Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 439. (Read 710164 times)

Update re the beeping issue (see various people's posts upthread, back at least as far as page 71).

As chadbu suggested, I tried changing difficulty to 512 from 256 at my main pool. I was skeptical of this, but it was easy to do. Results were interesting but inconclusive. Beeping stopped for hours but eventually showed up, and share rate dropped. Both effects could be mere coincidence. "More research needed".

The case was easily opened, five screws on each side as people have posted. The beeper was easy to find using minter12345's photo from page 75: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7922856

I used felt pads intended for cupboard doors, something like those suggested by philipma1957 on page 77: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7925833 and stuck them on top of each machine's beeper.

I stopped short of Datto's solution (page 76) but that may have to come later on: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7924158 - perhaps even numnutz2009's solution from page 77 if I can remember which end of my soldering iron to hold: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7926273

On restart, each S3 beeped twice. The sound is definitely less shrill now but is far from silent. I'm hoping it is enough to placate my wife, and the real cause of all this fuss in our household - our dog, who started shivering when she heard the original beeps and has been wary ever since - she reacts the same way to smoke alarm beeps, which may be a good thing.

Thanks to all for the help and suggestions. For those who tuned in late, setting Beeper Ringing to False in the configuration tab does not stop the beeping. Oh - I found no thermal paste residue on the units, unlike the early S1s. The S3 is a nice piece of work, all in all.

just start ship.   

Yes, you probably got the absolutely best by the luck of the draw.
My best machine can barely handle 237.5 with speeds slowly crawling toward 470ish-I'll take it if it will be stable. I will post tomorrow when it stabilizes as I switched from default just a couple of hours ago. HW errors are in the thousands, but formula says that they are just a tad below 0.6%, which is manageable. At 218.75, this miner had almost no HW errors (like a dozen in 12hr).
My batch 2 machines had not shipped yet-would be interesting to see how they behave.

that 45 - 46 is "okay'  but   the temp probe may      not by near the dc to dc part that bitmaintech says could burn out.

BTW you are getting really  good overclock numbers.  my gear did not over clock well at all.

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

3 S3's received on the 17th. Set them all up with 750w PSU's of various sort.

First 24 hours all 3 OC'd to 250 mhz and getting about 500gh/s each. stoked!

After about 28 hours, notice one "x" on the first S3. Rebooted, went away for about ten minutes them returned. Average hashrate dropped to 470ghs. Set it down to 237.5, all "o" and getting about 475 ghs average, little more on poolside. I'lll take it!

A bit concerned that one has temps of 46 sometimes, during hotter times of the day. Is this too hot to maintain?

What differs in opendns from googledns, for both the miner need to lookup remote db.
May have host cache too. Or need to enter pool ip directly in miner if possible.
For bigger miners alt pools will provide dedicated IP. Not sure about btc pools.

It's also Google, which means every lookup you do is stored in a database somewhere.

I recommend OpenDNS:

    208.67.222.222
    208.67.220.220

www.opendns.com

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Once you know the IP Scheme usually 192.168.0.XXX set your pc to an ip in that block ie: 192.168.0.200 then use a utility such as Advanced IP Scanner to do a ping of all addresses from 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.254 and it will list all the devices that reply and let you link quickly to there web interface right from the app

Some guys who have orders in on batch 1,2,3 have listed them on ebay might want to check there that's your only choice right now to get them in hand early until he re-opens batch 4 once all batch 1,2,3 orders are filled and shipped which probably wont be for at least a week

Which is the easiest methoid to scan the ip addresses already used ?

Not yet received my 3x units... waiting next week

Correct, provided xxy is not in use on your network already.

Have you already connected to it's default address of 192.168.1.99 for the initial configuration ?

Hello, my net has following specification

IP address 10.217.73.xxx

Subnet mask 255.255.248.0

Gateway 10.217.72.1

Someone can tell me what to do to configure the S3?

Ifwell understood i should connect directly the unit to the PC and set these values:

IP address 10.217.73.xxy

Subnet mask 255.255.248.0 (the same)
Gateway also the same of the PC
DNS primary 8.8.8.8 ?
DNS secondary ?

Am I right? TK

Running about 8.2% under spec after nearly a day, not 7.7%

$comment++;  I've always used 8.8.8.8 on my mining gear with zero problems.  Easy to remember and always up.

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I am also curious on the import fees for Canada & the USA,
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There are no fees in the USA. I don't know about Canada.

I'm interested in how this turns out for you. But since I'm in batch 3, I've got a while to wait before configuring my units...

What pool are you using? From what I can tell the BTCGuild recommendation falls between 256 and 512. But I'm suspicious of guidelines that don't take into account the fact that ASIC units have multiple chips and are not one monolithic unit.

8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are googles DNS. Nearly always up and reliable.

It's quite depressing having a B1 order with tracking saying it'll deliver later than some B2's :-(

I am also curious on the import fees for Canada & the USA,