Has anyone updated their S4's with the new firmware from Bitmain Tech initramfs.bin.SD-20150129.tar.gz? Having problems with the new firmware update. When I change the frequency settings from stock, the miner will revert back to an old pool that I used to mine at. When I change the pool settings back to CKPool, it will revert the frequency settings back to stock settings. I have uploaded the backup copy of the miner before applying the new firmware, but without Joy, as in it's still doing the same thing.
Sounds like cache issues.
I was experiencing similar things with an S3 yesterday, opened a different browser I had not used with a miner, bc I never use IE for anything, but it did refresh properly.
Your original question about the S4 firmware. I haven't gotten to it. My spare SD died, so I have to pickup another this weekend and not updating without one heh. I wonder... may have an extra in the digicam
If I do, I will update you.
Why bother with an extra SD card? You can always re-write the original image if the upgrade goes bad.
On my end, I upgraded my 5 S4s and they work perfectly on CK's solo pool. I'd expect the same behavior here. No idea why your S4 is acting up with the overclock, mine have no issues. Perhaps a factory reset is in order?
Another SD card because I only have the one in the unit at the moment I can put my hands on. I haven't had issues with my SD card, but I have read several posts about them failing when people ship the unit or some just reset the SD card in the slot.So I want a spare when I flash.
I am still running 10-16 FW and sticking to stock for the remainder of my warranty because of the 2 PSU failures. I do not want to RMA another one. This last time pushed me to the point of never doing business with BITMAIN again because of one person. and I am smarter than that, but I do digress, (sometimes too much).
I do have big plans for the S4s though. I want to find a platinum rated server power supply which I can setup load balancing / current sensing, adjustments on the fly, hot-swappable, all of that stuff which is good to play with and learn from. (I buy a spare PSU when I buy server PSUs heh) Minimum 2000 watts per PSU, I do like what all of these guys are doing, Jabberwock, Gekkoscience, and the other one I have not remembered the name at this moment arrgghh.
I purchased from
http://www.gekkoscience.com/ I plan to purchase several more "packages" if possible. This cat pulled his own working power supplies for me with nice fans and sent them to me so I had them Saturday. I planned on using them for a decent size batch of S3s and keeping usage at 65% using two with a spare. (Always get a spare when you get server PSUs)
The day he shipped my S4 PSUs died that had died previously. Yes, everyone who has read my posts are getting sick of hearing me but I am / was extremely dissatisfied with the way I was treated.)
Anyway, I am not saying I used another part on one of the S4s, I am saying "I had the option" thanks to sidehack. And the option to use one much better than the one which came with it that would probably let it overclock very damn nice. But while under warranty, I run stock. After you can believe I will have fun for about two days overclocking but then spend 2 weeks underclocking.
**Side-note, my ADD kicking in, you should see my room at the moment, I was given an old Dell workstation precision 690 with dual xeons and 8 1GB sticks of ram with an nvidia quadro fx video card. Now I know any of you modern speed demons are laughing at me right now, but this baby is a piece of art, or I hope it will be
Everything stock at the moment, and once I fulfill my obligation I can do anything I want with it.
To *earn* this I am doing a side project on virus and malware activity, where we are today, and where will be in 1, 5, and 10 years. If you have an opinion, particularly on "how it will affect crypto user's daily lives". From there take any route, be it a trader, miner, CEO of a hardware company, CEO of a scam company jk, bad joke, and shoot me your thoughts, or any tips.
This is going to be my "server" and I need some advice if anyone wants to comment, and apologies Kano and CK for being off topic. I will delete and move if you want.
I want to use it to run basic VM sessions of some type where I keep staking wallets separated. I also want to use it as my main learning tool for learning linux and serving internal web pages with api information I gather externally. It must be secure. Do I setup multiple boot OS? I want to use the api from kano.is and solo.ckpool.org to make a web page which also includes the actual information from each miner and do all sorts of fun stuff I dream up.
(which probably costs me way more money in reboot times than I would ever make from most changes haha) I want to learn to run my own bitcoind node. If my internet speed isn't fast enough at the moment it doesn't cost that much here anymore to go up to a new package. I have 50 download and 5 up at the moment, but like I said... the bitcoind I would like to keep it running forever whether or not I mine using it is something I also need to research more.
I've read the threads about "Do I install the server version or the client?" They all have the same answer, install the client if you want the gui. Well I am familiar with windows server. Which should I run with the efforts I mentioned above? One of the Ubuntu variants or something different, and server or client? I promise not to bug you guys everyday, I will UTFSE, and only ask questions about pool related issues, after this one
**doublesidenote, DoubleADD kicking in because of the Hot Venti with extra shot caramel mocha I had 5 hours ago still kicking my ass. If you want a partner in something you are working on, or I can test something with an S4, SP20, S3, S3+, and don't get me started on the Zeus Thunder 128 I can't run because of the cost, but yeah, I work well with others who enjoy working and trying to figure out a better way while having fun and no stress unless one of us gets ripped off, then it is game on
