Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 123. (Read 355730 times)

I had the same and found that the card that wasn't registering was missing one of the tiny resistors ("0") closest to the pci connection on the board. I replaced the resistor with some pencil and some silver conductive paint and it's working fine for a week now.

Download MWSnap...

AFAIK all images must be hosted off-site on something like imgur or imageshack. Then you imbed the image in your post using the img and /img bbcodes (put square brackets around them).

anybody know about demon pool just got a random invite

if your using windows (or a mac) a great little program is Duck Link Screen Capture http://www.ducklink.com/

it just sits next to your clock on the windows task bar and when you roll over it gives you the screen capture options, it can do rolling screen shots, selected area etc. etc. and once captured you have the easy link to save the file of copy to the clipboard

I use it all the time much more versatile than Print Screen

really? My S2 batch 2 S2 may as well have come flat packed with all the cards fallen over with bent pci slots as it was. I have since fixed all this, plus replaced all the fans (one fan was broken and couldn't get a matching one), all fans are now running a nice constant speed and are powered by a bitspower x-station fan control unit running off the factory power supply, i would have replaced the factory supply with something a bit bigger but one of the pins on my mainboard was badly damaged and the only pci-e 6 pin cable i can get to fit is the enermax one that came out of it. So i'm stuck with the underpowered power supply, which for the first few days kept turning itself off, the orientation of the psu is all wrong, the intake just sucks in warm air from the asic boards causing the psu to overheat, so have rotated the psu and cut a nice hold in the side of the case and added a fan grill and dust filter and it has not had power problems since. I had a problem with the sdcard corrupting itself and had to steal the sdcard out of my partners phone to fix it at 2am still haven't replaced her music (sorry bub) now i keep a copy of the sdcard should it have problems again. thinking of making a hatch in the top of the unit so i can pop the sdcard out if i ever need to power down the unit as this would avoid corruption it seems and also wouldn't have to take the case off, maybe a hinged steel lid. The device reports an average hash rate of 1008GH/s but the pool speed actually reports between 800-900 overall not really impressed. I could have had a coincraft unit for less and had less problems. My next unit is a Spondoolies SP30 Sorry Bitmain i had such high hopes for the S2, but 10+ days late and broken has left me less than impressed

With Win7/8 (maybe XP?), use the snipping tool that is built in.  Just search for snip and it should be the first thing. It's REALLY easy and you can select exactly what you want to screenshot. 

On a Mac,  Command + Shift + 4 to select a specific region-saves to desktop.

BFL Josh - Inaba reminded me that "we" do not say enough nice things about our experiences in the forums.

I LOVE my antMiner Products.

I own 12 S1's and an S2 -- ALL run to spec and S2 had minor issues upon arrival due to HOW FAST they ship. 3 DAYS! from China to Mid-west, USA unreal, what a world. BitmainTech does get busy, but their delivery rate and ON TIME performance suggests they are busy working to satisfy ME..  or yews..

BitmainTech is 100% miner friendly,

IMHO..

Where are you that Anchorage is too far?  Packages from Bitmain arrive in Anchorage, get shipped to California or Kentucky for customs clearance, get shipped back to Anchorage, put on another plane down to a town near me and are delivered by the end of the day.  If you're in the US and they're in Anchorage you'll get them tomorrow.

ctrl+print screen = copies your whole screen to the clipboard

crtl+alt+print screen = copies only the active window to the clipboard

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

My Batch 3 is on it's way.

Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 04/29/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Anchorage, AK, United States, Monday, 04/28/2014

Anchorage is too far so it might not deliver tomorrow. Hope it gets here in 1 to 10 pieces and not like other people's miners. I'll report back if they have learnt something from high number of UPS claims.

Both had rubber strips under the lid, the idea is good but it did not hold.

Ditto. Maybe I got lucky... my batch 2 S2 arrived in perfect condition.

AGREED 

mine arrived fine, and had rubber strips in the lid designed to keep the cards tight in the slots. The damaged units must be going through some rough handling - maybe a 'this side up' is necessary?

Got my two s2's today. Both where fucked up inside, Cards everywhere, bent pci slots. Plastic thingy holding the cards had about 50% survival rate.
After assembling them back together one did not start and one worked at 650Ghs. After some hours of trying different things I got two new PSU's, XFX Black Edition 1250W and RECOM 1600W(Overkill but had it laying around) One are stable at 1Ths the other is working at 920ghs with row 10 showing only lines.

I feel the s2 is a step down from s1 when it comes to build quality and overall design.
Next time pack each cards individually with bubblewrap and stick them inside the miner. Shipping the miner with the cards already in their slot is borderline retarded. 

You are probably right for a large operation, but for a home use few s1 are manageable. If S2 was $1800-2000, I would probably buy it instead.

the price/GH is definitely a bit off in the S2. (keep in mind though that it uses 10x the chips as an S1, which is *almost* logical if the chips are the biggest cost). IMO it should be 5BTC right now at most, if not 4.5BTC.

my unit is a batch 2 and i had no issues in shipment or in usage. (~980-990GH stock was a smidge low of the 1TH). the rails that hold the modules are fine on mine and do the job well enough that i really wonder what went wrong with the damaged units some people received. they are small plastic slides on a metal brace, all of which seems firmly put together in my box. The PSU was new 1000W enermax GOLD, or looked like new. I have not had issues with the SD card on reboots or power cycles, but my bitfury unit used to so i am not surprised that the some of the S2 sd cards have corrupted when using cheap cards.

The S2 is rack-mountable. the hashing boards are removable (if swapping them is ever needed). I would say that is important compared to the havoc of dealing with over a dozen S1 units and their seperate power supplies and difficulty stacking. 1!1!1!1 would testify to this - all you need to do is see the difference in his racks for S1 units and S2 units. one rack is clean and gorgeous, the other is a hodgepodge of zipties, server PSUs, and power/ethernet cables.

Too big? The S2 is a lot smaller than 5-6 S1's and takes up a lot less space (power supply is integrated) and uses more or less half the power and I'm sure it's a lot quieter too... you can't just compare $/GH/s, what about W/GH/s?

I'm not completely satisfied with my b2 unit, but it'll do (I didn't get into mining to get rich, thankfully), I hope they fix the packaging issues for b3, I totally agree with you there.