of trying different things I got two new PSU's, XFX Black Edition 1250W and RECOM 1600W(Overkill but had it laying around) One are stable at 1Ths the other is working at 920ghs with row 10 showing only lines.

I feel the s2 is a step down from s1 when it comes to build quality and overall design.
Next time pack each cards individually with bubblewrap and stick them inside the miner. Shipping the miner with the cards already in their slot is borderline retarded. 

mine arrived fine, and had rubber strips in the lid designed to keep the cards tight in the slots. The damaged units must be going through some rough handling - maybe a 'this side up' is necessary?

Both had rubber strips under the lid, the idea is good but it did not hold.

[mdopro1]

My Batch 3 is on it's way.

Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 04/29/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Anchorage, AK, United States, Monday, 04/28/2014

Anchorage is too far so it might not deliver tomorrow. Hope it gets here in 1 to 10 pieces and not like other people's miners. I'll report back if they have learnt something from high number of UPS claims.

[rodeoclownicp]

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

[xZork]

ctrl+print screen = copies your whole screen to the clipboard

crtl+alt+print screen = copies only the active window to the clipboard

[ak49er]

My Batch 3 is on it's way.

Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 04/29/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Anchorage, AK, United States, Monday, 04/28/2014

Anchorage is too far so it might not deliver tomorrow. Hope it gets here in 1 to 10 pieces and not like other people's miners. I'll report back if they have learnt something from high number of UPS claims.

Where are you that Anchorage is too far?  Packages from Bitmain arrive in Anchorage, get shipped to California or Kentucky for customs clearance, get shipped back to Anchorage, put on another plane down to a town near me and are delivered by the end of the day.  If you're in the US and they're in Anchorage you'll get them tomorrow.

[whonesta]

BFL Josh - Inaba reminded me that "we" do not say enough nice things about our experiences in the forums.

I LOVE my antMiner Products.

I own 12 S1's and an S2 -- ALL run to spec and S2 had minor issues upon arrival due to HOW FAST they ship. 3 DAYS! from China to Mid-west, USA unreal, what a world. BitmainTech does get busy, but their delivery rate and ON TIME performance suggests they are busy working to satisfy ME..  or yews..

BitmainTech is 100% miner friendly,

IMHO..

[innoman]

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

With Win7/8 (maybe XP?), use the snipping tool that is built in.  Just search for snip and it should be the first thing. It's REALLY easy and you can select exactly what you want to screenshot. 

On a Mac,  Command + Shift + 4 to select a specific region-saves to desktop.

[bitmanaus]

BFL Josh - Inaba reminded me that "we" do not say enough nice things about our experiences in the forums.

I LOVE my antMiner Products.

I own 12 S1's and an S2 -- ALL run to spec and S2 had minor issues upon arrival due to HOW FAST they ship. 3 DAYS! from China to Mid-west, USA unreal, what a world. BitmainTech does get busy, but their delivery rate and ON TIME performance suggests they are busy working to satisfy ME..  or yews..

BitmainTech is 100% miner friendly,

IMHO..

really? My S2 batch 2 S2 may as well have come flat packed with all the cards fallen over with bent pci slots as it was. I have since fixed all this, plus replaced all the fans (one fan was broken and couldn't get a matching one), all fans are now running a nice constant speed and are powered by a bitspower x-station fan control unit running off the factory power supply, i would have replaced the factory supply with something a bit bigger but one of the pins on my mainboard was badly damaged and the only pci-e 6 pin cable i can get to fit is the enermax one that came out of it. So i'm stuck with the underpowered power supply, which for the first few days kept turning itself off, the orientation of the psu is all wrong, the intake just sucks in warm air from the asic boards causing the psu to overheat, so have rotated the psu and cut a nice hold in the side of the case and added a fan grill and dust filter and it has not had power problems since. I had a problem with the sdcard corrupting itself and had to steal the sdcard out of my partners phone to fix it at 2am still haven't replaced her music (sorry bub) now i keep a copy of the sdcard should it have problems again. thinking of making a hatch in the top of the unit so i can pop the sdcard out if i ever need to power down the unit as this would avoid corruption it seems and also wouldn't have to take the case off, maybe a hinged steel lid. The device reports an average hash rate of 1008GH/s but the pool speed actually reports between 800-900 overall not really impressed. I could have had a coincraft unit for less and had less problems. My next unit is a Spondoolies SP30 Sorry Bitmain i had such high hopes for the S2, but 10+ days late and broken has left me less than impressed

