ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 11.

molitar

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Quote from: aarons6 on February 18, 2016, 04:52:34 PM

Quote from: molitar on February 18, 2016, 04:39:47 PM

I just recently got an Antminer S3 given to me that he purchased at Christmas time. I finally got a chance to work on it and I purchased the HP 1000W power supply with the breakout card. I got it up and running over clocked to the 237.5Mhz setting with the latest Bitmain official firmware. Took me a while to get packages to work due to the paths needing editing. I was also having issues with wireless but after firmware update it's been running decent for about 24 hours now without losing the wireless connection or IP.

Overclocked at 237.5Mhz with 2 power connections. I wasn't sure if it would run at 250Mhz ok or not being new to this.

Is there a newer firmware that I should be using? Is Antpool a good pool to use? Any thing I else I should be aware of as a total newb to these miners?

Thanks

you should have all 4 plugged in, with 4 seperate wires not the one wire with 2 ends.

kano has a binary update.. its not a complete firmware update but it really makes the s3 more stable.

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

you have to SSH into the s3 to run the commands..
i suggest putty to do that..
http://www.putty.org/

Thanks I have updated the firmware to that version and plugged the other 2 cables into the S3.

aarons6

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Quote from: gt_addict on February 18, 2016, 05:12:23 PM

Aaahhhhh that makes more sense now. Cheers.

keep in mind it didnt do it all at once..

it did one (on an s3), i replaced it, a few months later it did another (on a s5).. and almost a year later it did another (same s5).

someone said it might have been a bad connection.. those tiny little prongs probably arent the best for transferring 100W+ continuously 24/7

gt_addict

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Aaahhhhh that makes more sense now. Cheers.

aarons6

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Quote from: gt_addict on February 18, 2016, 04:59:21 PM

I've read everywhere that when you overclock the s3 (in my case I'm overclocking an s3+) to 250freq that you need four separate cables. I took a chance on plugging my split end cables from my corsair rm1000 into it and it's been fine for weeks. The cables aren't even getting warm and the miner is plodding away at a 503.3ghs average.

My other s3 (not plus) won't take even a slight increase in freq without chips getting errors.

the issue isnt the cable itself.. its where its plugged in.

ALWAYS use 4 separate wires..
this was powering an S5 with 4 separate wires and it still melted 3 of them.

gt_addict

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I've read everywhere that when you overclock the s3 (in my case I'm overclocking an s3+) to 250freq that you need four separate cables. I took a chance on plugging my split end cables from my corsair rm1000 into it and it's been fine for weeks. The cables aren't even getting warm and the miner is plodding away at a 503.3ghs average.

My other s3 (not plus) won't take even a slight increase in freq without chips getting errors.

aarons6

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Quote from: molitar on February 18, 2016, 04:39:47 PM

I just recently got an Antminer S3 given to me that he purchased at Christmas time. I finally got a chance to work on it and I purchased the HP 1000W power supply with the breakout card. I got it up and running over clocked to the 237.5Mhz setting with the latest Bitmain official firmware. Took me a while to get packages to work due to the paths needing editing. I was also having issues with wireless but after firmware update it's been running decent for about 24 hours now without losing the wireless connection or IP.

Overclocked at 237.5Mhz with 2 power connections. I wasn't sure if it would run at 250Mhz ok or not being new to this.

Is there a newer firmware that I should be using? Is Antpool a good pool to use? Any thing I else I should be aware of as a total newb to these miners?

Thanks

you should have all 4 plugged in, with 4 seperate wires not the one wire with 2 ends.

kano has a binary update.. its not a complete firmware update but it really makes the s3 more stable.

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

you have to SSH into the s3 to run the commands..
i suggest putty to do that..
http://www.putty.org/

molitar

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I just recently got an Antminer S3 given to me that he purchased at Christmas time. I finally got a chance to work on it and I purchased the HP 1000W power supply with the breakout card. I got it up and running over clocked to the 237.5Mhz setting with the latest Bitmain official firmware. Took me a while to get packages to work due to the paths needing editing. I was also having issues with wireless but after firmware update it's been running decent for about 24 hours now without losing the wireless connection or IP.

Overclocked at 237.5Mhz with 2 power connections. I wasn't sure if it would run at 250Mhz ok or not being new to this.

Is there a newer firmware that I should be using? Is Antpool a good pool to use? Any thing I else I should be aware of as a total newb to these miners?

Thanks

peter1970uk

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well dragged an old router out of the cupboard and it worked straight away don't know why the asus stopped it working its not exactly a cheap router but alls good now

peter1970uk

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i was wondering about isp as well as I'm with talk talk in uk and they block a lot of stuff up to now its not bothered me as its mainly filesharing or video steaming sites, and only been the illeagal ones so far.

Mikestang

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Hmm, well dmz should negate any firewall issues. Do you have another location you can try them from? I wonder if it's something to do with your isp even, maybe?

peter1970uk

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a few days ago I set the miner as the dmz in the router which is asus dsl-ac68u but it made no diference

notlist3d

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On firewall what router do you have? I know I had a all in one modem/router from fiber company. It was utter crap it stopped a lot of outgoing traffic including some miners and part of my security system.

What is you using as far as router/modem?

underachieved

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I second firewall.

pinhead666

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Firewall propably, looks like that miner gets work ok, but it can't send anything, no accepted shares, no lsdiff/lstime.

Mikestang

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Do you have another location you can try them from? Could it be something with your firewall that is preventing the miners from talking to the pool? If you run a full node, can you try solo mining against your node?

Very strange problem, because they look like they are hashing just fine but not talking to the outside world.

peter1970uk

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poolside shows an alert to say its not hashing at all, thought it was a faulty s3 so bought a second and that's doing the exact same thing, and I have tried it on several pools and all the same including kanos`s pool

pinhead666

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I can't help with your problem, never seen behaviour like that. I leave this for wiser men. What does pool side hash-rate show? I'm pretty sure miner works right but something is missing from your fw package and stats are missing a bit or two.

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Quote from: peter1970uk on February 12, 2016, 04:30:19 PM

erm not good with internet stuff so I hope this works https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153841317905450&set=pb.665735449.-2207520000.1455312537.&type=3&theater

I followed you link, right clicked the picture, and copied image location, then posted that link into image tags.

Google "free image host", you don't need to post it to facebook. I like tinypict myself. The free hosts will give you a direct link to the image which you can insert into the image tags in the forum.

It doesn't look like you are submitting shares to your pools properly (and those pool you are using are terrible for bitcoin, but that's another subject). Make sure your pool settings are correct or maybe try a different pool...

peter1970uk

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erm not good with internet stuff so I hope this works https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153841317905450&set=pb.665735449.-2207520000.1455312537.&type=3&theater

pinhead666

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Screenshot of miner status page would clear things a little for me. What do you mean with scoring hash? Average hashrate on status page or pool side hash-rate?

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