[Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain AntMiner S2 Setup [HD]

[dogie]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

 I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.

Thanks!

My pool shows 6 times less btc than I expected and also shows 20% shares accepted. When the machine first started (~24 hours ago) it was at 100% accepted. Is this pool's fault or machine? Any help would be appreciated. Machine shows that it is hashing at semi-normal speed (i have only 9 out of 10 boards functional).

Which pool?

[Biodom]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

 I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.

Thanks!

My pool shows 6 times less btc than I expected and also shows 20% shares accepted. When the machine first started (~24 hours ago) it was at 100% accepted. Is this pool's fault or machine? Any help would be appreciated. Machine shows that it is hashing at semi-normal speed (i have only 9 out of 10 boards functional).

Which pool?

Eligius

[dogie]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

 I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.

Thanks!

My pool shows 6 times less btc than I expected and also shows 20% shares accepted. When the machine first started (~24 hours ago) it was at 100% accepted. Is this pool's fault or machine? Any help would be appreciated. Machine shows that it is hashing at semi-normal speed (i have only 9 out of 10 boards functional).

Which pool?

Eligius

Try btcguild.

[Biodom]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

 I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.

Thanks!

My pool shows 6 times less btc than I expected and also shows 20% shares accepted. When the machine first started (~24 hours ago) it was at 100% accepted. Is this pool's fault or machine? Any help would be appreciated. Machine shows that it is hashing at semi-normal speed (i have only 9 out of 10 boards functional).

Which pool?

Eligius

Try btcguild.

Is this a known problem with s2 and eligius? I had mostly good experience with Eligius on S1, apart from sometimes delayed payouts.

[dogie]

Try btcguild.

Is this a known problem with s2 and eligius? I had mostly good experience with Eligius on S1, apart from sometimes delayed payouts.

No, its common sense. If you dont know if its your machine or a pool, try a different pool.

[Aexcu]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

Received the miner last night.  Usual case of boards all over the place.  Pulled everything out.  Checked all cables.  Reseated all boards.  Fired it up and configured it.  It's been hashing perfectly all night.  Right around the 1000GH/s mark, 53C, posting shares to BTCGuild as would be expected.  Just zero BestShare value.  Not that I'm concerned about this.  I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.  Just curious.

Thanks!

I have the same issue (BestShare at 0), latest firmware. Been hashing fine for a week otherwise.

Any clues?

[dogie]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

Received the miner last night.  Usual case of boards all over the place.  Pulled everything out.  Checked all cables.  Reseated all boards.  Fired it up and configured it.  It's been hashing perfectly all night.  Right around the 1000GH/s mark, 53C, posting shares to BTCGuild as would be expected.  Just zero BestShare value.  Not that I'm concerned about this.  I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.  Just curious.

Thanks!

I have the same issue (BestShare at 0), latest firmware. Been hashing fine for a week otherwise.

Any clues?

My 23 day uptime S2 is best share 0, its just not coded.

[TracerX]

Hey dogie, you running the stock PSU on that 23 day uptime, or did you upgrade first?

Cheers.

[Biodom]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

Received the miner last night.  Usual case of boards all over the place.  Pulled everything out.  Checked all cables.  Reseated all boards.  Fired it up and configured it.  It's been hashing perfectly all night.  Right around the 1000GH/s mark, 53C, posting shares to BTCGuild as would be expected.  Just zero BestShare value.  Not that I'm concerned about this.  I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.  Just curious.

Thanks!

I have the same issue (BestShare at 0), latest firmware. Been hashing fine for a week otherwise.

Any clues?

My 23 day uptime S2 is best share 0, its just not coded.

Funny enough, my partially busted S2 shows great share=~400000 in one hour (since last reboot). Too bad it doesn't mean anything.
Dogie-is it theoretically possible that one slot not hashing could be remedied by the software update? Since there is an obvious difference in how it handles best share, maybe there is a software glitch? Did you ever had a situation when asic non-hashing was fixed by the latest software update?

[ak49er]

My 23 day uptime S2 is best share 0, its just not coded.

Well that's what I was thinking, but I've seen other screen shots with a BestShare value.  I guess I should check my firmware revision.  If I can be bothered.  It is after all hashing quite nicely.

[dogie]

Hey dogie, you running the stock PSU on that 23 day uptime, or did you upgrade first?

Cheers.

Stock PSU, I have a big one if needs be but OC'ing appeared pointless due to the 200W for the next 100GH.

