Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 382. (Read 710164 times)
I just removed my fan grills and the condo got a bit quieter.
Are there any "guides" on the web showing how to flash the firmware, I dont have a clue as to how it's done.
Thanks
Bob
Thanks
Bob
bob,
Download the image from bitmaintech. Accessed via the Support page. (antMiner_S320140721.bin)
Log on to your miner's home page.
Click the System tab
Click Backup / Flash Firmware
Bottom option 'Flash new firmware image' click Browse and open the directory you downloaded the file to. Click Open and then the click Flash Image button.
It will upload the file to the miner.
When complete click the Proceed button on the page that opens.
The miner will reboot with the new firmware.
Thanks, sounds simple enough
Bob
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
BTW - I am aware of guys running two S1s overclocked with the server power supplies and having no issues. Personally, I have not tried them. I have heard some claim they are loud. But I have been around those using them and found them to be fairly quiet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281359603322&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
I use 8 of these and if you put DIP SWITCH 1 to the ON position they are quieter then ATX supplies. AND very little heat !
Agreed - these are very quiet. But the Dell's are LOUD!
Warning- That ebay link is using out pictures without permission, and is selling the PSU for much much than we carry it for.
http://minersource.net/products/dell-750w-psu-slash-adapter
I was able to get the discarded amount lowered as well as the load. I changed the queue to 0 from 4096 and added --scan-time 1 --expiry 1 to the cgminer file.
***IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT THIS MEANS DO NOT TRY AS YOU WILL BRICK YOUR UNIT***
This is the first attempt, not sure if 0 is the optimal queue value for all pools but if you are a P2P miner you may want to try this out. I use a smaller pool and my numbers have gone up. This is along the same tune you could do for an S1 but a far cry from what we did in the GPU days. I have another unit running at a lower speed but have the same results.
SSH in then:
Find line 75 PARAMS...at the end change --queue 0 and add --scan-time 1 --expiry 1 before the quotation.
***DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND AS YOU WILL BRICK YOUR UNIT****
Before Config Change (I added a line so it is easy to see, I took it out when I finished)
After Config Change
Ant Before
Ant After CHECK THE LOAD VALUES
***IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT THIS MEANS DO NOT TRY AS YOU WILL BRICK YOUR UNIT***
This is the first attempt, not sure if 0 is the optimal queue value for all pools but if you are a P2P miner you may want to try this out. I use a smaller pool and my numbers have gone up. This is along the same tune you could do for an S1 but a far cry from what we did in the GPU days. I have another unit running at a lower speed but have the same results.
SSH in then:
Code:
vim /etc/init.d/cgminer
--scan-time 1 --expiry 1
Find line 75 PARAMS...at the end change --queue 0 and add --scan-time 1 --expiry 1 before the quotation.
***DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND AS YOU WILL BRICK YOUR UNIT****
Before Config Change (I added a line so it is easy to see, I took it out when I finished)
After Config Change
Ant Before
Ant After CHECK THE LOAD VALUES
looks like the load was lowered, but it is hashing slower with less accepted shares
Has anyone successfully flashed the new firmware and kept their old settings?
Regarding the new firmware:There is a box that you can leave 'ticked' to retain your settings. I flashed it and the settings are retained (as insurance, i saved the configuration file, which is easy to do: System tab, backup/flash firmware, the upper part is the backup/restore area - 'generate archive', after the 'setting archive' is generated you 'download' it to your pc)
Flashing new firmware is on the same System tab, backup/flash firmware, Flash new firmware image: leave the tick in the box of "Keep settings:", then simply follow "Image:" browse to the location of the image file (assuming that you have downloaded it already from Bitmain's support page), follow the prompts... There is an interim step that tells you what the selected image size is and the checksum, if you are happy with those click on 'proceed', then wait for the process to complete until your Antminer reboots and presents a new login prompt on the web gui.
Just did this and it works
Too early to declare results, but preliminary impressions are positive (nothing 'earth shattering' though).Cheers
Are there any "guides" on the web showing how to flash the firmware, I dont have a clue as to how it's done.
Thanks
Bob
Thanks
Bob
bob,
Download the image from bitmaintech. Accessed via the Support page. (antMiner_S320140721.bin)
Log on to your miner's home page.
Click the System tab
Click Backup / Flash Firmware
Bottom option 'Flash new firmware image' click Browse and open the directory you downloaded the file to. Click Open and then the click Flash Image button.
