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

[Truman]

I have still the problem with loosing settings after reboot!

Any help for me? How to manilulate the firmware for example?

[Rabinovitch]

What FW version do you use? Is this problem exist with latest Bitmain FW? Have you tried it?

How to manilulate the firmware for example?

Hmm... System->Upgrade->Flash new firmware image

[Truman]

What FW version do you use? Is this problem exist with latest Bitmain FW? Have you tried it?

How to manilulate the firmware for example?

Hmm... System->Upgrade->Flash new firmware image

Of course i did... (=

Still the same problem!

[dogie]

What FW version do you use? Is this problem exist with latest Bitmain FW? Have you tried it?

How to manilulate the firmware for example?

Hmm... System->Upgrade->Flash new firmware image

Of course i did... (=

Still the same problem!

You using your own SD card or the original?

[Truman]

What FW version do you use? Is this problem exist with latest Bitmain FW? Have you tried it?

How to manilulate the firmware for example?

Hmm... System->Upgrade->Flash new firmware image

Of course i did... (=

Still the same problem!

You using your own SD card or the original?

I have tried both, same problem.

Is there any way to modifiy the firmware directly and set network to dhcp and my pool data?

[d2dtk]

Pushing my S2 to 221MHZ has my hardware error rate through the roof! 1.02% compared to running at a lower Mhz rate.

Rejected shares a extremely low. Accepted shares are higher than before the increase.

Any suggestions?

[dogie]

Pushing my S2 to 221MHZ has my hardware error rate through the roof! 1.02% compared to running at a lower Mhz rate.

Rejected shares a extremely low. Accepted shares are higher than before the increase.

Any suggestions?

1% is still nothing. Literally, nothing.

[dogie]

What FW version do you use? Is this problem exist with latest Bitmain FW? Have you tried it?

How to manilulate the firmware for example?

Hmm... System->Upgrade->Flash new firmware image

Of course i did... (=

Still the same problem!

You using your own SD card or the original?

I have tried both, same problem.

Is there any way to modifiy the firmware directly and set network to dhcp and my pool data?

Yes, people are running custom compiled firmware but its not something I can do, sorry.

[d2dtk]

1% is still nothing. Literally, nothing.

Yeah I figured it wasn't something I should worrie too much about but it still was concerning since I was used to it being ~.02%

I might step it up a little higher and see how far I can push it. Hopefully I don't burn out the chips 

[btckold24]

I purchased one of these second hand and have already configured 2 x s1's.


It arrived and it powers on but the LED doesnt light up which is why I think I cant get the miner configured. I see no where on the back panel where  anything can be plugged into the LED. Should something be plugged into it? cause if so there no where on the green board (backside of the led where something could even plug in) I am just not sure what I can do if the LED is not functional

any help would be appreciated

[dogie]

I purchased one of these second hand and have already configured 2 x s1's.


It arrived and it powers on but the LED doesnt light up which is why I think I cant get the miner configured. I see no where on the back panel where  anything can be plugged into the LED. Should something be plugged into it? cause if so there no where on the green board (backside of the led where something could even plug in) I am just not sure what I can do if the LED is not functional

any help would be appreciated

You mean the LCD? It plugs into the controller board which is the middle card. If the controller board isn't booting, then no you won't be able to configure. You may need to reformat the SD card and reimage the OS.

[dogie]

Updated and reprocessed pictures.

[darthvictor]

My antminer runs fine for about 15 minutes then it starts beeping and stops hashing. The status page shows that some blades are at 255 degrees: https://i.imgur.com/5kDEkuY.png
It should be well ventilated so I'm not sure what is wrong with the temperature reading. I also unchecked the "Stop running when temprerature is over 80℃" box. 2 of the blue 16v capacitors fell off from the main board during shipping and 1 of the red 2.5v capacitor fell off from one of the blades. Any thoughts on how to keep it running continuously?

[d2dtk]

My antminer runs fine for about 15 minutes then it starts beeping and stops hashing. The status page shows that some blades are at 255 degrees:
It should be well ventilated so I'm not sure what is wrong with the temperature reading. I also unchecked the "Stop running when temprerature is over 80℃" box. 2 of the blue 16v capacitors fell off from the main board during shipping and 1 of the red 2.5v capacitor fell off from one of the blades. Any thoughts on how to keep it running continuously?

Pull the bad blades and contact Bitmain for a RMA. With the bad blades removed these units will continue to hash on but at a reduced hashing speed.

[FromSmyrna]

Antminer S2 Miner Configuration Problem
(I'm sorry my bad english speak ....)

[dogie]

Reimage your SD card. Same instructions but for windows use an SD card imager https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515448.msg6315538#msg6315538

[d2dtk]

Antminer S2 Miner Configuration Problem
(I'm sorry my bad english speak ....)

What version of the firmware?

[FromSmyrna]

What version of the firmware?

https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=00720140413044945482bs4xshkh072D

FileName = initramfs.bin.SD-20140619.tar

[FromSmyrna]

no cgminer

[d2dtk]

I'm now getting the same issue as the above user. Anyone notice that the hardware is x.x.x.x and no cgminer?

Any fixes?