Topic: A4 Dominator - Pre-Order Group Buy - 280mh, roughly 1000w, $1800 + shipping - page 33. (Read 122571 times)

guess the easy question is anyone know where to find that original batch 1 boot file to mount?

thanks for the help so far peeps

Don't be too down beaten chuck. Even with the dropped blades the money might be half as expected but it should still reach the ROI in a year instead of 6 months. 1 year is still amazing for any ROI and it's all free money after that.
Also the problems with pools might be their side if they're the autoswitching one's as I've been discussing with clevermining. Keep the faith!

Each batch so far has its own firmware.  So if you have a batch 1 miner you need the v0.0.3 firmware.  If you have a batch 2 the latest is v1.0.3.  Apparently the firmware and miners are not compatible and I understand batch 3 is yet again not compatible with the batch 1 or 2.  So it is a REAL MESS!

I have to admit with all the crashing, restarting, and dropped cards even my patience is starting to wear pretty thin here.  This is starting to reach the point of no return for me.  Either Inno gets on this and gets our existing miners fixed, or if they think they have fixed the issue with Batch 3 and they want to swap out these early miners so they can save face in the mining community.  Either way they need to step up to the plate now and drive a resolution for their customers and this needs to be communicated soon to their customers.  This is ridiculous.

The current state of the A4's is not acceptable.  My batch 2 v1.0.3 miners are constantly restarting, and dropping cards on various pools now.  Only place it is half way stable is Litecoinpool.  I am on Nicehash right now and will probably go back to Litecoinpool in the hopes of earning something from these miners.  No way at this rate that these will make ROI running like this.  I am just waiting for the next shoe to drop and start seeing board failures.  Nothing would surprise me at this point.

Inno has really let us down with the A4.  

It likely is 'batch 2' firmware as I updated it from a file found recently here...

does each batch need an individual update version do you think? very confusing

I may have missed your previous post(s) Are you using batch 2 firmware on a batch 1 miner? -- That would be my first guess. What version did you have before you updated?

I agree with this. For far too long there has been shady makers of the hardware. They do not deliver what they promise and then have a very lackluster communication in resolving issues. Sad,, Very sad.

I wish some of the BTC Asic companies would make some script miners too. I can see why they would not want to do that, but one could hope.

I think I'm done following this thread. Even if things were to be resolved, I am a bit scared as to how long it has taken, even though there are plenty of customers, if not all, who are discouraged at the communication of this company.

What?!? Even if stable im not buying these, so first people in are screwd with shotty firmware, i actually hoped there was an honest manufacturer in this field.....i wonder when this miner manufacturer madness will stop and get some decent companies on board to make some home miners again 

If you can get cgminer up turn on every logging option possible and post the results.

Hm. What do you see when you ssh into the Pi and run screen -r? What kind of errors is the cgminer saying, and is there a specific build they're using for the specific device? In fact what the hell devices are they using to talk to this thing over the SPI bus?

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Still 0 mh/s using the 1.0.3 software updated

anyone have any ideas, I can see the interface, everything's correct, just no work being produced. Other miners are working as usual (albeit the drop problems).

http://imgur.com/a/YeJmQ

1100mhz @ 815mv -- Dropped Card

Now trying 1000mhz @ 810mv

I just dropped mine back to 1100mhz and 815mv in an effort to see if underclocking them will help.

Going to go all the way back to 800mhz if necessary to see where it stops. I know I can run them with 800mv at <1000mhz because mine came setup with 800mhz as default

For those using Nicehash can you tell me if you are using any options or settings?  Are you manually setting difficulty or anything to help stablize the miners?  So far my miners are not stable on Nicehash either.  Lots of restarts, and lots of dropped boards. 

Heck sorry for you guys. But seems to be following the KNC guidebook on how to screw consumers. The catch is KNC originally had a 90 day warranty
(but they forgot to change web page for previous btc units so they had to make it a year after a month of this kinda stuff). When it was 90 days (or so they thought) there was NOT a
lot of firmware action ...with this 45 day warranty ...you guys may be frigging out of luck....

Also whatever happened to the +10%/-10% hash rate they claimed (at one time anyway) on the speed of their units 250mh is below that..also the 'open source' which at LEAST
would have allowed someone a shot to fix this...

But I mean really IF 3rd batch has a WORKING version of 2.01 that is NOT compatible with previous versions ...for the BIG difference in price of a 35 buck discount over
group buy prices (Thanksgiving sale)..I would be ..well beyond pissed off....

Looks like a different train going down the same track ...with the bridge gone.....what a cluster.....

Are you guys sure that Innsilicon did not just hire a bunch of KNC former folk after the bankruptcy? I mean the crap is almost identical!

By the way I've heard rumors that Innsilicon has more then a few shady ties in China....also a guy in the states that made prototype chps claims he sent them
to China to fab and the A2 chips were identical ..ie he got ripped off..kinda think this MAY be true from the cases and other server psu's he has dumped since his
bankruptcy because of such....but again hear say....but then again....got a lot of server psu's (new) out of this story to mod my titans....but again this is 3rd hand

Someone who is in China and speaks the language could probably give us more ..if such dirt is true

Anyway a moot point.....their actions seem to speak for themselves....(Damn glad I just acted as a free escrow on this...damn near bought one..)

Good luck

Yes I can confirm this.. Ver 2.0.1 will not be compatible. This is what I was told from a reliable source
Anyone want to buy my set up? I am done with this. Send me PM if interested..

thanks anyways, gave it another re-write using Rufus, thing i used it last time though middle of the night >.<

v.2.0.1 is probably for the batch 3 miners.  Just a guess.

I have the latest batch one V0.0.3 and batch two V1.0.3
They are both hashing. To create the image I used a program for Macs called Apple-Pi-Baker
On windows sorry I do not know what to use..

today i see a screenshot from a chinese vendor with v2.01
i cant find any post from inno to download such a version for customers

anyone who has latest firmware running and producing some hash

please let me know the software you used to mount it, think its causing mine to bug out.