Need some assistance/advice with my brand new Antminer D3.
I'm not trying to waste anyone's time so I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible so people can diagnose the problems I have.
Alright, the first day I get the miner. Runs for about 3-4 hours. Has red "fault light flash"--> check and see every chip has a red "x" restart and the entire board 3 just no longer showed up on the page.
I went and upgraded firmware and now all three are back up but the third only shows "54" chips while the rest show 60. I am unsure why this is.
It's been going well on Antpool now for about 24 hours but I've noticed it's got millions... MILLIONS of hardware errors. I am unsure how to fix this or what it means.
Here's my situation: Miner is a room with ac + window open. (80F- 60F at night). The power supply is the APW3++ from Bitmain. I'm in USA so I believe it's 120 volts if that matters.
Everything else seems to be set to default. You can see my recent miner status here: It seems to have improved hash rate for the time being?
https://imgur.com/oqT12HfPlus on a side note, it randomly hits 0.00 hash or something on antpool charts:
https://imgur.com/a/d54aGAnyways, should I try to use my warranty to get it fixed? What are the benefits of using this "firmware" and how is it possible that it would be quieter faster hashing, and less power? Can't Bitmain just update theirs? I'm very new to this and would love to learn so all advice is greatly appreciated.
When have installed on 120V you get only 1000-1100W out of a Bitmain PSU.
The HW Errors is a fault from Bitmain, they put the frequency so high only to label the miner with 19.3GH, try in the settings to reduce the frequency to 506. this was my magic number on the last 2 D3 i get from Bitmain.
Blissz, change the Firmware you can setup for all 3 hashboards independent the Power and frequency, how you see in your pic the last hashboard is hotter, lot HW-Errors.
With this Firmware you can tweak your D3 to get the best out of all 3 Hashboards
Thank you for that understanding, but my question is what exactly does it mean to get "hardware errors" it just means it's too hot? Hasn't even hit over 70C yet on a board? Plus, If I reduce the "frequency" what exactly does that do to my hash speed? Would it result in a reduced speed or no? what're the benefits?
Hardware Error is a calculation problem in a ASIC chip, it´s no problem to have a few of them, but when there are to much like in your pics, then it´s mosttime a power problem.
There are 2 ways to fix this problem
when you use the Orig. Firmware from Bitmain, you must lower the frequency, the hashrate go a little down and your Hashboards not use so much power.
How i say before, bitmain not care on these even with 240V in Germany i get to much HW-Error on 1 Board in all my Miner with Facory Setting of 537.
use the Firmware from Blissz, here you can lower the frequency only for the Hashboard that have to many HW-Errors
or when your board not get to hot you can set the Voltage higher.
Depend the Powercost and for the health of the miner i will preffer to lower the frequency a little bit.
And with your 120V Powerline, you must lower Power consume from your miner to get it stable.