Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 365. (Read 710164 times)

Have you attempted a complete shutdown and startup?  Switch the PCI-e cables around or use 4 cables.

I did not know that , what do they use for controllers then?

S3 controller boards do not utilize sd cards.

what if you made a new sd card for that unit. Use win32diskimager and extract the image off one of your working s3 sd card and make a new sd card for the non working unit.

I still haven't received my 7.7% BTC refund.  Has anyone else received theirs yet?  Come on Bitmaintech, you expect payment for orders within an hour but when it comes to a small refund we have to wait weeks.  BTC is supposed to be instant.

@ bitmain

Please tell me how to get rid of the following issue:

The web interface only shows this on startup:

That totally sucks, my miner should be delivered today but now "Held in Warehouse" and "Additional documentation is required on the merchandise description". Anyone had the same issue?

I think we always hear the bad but never the good


I ordered from batch 5 (missed 4) used my 10% coupons but accidentally paid to my batch 1 payment address.
emailed Bitmain and they had the issue fixed within 6 hours (whew!)

Great customer service. I could have lost BTC on that order due to my own stupidity but Bitmain fixed it for me.

edit: THANK YOU BITMAIN

BITMAIN really has to work on their customer relations. Missing refunds, careless customer service...

I was batch 1

ordered 18 S3 miners

One S3 had 14 chips marked x and eventually -

I contacted bitmain via the new messaging system on their website and patiently awaited a reply for the next 7 days.

In the mean time another unit stopped hashing although I could view the web gui. Just no chains.. gone.... Fans at full tilt. Tried re-seating cables.. nope.

So, I took the control board out of the unit with the 14 dead chips and put it in the unit with no chains... Success, a functioning S3 again.

Contacting Bitmain on these forums I explained the situation as was directed to email them. Which I did, explained the whole ordeal and asked for advise on what to do with malfunctioning unit.

Flash new firmware was the reply, dont check keep settings. Failure. I informed them so. Silence...

Over my time I have made 24 seperate orders from BITMAIN totalling ~50BTC.
First time ive contacted them to say, "Hey, this ones broken".

Im not big on public outcries, however, on this forum-thread I note another member who had controller board problems and it wasnt until he made it public that action was received in the form of an RMA.

So, here I am

I sure can give a few reasons. How about you go back to page 143 of this thread and read about it. Here is a link to that post.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8039889

The long and short of it was ordered batch 1. 25.5 hours later account changed to a batch 2. No contact made Ever from their side about the alteration. Checked 14 days later to try and guess where in batch 1 I was and WOW suddenly I am overpaying not only for batch 1 but its now magically a batch 2. I start disputing the change. In 48 hours I got 1 email replied to the first never was replied to. Fair compensation for an item I do not want and was not contacted before someone acted as a purchasing agent was 0.02 btc. 112bit took my bitcoins, moved my order to a later batch (they oversold batch 1), made no effort to get my permission to alter our agreement and while in dispute shipped the damned thing. To make matters worse out of 7 emails I have received 3 replies in 8 days. I got my tracking # the day it was put into the depot (6 days after it was "shipped") of course being a good authorized distributor located in Florida USA the package came from China. Since it was handled so marvelously apparently batch 1, 2 or 3 really make no difference as to shipping day so 112bit doesn't seem concerned about it.

I'm waiting to know if he would agree to I think a more reasonable everything over 1.48 he charged me or a full refund. Of course Tuesday or Wednesday it heads back. Then reasonable is full refund.

I think I misread your sarcasm. Sorry.

Why not...Any reason...

Juan is legit...and a good guy..."Trust me..." 

At this point I wouldn't.

Of course your purchase may be better handled then mine.

They're 580s, which is the only reason we still have them in operation. We have them tasked as ITSP termini so the fact that every component is redundant and the processor trays can be replaced in minutes makes them still quite useful. Our lease at this site includes free power so our considerations for life-cycle are a bit different than your other more-lean sites.

Those G4s take me back. Heavy as hell but reliable.

We retired an open-stack cluster full of c6100s so we have these custom AcBel power supplies with 3 12+ rails that we use for...well...every miner we deploy.

And trust me when I tell you, our DC techs are some certified mad scientists...
Bringing metal back from the dead on the daily. (See some of those G4s?  )

I really love this pic. BTCkenstein coming to life in the DC. Throw a mad scientist in there and the pic is perfect.

yes and the sad thing is diff is on pace to be under 10%  third diff jump in a row..

so put 9% in your calc and these roi very nicely.  we are in the summer s-1's are being pulled off line.  and this stops the skyhigh diff jumps.  I am thinking we may go into sept before a jump over 15% happens.  these lower diff jumps will be good to anyone that has some s-3's mining now.  my batch 1's have mined for 10 days already.

This is the best I can do. Optimal settings are 218.





Even running that cool, I can't squeeze anything else out of them.
The only thing I haven't done is remove and re-paste the heatsinks.
But I just don't think that's going to be it...

EDIT: Just FYI, I'm running --queue 1 with lower loads over the past few hours.

There's been a a whole rash of new threads lately. I'm starting to think its mostly just other miners trying to commit subterfuge to keep the difficulty low