[dogie]

Anyone have any idea as to why my S2 is reporting zero as the BestShare?

Received the miner last night.  Usual case of boards all over the place.  Pulled everything out.  Checked all cables.  Reseated all boards.  Fired it up and configured it.  It's been hashing perfectly all night.  Right around the 1000GH/s mark, 53C, posting shares to BTCGuild as would be expected.  Just zero BestShare value.  Not that I'm concerned about this.  I'm getting paid for the shares I am submitting.  Just curious.

Thanks!

I have the same issue (BestShare at 0), latest firmware. Been hashing fine for a week otherwise.

Any clues?

My 23 day uptime S2 is best share 0, its just not coded.

Funny enough, my partially busted S2 shows great share=~400000 in one hour (since last reboot). Too bad it doesn't mean anything.
Dogie-is it theoretically possible that one slot not hashing could be remedied by the software update? Since there is an obvious difference in how it handles best share, maybe there is a software glitch? Did you ever had a situation when asic non-hashing was fixed by the latest software update?

Your slot won't get fixed, but its then likely the best share hits some sort of overflow and stops counting. So when the unit is first on its recording, then it just maxes out.

[freebit13]

My 23 day uptime S2 is best share 0, its just not coded.

Well that's what I was thinking, but I've seen other screen shots with a BestShare value.  I guess I should check my firmware revision.  If I can be bothered.  It is after all hashing quite nicely.

I have a best share value of 461 after only 30 mins of hashing.

[ak49er]

I have a best share value of 461 after only 30 mins of hashing.

I had zero after 12 hours.  I'll check to see if it's woken up when I get home tonight, but I doubt it.  I'm guessing you just got yours?  So I would have thought we'd both have the same firmware version.

[freebit13]

I have a best share value of 461 after only 30 mins of hashing.

I had zero after 12 hours.  I'll check to see if it's woken up when I get home tonight, but I doubt it.  I'm guessing you just got yours?  So I would have thought we'd both have the same firmware version.

Nope, mine's batch 2. I've just reconfigured something and restarted so it's only been up for 30 mins.

[ak49er]

I have a best share value of 461 after only 30 mins of hashing.

I had zero after 12 hours.  I'll check to see if it's woken up when I get home tonight, but I doubt it.  I'm guessing you just got yours?  So I would have thought we'd both have the same firmware version.

Nope, mine's batch 2. I've just reconfigured something and restarted so it's only been up for 30 mins.

Oh, OK.  What firmware version?  I'll check mine tonight out of curiosity.

[freebit13]

I have a best share value of 461 after only 30 mins of hashing.

I had zero after 12 hours.  I'll check to see if it's woken up when I get home tonight, but I doubt it.  I'm guessing you just got yours?  So I would have thought we'd both have the same firmware version.

Nope, mine's batch 2. I've just reconfigured something and restarted so it's only been up for 30 mins.

Oh, OK.  What firmware version?  I'll check mine tonight out of curiosity.

I've not updated anything since I got it:

Code:

Hardware Version	2.2.1.0
Kernel Version	Linux 3.8.13 #1 SMP Fri Jan 17 23:04:23 CST 2014
File System Version	Thu Apr 10 19:08:42 CST 2014
Cgminer Version	3.12.0

I'm waiting for some of Kano's magic 

[audiotopix]

Screenshot of the config page please, and of the network config page.

I actually got it working, turns out all I had to do was switch it to DCHP, and it started mining, However now I have discovered that one of my blades appear to not be Hashing.

This is what Im seeing,



So I switched the blade to a different slot, and the problem followed the blade, which tells me the motherboard slots are fine, It must be the blade thats defective, Or is it?



Any help here would be appreciated.

[freebit13]

Screenshot of the config page please, and of the network config page.

I actually got it working, turns out all I had to do was switch it to DCHP, and it started mining, However now I have discovered that one of my blades appear to not be Hashing.

This is what Im seeing,

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10154326_10203870585755679_6898127623355894977_n.jpg

So I switched the blade to a different slot, and the problem followed the blade, which tells me the motherboard slots are fine, It must be the blade thats defective, Or is it?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10336669_10203870585795680_5576105127305805725_n.jpg

Any help here would be appreciated.

^^^ Look for missing pieces, I was missing a resistor here:

[dogie]

Something weird is going on there. In the first picture only 9 blades are detected, with one faulty. In the second, 10 blades with 1 faulty. Something else is going on apart from that dodgey blade. Do you still get 9 with 9 good ones only in?