It will upload the file to the miner.
When complete click the Proceed button on the page that opens.
The miner will reboot with the new firmware.
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
BTW - I am aware of guys running two S1s overclocked with the server power supplies and having no issues. Personally, I have not tried them. I have heard some claim they are loud. But I have been around those using them and found them to be fairly quiet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281359603322&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
I use 8 of these and if you put DIP SWITCH 1 to the ON position they are quieter then ATX supplies. AND very little heat !
Agreed - these are very quiet. But the Dell's are LOUD!
Has anyone successfully flashed the new firmware and kept their old settings?
What do you guys think about load balancing the pools?
I seem to be getting a few extra gh/s and my discards went down.
I still have a lot of discards though and I know others do as well, has anyone found a way to bring the discards down?
What do you guys think about load balancing the pools?
I seem to be getting a few extra gh/s and my discards went down.
I still have a lot of discards though and I know others do as well, has anyone found a way to bring the discards down?
Ok, GH/s are about the same. Discards are less than double the accepted shares, which is better than 6 times the accepted shares, as I had before.
Take note, I have not updated the firmware yet. All I have done is switch from Failover to Load-Balancing and started mining across three different pools..
One more thing I noticed. I have best shares now, when they used to just say 0.
One of my S3's overclocks like a beast!
The other sadly doesn't suffer the same fate! it's hashing at 430 at 218, any higher and the rate drops!
That is a lot of discarded shares, how does that work out?The other sadly doesn't suffer the same fate! it's hashing at 430 at 218, any higher and the rate drops!
Does anyone know how to change the command line arguments ran from cron for cgminer on antminer s3? I want to add scan-time and lower the queue, I'm getting way too many discarded it does not look good. Hashrate is steady and HW is low, but the discarded work on one of the miners is ridiculous
54m 56s
420.61 5s
429.34 avg
1,308 accepted
1 rejected
31 hw
1,233 discarded
PM Me. I've been trying to find someone to discuss this with for a few hours now. Default queue setting on the S3 is 4096, which just seems insane. I've been playing with adding scantime and expiry with little result. I have not touched the queue yet. I'm waiting to see if anyone knows my BMT set it so high to begin with.
it is my understanding it is a cronjob running cgminer with launch options ?
Has anyone successfully flashed the new firmware and kept their old settings?
What do you guys think about load balancing the pools?
I seem to be getting a few extra gh/s and my discards went down.
I still have a lot of discards though and I know others do as well, has anyone found a way to bring the discards down?
What do you guys think about load balancing the pools?
I seem to be getting a few extra gh/s and my discards went down.
I still have a lot of discards though and I know others do as well, has anyone found a way to bring the discards down?
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
BTW - I am aware of guys running two S1s overclocked with the server power supplies and having no issues. Personally, I have not tried them. I have heard some claim they are loud. But I have been around those using them and found them to be fairly quiet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281359603322&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
I use 8 of these and if you put DIP SWITCH 1 to the ON position they are quieter then ATX supplies. AND very little heat !
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
BTW - I am aware of guys running two S1s overclocked with the server power supplies and having no issues. Personally, I have not tried them. I have heard some claim they are loud. But I have been around those using them and found them to be fairly quiet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281359603322&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
any S3 coupon for sale? pm me.
Are there any "guides" on the web showing how to flash the firmware, I dont have a clue as to how it's done.
Thanks
Bob
Thanks
Bob
There is a new S3 firmware image on the Bitmain support page: antMiner_S320140721.bin
Cheers
Cheers
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
I have been running two S3 all week on a Thermaltake 750M with no issues. I am not overclocking.
Wish I could buy one of these but as a poor university student I definitely can't. My tuition of $4,800 could definitely buy some mining power.. Lol
If you live in a dorm with "FREE" electricity, you might be able to work a deal with someone. You host their miners and you get a cut of the earnings.
When my son goes back to school in August, I'm sending him my S1's to run for me in his dorm room.
You know those universities and all of society still have to pay for that electricity and that consumption takes away from other areas the university could use the funds? That electricity does not just come free out of thin air. It really has to be paid for. Just because it is hard to account for this consumption doesn't mean it is somehow 'free'.
Is burdening our universities with this extra expense really worth the few pennies in bitcoin you will receive? The one part of society that can least afford loss of resources is our educational system.
