Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 63. (Read 710164 times)

If you see any firmware bugs, or issues.  Please PM us!!!

Unfortunately, Bugs will continue to exist  


P.S: Some may experience it and some may never see it in bug mode...  Bad experience could be the firmware caused or could be the hashing environment caused, or simply weird condition that we may never know. (But... But... But... We want to know about it)

There is no guarantee that all reported bugs will be fixed but each report will be carefully looked at.

So I have 3 S3 units. I bought one and it hashed for a week and the control card died. Now it sems the other 2 have also died. Yes. I have done all the usual. Updated, reset, etc. Got about a month out of each unit.
Unfortunately I bought these from minersource who now appears to be gone as their website is gone. So I can't get the original shipping info or purchase order info for warranty. Such as it is.
I would have atleast expected your products to be more durable than a month in hashing time. After some research it apears to have become a common problem with your gear that the control boards fail prematurely by a bunch. Sadly I am being told that unless under warranty the parts to fix are not available. SO after not quite a month out o each miner I am dead in the water and burnt it seems. Sad just plan sad.
Well guess I will try the spondoolies out to see if they are any better. First one is going to be an sp20 unit.
By the way. the BtcGarden unit I own has literally ran circles around the s3 units as far as stability and realiability goes. Wish they would come back.
Well hope this bit of info can help save others from the pain of wasting money on low grade gear.

Dogie is just one arrogant over sized waffle brain !

I agree with your thoughts that's how us engineers also get things done that's why we have testing labs I am the same way less lip talk and more proof !

I have a feeling the poor performance became the bigger issue and that fell to the wayside and was never fixed/implemented.

Is there a firmware out there that "for sure" disables the alarm altogether when the pool connections/internet drops ?

I'm about to deploy a few S3's offsite, and need to know if I should remove the covering, physically cover the speaker, then reaffix the covering in order to ensure "quiet" operation prior to delivery and setup.

Every S3 firmware I have flashed still causes the alarm bell to sound when the connection drops out entirely

I have reset the router and still nothing

is it possible to SSH into the S3+ miner and see the cgminer program? Which shows all the accepted shares, hash rates, etc just like when GPU mining?

Hello, I am having this problem now and I have tried to update cgminer but cgminer it is already  4.6.1 so, do you guys know what could be the problem here?

EDIT: the problem is on Miner configuration and the software version is antMiner_S320141013.bin

 if everything was setup the same as it was, then its your internet that is still not working correctly.

all you needed to do was reboot the router, and the machines to get them working again.

Hey I'm new to this site and am not really sure if this is the place to post this but, all four of my antminer s3 units have stopped hashing.  I had my internet turned off and then I payed the bill the next day and now none of them work.  I have updated the IP address since that has changed and am still not getting any hashing.  I have checked all my network info many times and cannot find an error anywhere.  I even tried a factory reset on two of them and still nothing!!!!  Firmware rollbacks and even the latest firmware.  Nothing This is driving me mad here.  Any help would be much appreciated.  Please contact me if you can to help

I thought that this S3 firmware debacle would end at some point in time.  I was obviously wrong.  This has gone far too long and it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that the buck stops at Bitmain for still failing to produce a decent firmware for the S3s to date.

Having said that, my S3s still got the stock antMiner_S320140826 firmware (one of the early bad ones with all the security issues) with ckolivas' antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908 fix and have been hashing around 490 GH/s at 243.75M since then.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Just to throw my 2 cents in on all the firmware bickering that's been going on.  I've tried both 10.24 and 12.19 on my S3 and S3+ rigs (solely for the cgminer update).  Ended up going back to the 10.24 image on all of them because some (not all) would loose hash over time.  Don't want to get in a fight with anyone about it but something other than the "reset" fix was in that image.  Since my rigs are all stable now, I'm not risking another botched upgrade.  To echo many previous sentiments - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Got a chip down and need to take the blade & heat sync off and regrease it up again but can anyone quickly tell me which blade one I'm looking for?  Asic Status is telling me this:

00000000  00000000
00000000  000-0000

Thanks!

In my experience the 01-09 is Crap Firmware. Things were so bad I may not have waited long enough to prove with data 10-24 works better. So, I will.


To further Pekatete's assertions regarding firmware...
Take a look at his overclocking threads and if you want, look through his post history.
If I was unable to roll back and forth between firmware revisions and test on my own I would still give a ton of credibility from his documented test results alone.

I am not saying I don't use dogie's information. I place people in context and use them for their strengths based in my experience.
pekatete knows more about the S3 firmware than probably anyone currently posting, and if someone else claims to be a better authority they should compliment their claims with the who, why, when, and how to back it up.
Model, hashrates over time, temps, frequencies, voltages, etc
That is for anyone making claims about this or that firmware, tell me all the details.

Dogie is a subcontractor for bitmain to provide support to customers on this forum. Dogie knows things and has provided great guides for n00bz which also includes reference material for everyone. While technically not an employee, him being a sub does suggest access to engineering information, or at least knowing who to ask the right questions but again, the same matters to me, employee or not, how did you arrive at the claim you make regarding S3 firmware?  To me, the reset button issue alone is not enough of a reason to upgrade. I experienced other issues. I see effects in work submitted in my own testing between those versions. I did not simply test one unit for a couple of hours. I ran several days with multiple units. I plan to do so again, and include the latest build from 01-09 in the tests. I will run each firmware version, 10-24, 12-19, and 01-09 for x amount of time on each S3. My mix of units spans from old S3 batches to much newer S3+.

I enjoy this type of process and if there is other information anyone wants just ask. While I have not been here long I have been doing things such as this for a long time, and appreciate any input from anyone, but most value the input with explanations of how someone arrives there.

you I have tried the latest firmware, but makes tons of mistakes

For MY s3 the best firmware is 10/24 it is the one that gets me higher hashrates and the most stable. And yes, I know about the not working reset button and I really don't care about it... If anything goes wrong I can always flash it by serial/jtag...


Yes it sucks... Isn't stable at all...

Has anyone else tried this antMiner_S320150109.bin?

the latest firmware 9.1.2015 has a ton of errors HW, it is true that for more hash for too many mistakes, and seeing the site bitmain think it is no longer updated, and just my guess

the reason they scrapped this firmware is because the newer one soon after removed the voltage adjustment.

on my s3s, the 10/24 and the 12/19 have identical results, they both are really stable, low HWE and no reboots or X's.. the newer one on their website 1/9/2015 has a ton of HWE and i get random X's and reboots..

i do believe my s3s are the ones that dont have auto adjusted voltage.