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March 08, 2021, 04:57:56 PM
Last edit: March 09, 2021, 01:33:29 AM by frodocooper
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As a noob I impulsively went and bought an Antminer S9 off Amazon. I set it up and it ran happily for several days. I felt it was too loud however and like a dope I replaced the outlet fan with a NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM fan which was much quieter but 100cfm instead of the 200cfm which it came with. The room temp where I have the unit is 17degrees C.

After a few days the hash rate started going down and now it tells me that bminer is not running after operating for a few minutes. Sometimes I see only one hashboard, sometimes I see none. Ultimately I get the following error:

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bmminer not found= 2135 root       0:00 grep bmminer
bmminer not found, restart bmminer ...

Have I toasted my hashing boards? Is there a way to tell beyond talking to the control board? Are they repairable with a soldering rework station?
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March 09, 2021, 04:15:04 AM
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Have I toasted my hashing boards?

Maybe, but unlikely, the miner has temp sensors that stop it from mining when temps go past a certain degree, if you have not disabled that then it's unlikely that you toasted them.

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Is there a way to tell beyond talking to the control board?

Yes you could measure the voltage and resistance of each individual chip using a multimeter, or buy a special fixture tool, but your problem seems like a bad control board, I believe that if you Sdcard the miner using recovery files and then flash 2017-2018 firmware your miner might just come back to life.

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Are they repairable with a soldering rework station?

If it's a bad heatsink or two, yes, you just need the adhesive and a heat gun, but this isn't a common fault with the S9s, usually, when an S9 hashboard is dead it's so because of a toasted chip or a few of them, which means you will need to order some chips and obviously a fixture tool which doesn't make much sense since this is just a single S9.

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