ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 79.

mrpark

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Yes, all I did was reboot, and the graph is even still showing 1.52 peak. I wonder if I should try the Jan firmware on it, I am just afraid it might fry the PCI-E like the other guy said. heh. Damn, why did I reboot!

Quote from: pekatete on January 08, 2015, 02:28:53 PM

Quote from: mrpark on January 08, 2015, 02:22:04 PM

I made a huge mistake, I rebooted one of my S3s. Now this is all I get. Can anyone shed some light on what to do? I tried rebooting a few times, it says "Alive" but I get nothing!!......

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Are you sure you just rebooted?
I had a similar screen when I tried to run cgminer 4.6.1 on an S1 but forgot to modify the soft link to point to the new binary. I am not saying that is what you did, but clearly your cgminer is NOT starting .... try doing it manually (first stop then start) via the UI. If that fails, SSH into the rig and type cgminer-api then enter and post here the response you get.

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Quote from: mrpark on January 08, 2015, 02:22:04 PM

I made a huge mistake, I rebooted one of my S3s. Now this is all I get. Can anyone shed some light on what to do? I tried rebooting a few times, it says "Alive" but I get nothing!!......

img

Are you sure you just rebooted?
I had a similar screen when I tried to run cgminer 4.6.1 on an S1 but forgot to modify the soft link to point to the new binary. I am not saying that is what you did, but clearly your cgminer is NOT starting .... try doing it manually (first stop then start) via the UI. If that fails, SSH into the rig and type cgminer-api then enter and post here the response you get.

mrpark

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I made a huge mistake, I rebooted one of my S3s. Now this is all I get. Can anyone shed some light on what to do? I tried rebooting a few times, it says "Alive" but I get nothing!!......

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Quote from: mrpark on January 06, 2015, 04:42:37 PM

OK, I did that and it worked. So what you are telling me, you can't just power up a S3+ miner, you have to go in and reboot it from the web interface. I find it surprising because this is the newest and greatest firmware. Is there a list of bugs somewhere? How is the average miner supposed to know all these things?

Quote from: aclass on January 06, 2015, 09:58:58 AM

This is a bug. Reboot from the web gui and check again

Quote from: mrpark on January 06, 2015, 09:52:40 AM

What does it mean when your S3+ has a normal hash rate like 480 Gh/s, but your average is listed as 18 Gh/s? Going crazy over here...

Quote from: Darthswan on January 05, 2015, 05:24:53 PM

Of the last 3 firmwares, the 12/16 seem to be the best. I know they took it down, but it my early batch S3 up to 500G consistently. I think I will go back to that one. It was better than the 12/19.

it is just a bug where it lost or is using a previous output file due to an unclean reboot... no need to reboot just restart cgminer
/etc/init.d/cgminer restart

Mine do this when there is a power loss...

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Quote from: navigator on January 08, 2015, 11:53:23 AM

One of my B5 or B6? S3's is still running a July 2014 firmware. Working great at 500gh. No reason to flash a new firmware if it's working.

So very true.

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One of my B5 or B6? S3's is still running a July 2014 firmware. Working great at 500gh. No reason to flash a new firmware if it's working.

mrpark

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I am still running on Jan firmware on my S3+, its still running fine at 450Gh/s. I am not planning on messing with it anytime soon since it's finally working after many firmware updates and hours of work.

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Quote from: dogie on January 08, 2015, 09:47:13 AM

HW % is fine, as is anything under a few %. Diff isn't an issue on S3s, and best share has never worked.

There definitely is a correlation between HW % and rejects. Furthermore, rejects reduce shares thus rewards if you are mining on a pool, and if solo mining redue your chances of solving the block even further.

Best share does not work on some pools (e.g ghash) , but works on others (e.g slush), so it is incorrect to say it has never worked, more like it does not work on your pool.

EDIT:
Diff settings can help improve rewards when mining on a pool in the very short run, so it may be fair to say it is not an issue on S3's, but that depends on the pool you are mining on. Some pools take an age to set a var diff thus costing you rewards, while others are quick. Also, intermitent connections can result in the pool setting a low diff that reduces rewards, so there is no harm in setting a minimum diff for the S3 at the onset. In any case, if the pool detects the rig is hashing at a higher diff than you've set, it will adjust it accordingly.
END EDIT:

PS. If you are not sure of the answer, do not clog the thread with waffle.

