What do you mean by "Every time i try and download the latest frimware, it appears to take to my mac but not on the antminers themselves"? On firmware be VERY careful but downloading it to your mac will not update the miner. You would have to download to mac then update miner through web interface.
What happens when you put in your pool / user and click apply? Does it save it in configuration page?
And if you have three miners you have to change the ip so all are not running on stock ip. Easiest way is to connect all miners after you upgraded them go to your routers/modem log in page and through there assign ip's to your server write these down label the miner for easy access and log in to each miner individually remember that they may reset ip after upgrade.
Firmware here
https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633There should be an manual with firmware on bitmain website. refer to manual.
https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/Antminer%20S3%20Manual_EN_2014.7.16.pdfOkay so Ive worked through all the problems I view as the networking side of things already. Such as Changing them to separate ip addresses, Accessing them all on the router and through there web interfaces. The flash firmware step was definitely a piece I was missing on the actual antminer, I kept downloading firmware and missing the button to apply it on the miner SO THANK YOU for that.... But ive now done that here this morning and im still showing 94 percent someodd free space here in my miner software screen.....
http://postimg.org/image/6j151dtjn/73021405/ Im still not hashing but everything else seems to be connected.... When i did have one of these up and running the amount of free space was around 40%..... Does anyone know what i need to alter in regards to that potentially solving this for me?
i had tons of problems with the jan 2015 firmware for the s3.
currently on the dec 19 2014 firmware on mine and they are working fine.
if you downgrade make sure to uncheck the box to keep the settings.
is that the second to last option? do you recall? im trying that now i also notcied when i hit update lists on top of that 90 percent bar... just to see what happened. I get this.
http://postimg.org/image/r44w2smyn/acc76e31/ trying second to last firm update now
it seems bitmain took off the 12/19 firmware.
i think the 10/13 one had the lau bug where you couldnt hit accept.
anything prior to that had a bug where the reset button didnt work..
i can post the 12/19 firmware.. but i think dogie has it in a dropbox somewhere, maybe he can send the link.
here is the 12/19 firmware, with the updated cgminer and the text to install it
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1a4hmtrplqmw6h0/AntMiner_Firmware.rari claim no responsibility if you mess up your s3 flashing this.. but this is the firmware i use on my s3s.. it came from bitmain as a beta firmware.
it seems to be the most stable for me with the fewest HWE.
make sure to uncheck the box to keep settings. doing so should reset the ip on the miner to 192.168.1.99