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Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 259. (Read 710164 times)

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Is anybody using the Antmonitor software together with the new firmware?
After updating the firmware, the monitor does not display any values for this S3.
In the webinterface and pool all is ok.

Yup Same here, for me M's Antmonitor crashes on a dot net error, and CGremote Can't query the Api to get the pool data.

Good thing i only flashed 1 Ant, i wonder if you can downgrade the Firmware to go back 1 version so i can get it to display properly.

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I tried it out and my ant decided to just sit back, relax and open up a beer at 100 gh/s. Rolled back and it's still just dicking about at 400gh/s instead. Maybe I did something wrong
legendary
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add frequency advanced setting

I wonder if it's for OC / DC via web.

Edit: Also, how do I check my current FW ?
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I thank you so much 1Neptune.
Valuable information for me.

Glad I could help. I just happened to have specific information for the situation. Good luck.
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I thank you so much 1Neptune.
Valuable information for me.
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There are 262 pages not easy to read them all.

My S3 will be in my hands tomorrow. What I would like to learn is whether I can use a Butterfly labs 50GH/s Power Supply on Antminer S3 ?
I have already bought a 600W PSU with two 6 pin cables because I'm not going to overclock.
But if Butterfly labs PSU works with S3 I will give the new one back.

If anybody can give an idea I appreciate...


I have a BFL60 (the one that was supposed to run at 60GH/s but actually runs somewhere between 50 and 57 GH/s) with the power supply that came with it from BFL. The power supply I was running an S3 on decided to quit and the power supply from the BFL60 was the only one around that I could pull and use. I ran the S3 on the BFL power supply for almost three days waiting for a replacement Corsair CX500 to come in for the S3.

Check the label on the BFL power supply. If it produces 31 amps of 12v then you have enough to run an S3 but don't even think of trying to over clock it while on the BFL power supply. Consider the BFL power supply a short term solution only.
legendary
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

Miner 1
Time: 2h 23m 11s
5s: 451.62
Av.: 445.94
HW: 269
Diff A: 867,072
Diff R: 2,560

Miner 2
Time: 3h 6m 23s
5s: 471.79
Av.: 474.91
HW: 927
Diff A: 1,222,656
Diff R: 4,096

Miner 3
Time: 2h 56m 37s
5s: 468.71
Avg.: 458.37
HW: 86
Diff A: 1,109,504
Diff R: 1,536

Miner 4
Time: 3h 6m 6s
5s: 501.62
Avg.: 475.88
HW: 54
Diff A: 1,244,160
Diff R: 1,536

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

Power consumption?
Each one on it's own min 1k watt PSU using all four power ports. Have done a reset or two since the quoted post but all four seem stable now all ~470Gh/s @ 237.5. I can with certainty say I wont be attempting 250 since 2 of 4 miners seemed flaky at first on 237.5, but like I said. After some resets, all seem fine now on that freq doing ~470.

Miner 1 new Uptime: ~1hr
Miner 2 new Uptime: ~1hr 30min
Miner 3 new Uptime: ~1hr 30min
Miner 4 new Uptime: ~1hr 30min

Will be checking them off and on til I go to bed tonight but if any are showing x's / aren't hashing ~470 this time tomorrow which will give me ~24hrs. I'll have to DC the "bad" ones to 225 and see how they hold for 24hrs.

I was thinking of having my collo guy re-paste them but I doubt it would do anything, and besides that... all temps look good right now.

Miner 1: 42/42
Miner 2: 43/42
Miner 3: 42/42
Miner 4: 40/43

I did notice the high RPM on miner 2... FWIW, here's all the units RPM's. Assuming all checks out this time tomorrow, I'll upload pics and work out the HW%.

Miner 1: 3180/1860
Miner 2: 10,080/11,040
Miner 3: 1920/1800
Miner 4: 2460/2040
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Could anybody give me any suggestions as to why my antminer seems to be running kinda shit?


Seems to want to only hold 400 gh/s comfortably. Those spikes at the end are the results of reboots. Whenever I reboot it, it runs nicely for a bit, then deteriorates back down to 400. Never seems to be able to hold the 440gh/s as expected.

I have it running off a Corsair 750W PSU with all four PCI-E cables connected so power shouldn't be an issue. It is also running completely stock, I tried overclocking to 'compensate' for this shortfall but even slight overclocks produced great instability and knocked out one of the chips.

I've looked about and this seems kinda like a rare issue but my ant just doesn't want to play ball.

That's typical of ghash - try a different pool

It's not ghash it's btc guild Tongue
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There are 262 pages not easy to read them all.

My S3 will be in my hands tomorrow. What I would like to learn is whether I can use a Butterfly labs 50GH/s Power Supply on Antminer S3 ?
I have already bought a 600W PSU with two 6 pin cables because I'm not going to overclock.
But if Butterfly labs PSU works with S3 I will give the new one back.

If anybody can give an idea I appreciate...
hero member
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Could anybody give me any suggestions as to why my antminer seems to be running kinda shit?