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Quote from: aarons6 on January 07, 2015, 11:05:37 PM

it might be the fans fault.. ive had case fans in my pc that show up as spinning really fast on the motherboard sensor.. i replaced the fan and the speed shows correct..

also, id set your diff to 512.. and your hwe% is really high.. its causing your rejects to be high.. plus best share of 0 after 5 hours?

you might get more share rate if you set your diff to 512, and lower your speed to the 237.5 setting.

more shares = higher payout

HW % is fine, as is anything under a few %. Diff isn't an issue on S3s, and best share has never worked.

That's also not how it works for shares, everything goes back to calculating at diff 1 otherwise it wouldn't make any sense. If you double the difficulty, you're also going to be doubling the solve time.

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Quote from: aarons6 on January 07, 2015, 11:04:23 PM

Quote from: dogie on January 07, 2015, 08:26:45 PM

Quote from: Antuam on January 07, 2015, 07:45:02 PM

Hi Guys.

Be careful with the last firmware of January. I was update it yesterday in the night and today my S3+ is burn for the expensive voltage.
My Power supply, Corsair HX 1050 is work fine, but 2 of the PCIe connections are burn and the s3 don't mining. It only mining 10 minutes to 450Gh and down the hash to 50Gh more or less.

I had flash to the October firmware but my problem continue same. Any help, please?.

Best regards.
Antuam.

Can you post a picture please? Its very likely going to be an RMA if its under warranty though. PM BitmainWarranty to arrange an RMA. Be sure to link to your post describing the issues, what type and how many miners you wish to have repaired/replaced and your bitmaintech.com order number.

this means that if you are out of warranty to NOT flash newer firmware as they wont help you out?

if the firmware bricks the miners, it should be warranty forever.

Hi Guys.
Yes, I sent an e-mail with a pictures to Yoshi of Bitmaintech, but he don't tell me nothing yet.
My S3 have more of 3 moths ago Embarrassed

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Regards.
Antuam

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Quote from: aarons6 on January 07, 2015, 11:05:37 PM

Quote from: visdude on January 07, 2015, 09:41:46 PM

Quote from: daddyfatsax on January 06, 2015, 04:37:36 PM

Can we get a firmware that actually has the correct fan speed? Out of 11 miners, 6 are wrong.

Hfan Fans
1740   1740 1380
1560   1560 1200
1860   1860 1620
1500   1500 1320
1740   1740 1500
7140   4260 7140
9300   7200 9300
8460   8460 6240
9480   7500 9480
8940   8700 8940
10500 7080 10500

My highest fan speed beats yours: Grin

Kidding aside, I concur. Considering Bitmain's technical accomplishments to date, how hard is it for them to fix this lingering issue?

it might be the fans fault..

ive had case fans in my pc that show up as spinning really fast on the motherboard sensor.. i replaced the fan and the speed shows correct..

also, id set your diff to 512..
and your hwe% is really high.. its causing your rejects to be high.. plus best share of 0 after 5 hours?

you might get more share rate if you set your diff to 512, and lower your speed to the 237.5 setting.

more shares = higher payout

It's possible that the culprit is the fan's sensor itself. However, considering Bitmain's inability to put out a decent S3 firmware since it's introduction in June of last year, it's possible that it could be a firmware issue also.

I've played around with S3 diff settings north and south of 256 but it seems 256 is it (at least for the pool that they were pointed to at the time of the screenshot in August 2014).

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All my units with fan issues are from B4.

Some pools use vardiff, and you don't really need a high diff on a normal pool with S3's. My S3's run between 256 and 512 on most pools. Also some pools do not support the best share value. BTC Guild does not, for example.

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Quote from: visdude on January 07, 2015, 09:41:46 PM

Quote from: daddyfatsax on January 06, 2015, 04:37:36 PM

Can we get a firmware that actually has the correct fan speed? Out of 11 miners, 6 are wrong.

Hfan Fans
1740   1740 1380
1560   1560 1200
1860   1860 1620
1500   1500 1320
1740   1740 1500
7140   4260 7140
9300   7200 9300
8460   8460 6240
9480   7500 9480
8940   8700 8940
10500 7080 10500

My highest fan speed beats yours: Grin

Kidding aside, I concur. Considering Bitmain's technical accomplishments to date, how hard is it for them to fix this lingering issue?

it might be the fans fault..

ive had case fans in my pc that show up as spinning really fast on the motherboard sensor.. i replaced the fan and the speed shows correct..

also, id set your diff to 512..
and your hwe% is really high.. its causing your rejects to be high.. plus best share of 0 after 5 hours?

you might get more share rate if you set your diff to 512, and lower your speed to the 237.5 setting.

more shares = higher payout

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Quote from: dogie on January 07, 2015, 08:26:45 PM

Quote from: Antuam on January 07, 2015, 07:45:02 PM

Hi Guys.

