ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[notlist3d]

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Electry problem is ?

Look at post right above yours.  Bitmain has a great support team.  They even gave you a personal invitation to contact them.    I highly suggest doing it and giving them a try.  I would stop posting until you give support a chance, it just looks like spam as many have said.

There is webpage:
https://bitmain.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Skype:
BitmainEnglish

And email:
support@bitmain.zendesk.com  

Just to name a few ways to contact them.

*Edit appears his post is no longer there.

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[Mikestang]

Thank you for sharing your experience!

For Bitcoin Mining, Please Please Invest GOOD $ in a GOOD STRONG PSU such as 80 Plus Gold or above.  You will not regret it.

Very good advice.  I went from a 550w Bronze psu to an 850w Gold psu on the same miner and watts measured at the wall decreased 5%.  Not only do they provide power better, they do so more efficiently.

[cadaf]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

[aarons6]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.

if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.

[ToQcHista]

his X keeps moving.. its been in 3 diff spots.

225 seems too fast for this s3.. possibly 218 would be better, more reliable.


edit, the power supply he linked is not the ideal psu to use for this kind of power needs.

plus it looks like there are only 2 PCI-E cables.. with 2 ends each, one 6 and one 6+2..
there for its like he only has 2 plugged in, instead of all 4.. since they are using the same wires.

i have plugged 4 pCI in s3 .

 

may be faulty Electricity fault? if i that have bad PSU ?

[cadaf]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.

if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.

is that the second to last option? do you recall? im trying that now i also notcied when i hit update lists on top of that 90 percent bar... just to see what happened. I get this. http://postimg.org/image/r44w2smyn/acc76e31/


trying second to last firm update now

[cadaf]

ehhhhhh same story... second to last firmware gives u that error headline on the software screen... third from bottom doesent however same error message on package list and now in my miner status where on the latest firmware some random 0's pop up theres now nothing

http://postimg.org/image/lxd23osl1/43a6e082/

[ToQcHista]

what it doing this firmware ?

[cadaf]

what it doing this firmware ?

heres the alternitive same scripting with the latest firmware...is this maybe a psu problem like everyone else is encountering? fml lol im so sorry but im sure this is somthing very basic im just to new/inept at this to understand. I cant tell you how much I appreciate the help.

http://postimg.org/image/mr81etx8t/ab14913d/

[soy]

My first guess would be the ribbon cables but if that there would be pools.

So, what you are showing is immediately after flashing while the antminer pool is still the default?

Can you show a shot of your Overview?  ...and of your pools page without the passwords?

[luthermarcus]

what it doing this firmware ?

heres the alternitive same scripting with the latest firmware...is this maybe a psu problem like everyone else is encountering? fml lol im so sorry but im sure this is somthing very basic im just to new/inept at this to understand. I cant tell you how much I appreciate the help.

http://postimg.org/image/mr81etx8t/ab14913d/

Like the guy above said what kind of psu are you using? are you refreshing that page it doesn't refresh itself? Do you have your pools setup or is that page blank? are the lights on your hashboard lighting up? Do the fans spin when you miner is on?

[notlist3d]

what it doing this firmware ?

heres the alternitive same scripting with the latest firmware...is this maybe a psu problem like everyone else is encountering? fml lol im so sorry but im sure this is somthing very basic im just to new/inept at this to understand. I cant tell you how much I appreciate the help.

http://postimg.org/image/mr81etx8t/ab14913d/

Like the guy above said what kind of psu are you using? are you refreshing that page it doesn't refresh itself? Do you have your pools setup or is that page blank? are the lights on your hashboard lighting up? Do the fans spin when you miner is on?

I can't remember brand he posted but it's a cheap PSU.  So it is possibly the cause. Then again he showed pictures after shipping it was handled so bad a fin broke off in shipping and was moving around..... so it's hard to tell what all this miner has been through

He really should take Bitmain up on their offer of support.   He keeps spamming questions instead using support.

[no141]

what it doing this firmware ?

heres the alternitive same scripting with the latest firmware...is this maybe a psu problem like everyone else is encountering? fml lol im so sorry but im sure this is somthing very basic im just to new/inept at this to understand. I cant tell you how much I appreciate the help.

http://postimg.org/image/mr81etx8t/ab14913d/

Like the guy above said what kind of psu are you using? are you refreshing that page it doesn't refresh itself? Do you have your pools setup or is that page blank? are the lights on your hashboard lighting up? Do the fans spin when you miner is on?

I can't remember brand he posted but it's a cheap PSU.  So it is possibly the cause. Then again he showed pictures after shipping it was handled so bad a fin broke off in shipping and was moving around..... so it's hard to tell what all this miner has been through

He really should take Bitmain up on their offer of support.   He keeps spamming questions instead using support.

It is a CoolerMaster, he showed a pic about 70 posts back, about 35 being his own posts, LOL. Here: Post 9488. No idea who actually makes those.