[bitmanaus]

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

if your using windows (or a mac) a great little program is Duck Link Screen Capture http://www.ducklink.com/

it just sits next to your clock on the windows task bar and when you roll over it gives you the screen capture options, it can do rolling screen shots, selected area etc. etc. and once captured you have the easy link to save the file of copy to the clipboard

I use it all the time much more versatile than Print Screen

[rodeoclownicp]

i am not getting $31 a day, i am on btc guild, any suggestions

You can't really calculate in $ due to the price fluctuations... with 1TH/s, you should be making just under 0.08btc/day until the next diff change.

If you're new to BTC Guild, it'll take some time for your daily earnings to increase.

BTCG's luck (my luck?) has been horrendous lately. I finally had to take my hash to GHash.io. Don't worry though, now that I'm not at BTCG, the pool luck is guaranteed to instantly and dramatically improve. And if someone reading this is currently mining at GHash.io, it might be time for you to move to a different pool. I'm sure to ruin it for everyone.   

Still don't understand why people mine on either of those pools.  Eligius is fine minus a few stalled payout glitches.  Slush has been bulletproof as of late, and even Bitminter has been on an absolute TEAR recently.

Get off those bitcoin hazards!!!

anybody know about demon pool just got a random invite

[Zelek Uther]

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

AFAIK all images must be hosted off-site on something like imgur or imageshack. Then you imbed the image in your post using the img and /img bbcodes (put square brackets around them).

[freebit13]

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

Download MWSnap...

[freebit13]

Got my two s2's today. Both where fucked up inside, Cards everywhere, bent pci slots. Plastic thingy holding the cards had about 50% survival rate.
After assembling them back together one did not start and one worked at 650Ghs. After some hours of trying different things I got two new PSU's, XFX Black Edition 1250W and RECOM 1600W(Overkill but had it laying around) One are stable at 1Ths the other is working at 920ghs with row 10 showing only lines.

I feel the s2 is a step down from s1 when it comes to build quality and overall design.
Next time pack each cards individually with bubblewrap and stick them inside the miner. Shipping the miner with the cards already in their slot is borderline retarded. 

I had the same and found that the card that wasn't registering was missing one of the tiny resistors ("0") closest to the pci connection on the board. I replaced the resistor with some pencil and some silver conductive paint and it's working fine for a week now.

[BITMAIN]

Announcement: Batch 4 ANTMINER S2 Sales Open
www.bitmaintech.com

Shipping on May 8th, Official price $2,599 for global market. Sales open at 20:00pm BeiJing time Apr 29th GMT+8.
Coupon Rain Notice: $400 off coupons are available for all previous S1 & S2 orders.

[Zelek Uther]

Announcement: Batch 4 ANTMINER S2 Sales Open
www.bitmaintech.com

Shipping on May 8th, Official price $2,599 for global market. Sales open at 20:00pm BeiJing time Apr 29th GMT+8.
Coupon Rain Notice: $400 off coupons are available for all previous S1 & S2 orders.

Awesome!  Can't wait to see a $400 voucher in my account!

[pedrosoft]

Announcement: Batch 4 ANTMINER S2 Sales Open
www.bitmaintech.com

Shipping on May 8th, Official price $2,599 for global market. Sales open at 20:00pm BeiJing time Apr 29th GMT+8.
Coupon Rain Notice: $400 off coupons are available for all previous S1 & S2 orders.

Awesome!  Can't wait to see a $400 voucher in my account!

with coupon old costumers have to pay 5 btc for 1 Tera/hash. with 15% of difficulty jumps, profit is 1-1.5 Btc MAX

[freebit13]

Batch4 btc price is higher than Batch2... ouch!

[smooth]

Batch4 btc price is higher than Batch2... ouch!

What? I paid 5.5 for batch 2 and that was about the minimum, most paid more. Batch 3 looks like to be right around 5 with the coupon.

Worse deal given the difficulty increases though.

[smooth]

Announcement: Batch 4 ANTMINER S2 Sales Open
www.bitmaintech.com

Shipping on May 8th, Official price $2,599 for global market. Sales open at 20:00pm BeiJing time Apr 29th GMT+8.
Coupon Rain Notice: $400 off coupons are available for all previous S1 & S2 orders.

Why does my account only show $100 off coupon, not $400?