Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 73. (Read 355820 times)

My S2 received yesterday has a metal plate completely covering and holding in the boards. Arrived in perfect condition.

Anyone else notice that the power supplies are used? The Enermax labels are peeiing as if from age and heat. Still they work fine.

My bad with the earlier bitmaintech refusal.  My purchase with your coupon worked!!!  Thanks my friend!

Hopefully they'll only use the PCI slot for power ... and a cable for data connection to the controller ...

pm your id i will give you 1.

Dammit!  I thought I had one S2 coupon left to burn on a purchase tonight.  Does anyone have a valid S2 coupon left and willing to donate???  PM me if interested in helping me out!  Thx!

I NEED SOEM S1 COUPONS. I HAVE 2 X S2 COUPONS TO TRADE. HIT ME UP

That may be but the original statement by BITMAIN referred to a 'low cost option'. Replacing all the cards in the S2 with S3 cards is unlikely to be 'low cost'.

Those will be the upgrade cards for S2 case. Well designed box to house 10 hashing blades and suitable to run quietly for 1000W power usage.
Projected time for upgrade cards to arrive would be September.

I haven't see this posted here:
http://www.coindesk.com/private-china-meeting-bitcoin-mining-industry-leaders/

I had this problem and it was both the pci slot and a board. The pci slot had bent pins in it and there was a resistor missing from the one board:

The same rail on mine was bent in the same way that you show.  No other damage that I could see and mine too is hashing away quite happily.  Also missing the two side screws.

Hi, can you tell what was the cause and did you remedy it?
I have almost exactly the same case, but slot#1 is not functioning (showing -------). See my prior post a page or two ago.

For anyone who's flown in the back of a plane, or sat in the back of the school bus knows - bumpy rides are VERY bumpy in the back.  The front - not so much.  I keep reading about how UPS must be treating their packages poorly, resulting in damage while in transit.  I'm sure there are some cases of this, but the real problem, which is 100% out of UPS's control, is turbulence during flight.

Do you really think the captain of a UPS flight from china to anchorage flies around turbulence, in a effort to find some nice smooth air for all the boxes in the back of the plane?  I imagine he just plows through it.  It's not that bumpy up front.  

Bitmaintech should either find a way to secure the cards SECURELY, without putting any stress on the PCI slots (pc case manufactures figured this out decades ago - they screw the boards to the case, not the motherboard), OR, ship miners with boards not installed.  

You should be able to put an S2 in a paint shaker at your local hardware store and not cause any damage.  You can with any other pc or server (ok, only if you remove the hard drive first...).

^^^ I reckon that can happen if the box was transported with the psu fan side facing down. A couple of small drops onto the flat side of the box is probably what bent those rails down, judging from the damage only being on one side... that would also result in no damage to the outside.

Wanted to share my experience so far.

Ordered and received an S2 on 4/29, received it very quickly, boards were loose but nothing damaged OR bent on the inside.  

Ordered another one on 5/20 and was set up to receive it on the 27th.  I didn't. I called UPS, they said it was in customs in CA but they didn't know why.  I received another call later that day, the 28th, from UPS saying that they needed to investigate the package and would reply via email once it clears customs.  I received no email or other communication from them.  

I got it less than 24 hours later and here's what arrived:

There are no scratches or dents anywhere on the case.

Inside:




Radial caps disconnected (presumably from being smacked by loose boards):


SMD caps detached from the board:


So I soldered the caps back to the backplace and fixed the bent braces.  Even the board with the missing capacitors seems to be okay.  Are there any negative long term effects that could happen by using that board?

After surgery it is happy and hashing:


I have to stress, the case was flawless, not a dent or scratch on it.  I was missing the 2 side screws, which I thought was slightly odd.  I just can't fathom how the braces on the side get bent like that during shipping without some damage to the outside.  The cable that connects the controller board to the lcd screen was also disconnected from the lcd screen, not the controller board.  One of the pci connectors on the psu side of the backplane was also disconnected.

How on Earth does damage like that (the braces) occur without any exterior damage?    

Please understand, this post wasn't mean to disparage BITMAIN, nor was it meant to discourage people from buying Antminers.  The unit I received today is currently hashing better than by first batch 4 unit.  I will likely be purchasing the coming "upgrade" package as well.

Happy hashing!

-Dave

He paid for goods and they were damaged - it's normal to complain about that is it not? Albeit his miner mines so I see what you mean...

I care because i  factor resale into my ..ahem... "profit" happy to swap...cases

Seriously, why do you care? I have a miner that looks perfect, but only 9 out of 10 boards hash. Do you want to exchange? LOL

I ordered Sat, delivered wednesday to UK... not bad.

 Has anyone approached bitmain re damaged cases? i have two folded corners and a dent in the top.

......@bitmain ( shouts into the dark ) "Any replacement cases sent out?"

Looking forward to your photo !