Seems to want to only hold 400 gh/s comfortably. Those spikes at the end are the results of reboots. Whenever I reboot it, it runs nicely for a bit, then deteriorates back down to 400. Never seems to be able to hold the 440gh/s as expected.

I have it running off a Corsair 750W PSU with all four PCI-E cables connected so power shouldn't be an issue. It is also running completely stock, I tried overclocking to 'compensate' for this shortfall but even slight overclocks produced great instability and knocked out one of the chips.

I've looked about and this seems kinda like a rare issue but my ant just doesn't want to play ball.

That's typical of ghash - try a different pool
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

Miner 1
Time: 2h 23m 11s
5s: 451.62
Av.: 445.94
HW: 269
Diff A: 867,072
Diff R: 2,560

Miner 2
Time: 3h 6m 23s
5s: 471.79
Av.: 474.91
HW: 927
Diff A: 1,222,656
Diff R: 4,096

Miner 3
Time: 2h 56m 37s
5s: 468.71
Avg.: 458.37
HW: 86
Diff A: 1,109,504
Diff R: 1,536

Miner 4
Time: 3h 6m 6s
5s: 501.62
Avg.: 475.88
HW: 54
Diff A: 1,244,160
Diff R: 1,536

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

Power consumption?
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
the 3 on the evga are doing 1120 watts and about 1300gh

nice numbers.
sr. member
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Did you try opening it and replacing the thermal paste? Some of the units ship with horrible thermal paste. It could also be a heat issue. I'm not an expert on the issue.

I watch the "miner status" page like a hawk and have not once seen it hit any higher than 43 - 45. I only rarely hear the fans really get going.
legendary
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I got a pair of them in today.

 I have 3 running on my evga 1300

they are doing

the old batch 4

231.25
231.25

the new batch 6

237.50 - 479gh low hw

and one is on a seasonic platinum 760 watt.

it is doing

218.75  437gh  very low hw
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Could anybody give me any suggestions as to why my antminer seems to be running kinda shit?


Seems to want to only hold 400 gh/s comfortably. Those spikes at the end are the results of reboots. Whenever I reboot it, it runs nicely for a bit, then deteriorates back down to 400. Never seems to be able to hold the 440gh/s as expected.

I have it running off a Corsair 750W PSU with all four PCI-E cables connected so power shouldn't be an issue. It is also running completely stock, I tried overclocking to 'compensate' for this shortfall but even slight overclocks produced great instability and knocked out one of the chips.

I've looked about and this seems kinda like a rare issue but my ant just doesn't want to play ball.

Did you try opening it and replacing the thermal paste? Some of the units ship with horrible thermal paste. It could also be a heat issue. I'm not an expert on the issue.
sr. member
Activity: 356
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Could anybody give me any suggestions as to why my antminer seems to be running kinda shit?



Seems to want to only hold 400 gh/s comfortably. Those spikes at the end are the results of reboots. Whenever I reboot it, it runs nicely for a bit, then deteriorates back down to 400. Never seems to be able to hold the 440gh/s as expected.

I have it running off a Corsair 750W PSU with all four PCI-E cables connected so power shouldn't be an issue. It is also running completely stock, I tried overclocking to 'compensate' for this shortfall but even slight overclocks produced great instability and knocked out one of the chips.

I've looked about and this seems kinda like a rare issue but my ant just doesn't want to play ball.
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Think I had my first S3 die, want to confirm. Got idle miner notification, was able to connect to box, cgminer would start when crash
  • restarted box - no change
  • power-cycled box - no change
  • noticed the web interface kept throwing "file not found" errors
  • thought maybe file system corruption, replaced cgminer binary from good miner -- no change
  • figured i'd try a code upgrade -- no change
  • swapped PSU -- no change

when I start cgminer from the CLI, it will run for a while, but at about 100-110GH.. none of the ASIC show disabled.

decided to power cycle it again, and now it won't come back up.. it's on, but the RED LED just flashes ON..wait.. OFF.. wait.. ON... wait.. forever.

is it dead? Suggestions for recovery?

Took a quick video, two booted at the same time.. at around 32 seconds you can see the right one take off, left one never does.

https://vid.me/Hq1



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Is anybody using the Antmonitor software together with the new firmware?
After updating the firmware, the monitor does not display any values for this S3.
In the webinterface and pool all is ok.
legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1001
Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178
Try Ant Monitor. Its pretty useful. It will tell you your HW% and you can set up alerts. Use the S1 settings when setting up.
Can't until M patches it for hosted outside the home network machines.

I made mine wireless and I connect through the router. I can jump on any computer in the house and monitor it.

Edit: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8062114
After you connect it just treat it like an S1 and you can set up the wireless. Once you connect to the wifi it will be named WWAN by default. Go to WAN and change it to DHCP client and save and apply it. Disconnect the wire and turn the power off and on.

I reserved the DHCP on my router for the Antminer's MAC address so it will always have that IP.
Sorry but there's no wireless antenna I can put on my machines 5hrs away from me.
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