What a dick.
I invite the entire bitcoin hashing community to call out this bad and criminal behavior of using other people's 'free' electricity. This is mere theft of a profoundly irresponsible nature. Please stop stealing electricity for hashing.
I just recall my dormroom 20 years ago and I (and a roommate) could never have put up with the noise and heat from an S1 for more than 5 minutes.
s-1's are very quiet if they are undervolted via pencil mods and down clocked to freq 275 hash at 140gh with 180 watts.
I ran 3 at 420 gh and 560 watts for 2 months. in a friends office. He has reduced power rates as per his lease agreement. 84 percent of 15 cents a kwatt drops him to 2.4 cents a kwatt.
Supposedly colleges all across the US are cracking down on this and prohibiting miners in the dorms this coming Fall semester. Some did so this past Spring and current Summer sessions. I recently picked up some S1s and PSUs from students returning to college because they could not have them there in the dorms.
That's why smart landlords must be sure to restrict or prohibit mining. If you're violating a contract that is theft. If you're using electricity promised to you as part of your rental agreement, it is not theft.
Edited to add: I suppose a provision in the rental agreement about commercial use of the space could also be a violation to make it illegal.
I have personally been out looking at office/warehouse space were as I might lease and setup my miners on commercial electricity rates, but thus far, everything I have looked at they are asking over $2K per month.
Looking for some help with PSU choice for s3, have read a few people talking about running two S3 from one power supply, looking at Corsair 850HX 80 plus silver (£75), Corsair 750HX 80 plus silver and (£66) Evga 750 super nova 80plus bronze (£61). Will these psu run 2 machines ? any user had experience or thoughts on running two S3 or S1 from these power supply's, Overclocked all my Antminer S1 from day one and none of them have ever missed a beat, reading posts on forum don't think i will overclocking the S3 for now. Currently use Corsair cx600m 80 plus bronze for miners which cost me about £55 each have eight S3 from batch 4 if i could save £200 by using only 4psu goes a long way to helping with ROI, any help would be appreciated.
This is gonna be a long weekend waiting for my S3's. They made a stop over in Alaska so no worries about shuffling around Shenzhen at least.
Same here! Mine are on UPS flight #63 en route to Louisville Worldhub. Its going to be a long weekend indeed.
Wonder how many S3's are on these daily flights?!
Fortunately 3 of mine made it here this week. One Batch 1 and two Batch 2. I have like 14 more Batch 2 ordered and paid for, but yet to receive a tracking number.
Wish I could buy one of these but as a poor university student I definitely can't. My tuition of $4,800 could definitely buy some mining power.. Lol
If you live in a dorm with "FREE" electricity, you might be able to work a deal with someone. You host their miners and you get a cut of the earnings.
When my son goes back to school in August, I'm sending him my S1's to run for me in his dorm room.
You know those universities and all of society still have to pay for that electricity and that consumption takes away from other areas the university could use the funds? That electricity does not just come free out of thin air. It really has to be paid for. Just because it is hard to account for this consumption doesn't mean it is somehow 'free'.
Is burdening our universities with this extra expense really worth the few pennies in bitcoin you will receive? The one part of society that can least afford loss of resources is our educational system.
What a dick.
I invite the entire bitcoin hashing community to call out this bad and criminal behavior of using other people's 'free' electricity. This is mere theft of a profoundly irresponsible nature. Please stop stealing electricity for hashing.
I just recall my dormroom 20 years ago and I (and a roommate) could never have put up with the noise and heat from an S1 for more than 5 minutes.
s-1's are very quiet if they are undervolted via pencil mods and down clocked to freq 275 hash at 140gh with 180 watts.
I ran 3 at 420 gh and 560 watts for 2 months. in a friends office. He has reduced power rates as per his lease agreement. 84 percent of 15 cents a kwatt drops him to 2.4 cents a kwatt.
Supposedly colleges all across the US are cracking down on this and prohibiting miners in the dorms this coming Fall semester. Some did so this past Spring and current Summer sessions. I recently picked up some S1s and PSUs from students returning to college because they could not have them there in the dorms.
That's why smart landlords must be sure to restrict or prohibit mining. If you're violating a contract that is theft. If you're using electricity promised to you as part of your rental agreement, it is not theft.
Edited to add: I suppose a provision in the rental agreement about commercial use of the space could also be a violation to make it illegal.
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