They don't want to post in the thread that's in his language, don't think they know Russian for that section, they seemingly only want to deal in this thread, and not take up bitmain's offer of help    I'm figuring they are going to end up on people's ignore list.

[aarons6]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.

if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.

is that the second to last option? do you recall? im trying that now i also notcied when i hit update lists on top of that 90 percent bar... just to see what happened. I get this. http://postimg.org/image/r44w2smyn/acc76e31/


trying second to last firm update now

it seems bitmain took off the 12/19 firmware.

i think the 10/13 one had the lau bug where you couldnt hit accept.

anything prior to that had a bug where the reset button didnt work..
i can post the 12/19 firmware.. but i think dogie has it in a dropbox somewhere, maybe he can send the link.

here is the 12/19 firmware, with the updated cgminer and the text to install it
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1a4hmtrplqmw6h0/AntMiner_Firmware.rar

i claim no responsibility if you mess up your s3 flashing this.. but this is the firmware i use on my s3s.. it came from bitmain as a beta firmware.
it seems to be the most stable for me with the fewest HWE.

make sure to uncheck the box to keep settings. doing so should reset the ip on the miner to 192.168.1.99

[cadaf]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.

if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.

is that the second to last option? do you recall? im trying that now i also notcied when i hit update lists on top of that 90 percent bar... just to see what happened. I get this. http://postimg.org/image/r44w2smyn/acc76e31/


trying second to last firm update now

it seems bitmain took off the 12/19 firmware.

i think the 10/13 one had the lau bug where you couldnt hit accept.

anything prior to that had a bug where the reset button didnt work..
i can post the 12/19 firmware.. but i think dogie has it in a dropbox somewhere, maybe he can send the link.

I would really appreciate that.. or If potentially you could jsut tell me which one to grab theres six listed ive tried the last, second to last, and thirdto last ones listed...

[aarons6]

so im still having problems getting my one antminer s3+ and two s3's up and hashing after factory default resets. Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves. Anyone have a guide or a quick bit of some help to offer in that regard?? I have all three antminers on my network and connected to the mining pool the the miner status screen still looks as if it has the default worker login info in the boxes......

What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"?  On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner.  You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.  

What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply?  Does it save it in configuration page?

And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.

Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633

There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdf

Okay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen..... http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/

 Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?

i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.

if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.

is that the second to last option? do you recall? im trying that now i also notcied when i hit update lists on top of that 90 percent bar... just to see what happened. I get this. http://postimg.org/image/r44w2smyn/acc76e31/


trying second to last firm update now

it seems bitmain took off the 12/19 firmware.

i think the 10/13 one had the lau bug where you couldnt hit accept.

anything prior to that had a bug where the reset button didnt work..
i can post the 12/19 firmware.. but i think dogie has it in a dropbox somewhere, maybe he can send the link.

I would really appreciate that.. or If potentially you could jsut tell me which one to grab theres six listed ive tried the last, second to last, and thirdto last ones listed...

i edited my post with the link, this firmware isnt on their site anymore.

[cadaf]

ok, im gonna try and start a a new quote string here, for our scrolling sake.

Im gonna try the original firmware this morning and the only ones on there site I havent tried yet..... What in the world would I look at if None of these want to work?

heres my config page w no password... although i was under the impression it dident really matter if that got out.... im  using http://stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

http://postimg.org/image/lnwx875mf/



thank you

[soy]

ok, im gonna try and start a a new quote string here, for our scrolling sake.

Im gonna try the original firmware this morning and the only ones on there site I havent tried yet..... What in the world would I look at if None of these want to work?

heres my config page w no password... although i was under the impression it dident really matter if that got out.... im  using http://stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

http://postimg.org/image/lnwx875mf/



thank you

If you look at the first line, it has http://stratum+tcp://xxxxx  it's wrong.  You use either http:// or stratum+tcp:// not both.

[cadaf]

ok, im gonna try and start a a new quote string here, for our scrolling sake.

Im gonna try the original firmware this morning and the only ones on there site I havent tried yet..... What in the world would I look at if None of these want to work?

heres my config page w no password... although i was under the impression it dident really matter if that got out.... im  using http://stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

http://postimg.org/image/lnwx875mf/



thank you

If you look at the first line, it has http://stratum+tcp://xxxxx  it's wrong.  You use either http:// or stratum+tcp:// not both.

fml i gotta go to work but i think i potentially owe you my life..........  let yall kno tonight even though you couldent care less im sure.....



THANK YOUUUUU

[Mikestang]

ok, im gonna try and start a a new quote string here, for our scrolling sake.

Im gonna try the original firmware this morning and the only ones on there site I havent tried yet..... What in the world would I look at if None of these want to work?

heres my config page w no password... although i was under the impression it dident really matter if that got out.... im  using http://stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

http://postimg.org/image/lnwx875mf/



thank you

If you look at the first line, it has http://stratum+tcp://xxxxx  it's wrong.  You use either http:// or stratum+tcp:// not both.

Likewise, pool 2 is missing either http:// or stratum+tcp://.