ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Duce]

I was just on the Bitmain site. They have removed all of the S3 firmware.

Just the bad one is removed.

Not correct, look at the site right now and you will not find S3 Firmware. Maybe it will be back later.

[IYFTech]

This is not a thread I monitor, I only hop in and out.

Why isn't it?

What's the point in having a support thread if it isn't being monitored by anyone paid by bitmain to provide support?

Maybe if you spent a bit more time "monitoring" the support threads instead of posting cr*p in almost every other mining/hardware thread or insulting people with negative feedback for pointing out your mistakes/bullshitery, this whole mess could have been cleared up weeks ago when it first became apparent. By not monitoring this or other bitmain threads, many more bitmain customers have ended up with unusable miners - and the best you can come up with is "I don't monitor this thread?"!!

You are a f*cking joke dogie - as is bitmain support in general. Absolutely useless.

[IITravel01]

I was just on the Bitmain site. They have removed all of the S3 firmware.

Just the bad one is removed.

Not correct, look at the site right now and you will not find S3 Firmware. Maybe it will be back later.

There's not even a firmware link for the S3 for me, so I would support the "removed all of the S3 firmware".

[handytxg]

S1 > S3 > S4
I have purchase 100++ S1 = 1 RMA ( Dead Controller )
I have purchase 30++ S3 = 3 RMA ( 2 Still on progress )
I have purchase 4++ S4 = 1 RMA  ( Dead PSU )

S1 RMA 1 Day to get the shipping label ( Excellent )
S3 RMA 1 Week to get the shipping label ( Bad )
S4 RMA 3-4 Days to get replacment PSU shipped ( Not bad )

Come on Bitmain please improve your product quality and support.

[DevonMiner]

Yep, no firmware at all available for the S3 currently on the Bitmain website ... wish they'd done that yesterday before I downloaded and bricked a miner 

Let's hope they are seriously getting down to re-writing a compliant release.

[Chris_Sabian]

My new S3+ with the November 26 firmware is having issues.  It will hash at ~460 gh/s for about an hour then drop to ~20 gh/s.  PSU, internet, and cooling are all good. ASICs show all '0'.  Multiple pools have the same hash drop off.

I have another S3+ with the Oct 24  firmware that runs amazing with no issues for days on end.  I'm running identical PSU, internet, cooling on both S3+.

Is the Nov 26 the firmware that is full of bugs?  If so, can I 'restore' the firmware to the Oct 24 version to try and fix the problem?  Is it a difficult task?  I hate to see my new S3 having issues like this.  The S3 has been rock solid for me. 

[dog1965]

PEOPLE FOR NOW JUST STICK WITH THE OCTOBER 13 FIRMWARE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST STABLE ONE JUST APPLY THE FIX. all the other versions are quick and sloppy code from what I can tell this is why BITMAIN took all of them off there site!!!! AN NO I DONT WORK FOR BITMAIN I AM A RETIRED DISABLED SOFTWARE ENGINEER "CODER". I HAD A HUGE RACK OF SERVERS COLLAPSE WICH FELL ON ME Because of those hardware engineers did not now how to put together racks. I wish I was not standing in the room I would still be working I enjoy it very much.



 

[InquiringMinds]

They just posted new firmware  https://www.bitmaintech.com/files/download/antMiner_S320141216.bin

Modify bug of negative temperature, And add get block num in MinerStatus web. MD5:9F2DDE2C0C157E74E3EBC683BE262CD8.

[Moria843]

Who's going to try first?

[Duce]

Who's going to try first?

Maybe BITMAIN can try it on a unit and provide screen shots of the results? Or if Dogie has a unit that was provided maybe he could update that one and provided an update to the S3 review.

[ATCkit]

i'm so glad i sold my last S3's last week. this thread is beginning to read like yet another car crash.

Train wreck more like....

It's almost as if bitmain deliberately gave their entire customer base a firmware that f*cks their miners up in the hope that they'll just buy some more as replacements....the fact that they still haven't removed it from their website yet, or don't even comment about it is just astounding.....

Way to go bitmain. How the mighty have fallen.........

To add insult to injury, Bitmain tells me my warranty expired eventho I did not receive it until Sept 18th. What's up with that?

 It's kinda like they start  the warranty clock on the day they ship it (- ie: Sept 11th in my case). That's just not right.

I heard back from Bitmain Warranty. They're wanting me to pay 0.18985 btc for one S3 control board. That's not the end of the world but it's the principle of the issue...so i am insisting they send it for free as the warranty (going by normal business practices and legally) does not expire until Dec 18th.

I think you've got away with it (now that the BTC rate is a bit depressed). If I were you (and that price included shipping), I'd just pay up and chase them for vouchers. That will save you on downtime and headaches, IMO.

Good news. The price Bitmain quote dme for the controller includes UPS. They shipped within 24 hrs of me paying. I will have my new controller by Dec 222nd.

[ATCkit]

Who's going to try first?

That's my birthday. I will be brave and try it

[iglasses]

Who's going to try first?

That's my birthday. I will be brave and try it

[dog1965]

I am trying it on both my s3's what I don't see is the"add get block num in MinerStatus " thingy anybody else see it ?

another piece of crap from BITMAIN well I will know if is at least stable in 1 to 4 hours!!!

I hope it don't drop to 50 GH/s again!!


I cant believe the put the crappy buggy messy old firmware back up. This newest one is based on that and I think its crappy as well we will see.

they should change the kernel rom it is old to!!!!!


I don't want to get the S5 when it comes out its will be another blunder by bitmain!!!

[mowpow]

Just received two S+ batch 11's that had the 11/26 firmware on them.  Problems I had were:

1)  Each unit would not exceed 250GH/S.
2)  After a random amount of time rate would drop to between 20-50GH/S and stay there no matter what pool/balance I put them on.
3)  Random boards/chips going to 'x'.

I flashed back to 10/24 and now I'm getting 450GH/S consistently without any 'x'.  Definitely seems the 10/24 firmware is solid from a performance/stability perspective.

Mowpow

[IYFTech]

Just the bad one is removed.

Wrong again dogie....

All the firmware releases are clearly there if you look at the web page correctly.

Who's going to try first?

Absolutely not me! 

This latest firmware came up a bit too quick, so I'm pretty sure they haven't tested it at all. Again.

[dogie]

Just the bad one is removed.

All the firmware releases are clearly there if you look at the web page correctly.

Posts 26 hours later, doesn't understand the concept of time and a dynamic universe.

[dogie]

I think they're paying him to post on everybody else's threads except bitmains........

This is not a thread I monitor, I only hop in and out.

Aren't you supposed to be here to provide support?

Not for all products, no. Its other staff's job to monitor this thread (even if they don't post).

[IYFTech]

Just the bad one is removed.

All the firmware releases are clearly there if you look at the web page correctly.

Posts 26 hours later, doesn't understand the concept of time and a dynamic universe.

It really makes no difference what time I post. The simple fact is, you said the firmware had been removed. It clearly has not.

[pekatete]

Just the bad one is removed.

All the firmware releases are clearly there if you look at the web page correctly.

Posts 26 hours later, doesn't understand the concept of time and a dynamic universe.

It really makes no difference what time I post. The simple fact is, you said the firmware had been removed. It clearly has not.

Well, the firmware was actually removed from the site at some stage, just that it has now been re-uploaded (I guess when the latter Nov 2014 release was ready).

It is just mind-boggling for bitmain to re-upload the clearly broken / buggy / useless fimware back into public domain. I just can not fathom any usefulness / value this has or can have for the user. For bitmain, of-course, this can spike sales for replacement boards when users have bricked their original ones.