Be careful with the last firmware of January. I was update it yesterday in the night and today my S3+ is burn for the expensive voltage.
My Power supply, Corsair HX 1050 is work fine, but 2 of the PCIe connections are burn and the s3 don't mining. It only mining 10 minutes to 450Gh and down the hash to 50Gh more or less.

I had flash to the October firmware but my problem continue same. Any help, please?.

Best regards.
Antuam.

Can you post a picture please? Its very likely going to be an RMA if its under warranty though. PM BitmainWarranty to arrange an RMA. Be sure to link to your post describing the issues, what type and how many miners you wish to have repaired/replaced and your bitmaintech.com order number.

this means that if you are out of warranty to NOT flash newer firmware as they wont help you out?

if the firmware bricks the miners, it should be warranty forever.

visdude

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Quote from: daddyfatsax on January 06, 2015, 04:37:36 PM

Can we get a firmware that actually has the correct fan speed? Out of 11 miners, 6 are wrong.

Hfan Fans
1740   1740 1380
1560   1560 1200
1860   1860 1620
1500   1500 1320
1740   1740 1500
7140   4260 7140
9300   7200 9300
8460   8460 6240
9480   7500 9480
8940   8700 8940
10500 7080 10500

My highest fan speed beats yours: Grin

Kidding aside, I concur. Considering Bitmain's technical accomplishments to date, how hard is it for them to fix this lingering issue?

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Quote from: visdude on January 07, 2015, 06:29:13 PM

My S3s still got antMiner_S320140826 firmware 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.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8471571

This is by far the best setup. Every firmware release since this one has been fail.

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Quote from: Antuam on January 07, 2015, 07:45:02 PM

Hi Guys.

Be careful with the last firmware of January. I was update it yesterday in the night and today my S3+ is burn for the expensive voltage.
My Power supply, Corsair HX 1050 is work fine, but 2 of the PCIe connections are burn and the s3 don't mining. It only mining 10 minutes to 450Gh and down the hash to 50Gh more or less.

I had flash to the October firmware but my problem continue same. Any help, please?.

Best regards.
Antuam.

Can you post a picture please? Its very likely going to be an RMA if its under warranty though. PM BitmainWarranty to arrange an RMA. Be sure to link to your post describing the issues, what type and how many miners you wish to have repaired/replaced and your bitmaintech.com order number.

Antuam

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Hi Guys.

Be careful with the last firmware of January. I was update it yesterday in the night and today my S3+ is burn for the expensive voltage.
My Power supply, Corsair HX 1050 is work fine, but 2 of the PCIe connections are burn and the s3 don't mining. It only mining 10 minutes to 450Gh and down the hash to 50Gh more or less.

I had flash to the October firmware but my problem continue same. Any help, please?.

Best regards.
Antuam.

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Quote from: dogie on January 07, 2015, 05:01:03 PM

Quote from: daddyfatsax on January 06, 2015, 11:47:07 PM

Quote from: dogie on January 06, 2015, 06:58:13 PM

Quote from: daddyfatsax on January 06, 2015, 04:37:36 PM

Can we get a firmware that actually has the correct fan speed? Out of 11 miners, 6 are wrong.

Hfan Fans
1740   1740 1380
1560   1560 1200
1860   1860 1620
1500   1500 1320
1740   1740 1500
7140   4260 7140
9300   7200 9300
8460   8460 6240
9480   7500 9480
8940   8700 8940
10500 7080 10500

What do you mean? What is that data?

It is the fan data from my S3's pages.

Why are there 3 columns though, that's what I'm asking.

It is from M's ant monitor. The 2nd and 3rd columns are the front and rear fans. I know I do not have 7,8,9, and 10k RPM fans

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Quote from: soy on January 07, 2015, 07:18:54 PM

I have two S3's and if they run long enough one comes up with an "-" and the other an "x". Rebooting doesn't clear these but if I shut down and let sit for a minute then restart both, both come up all"o"'s. Always the same ASIC on each. It can't be temperature as with windows open the room was 42°.

it can be temp if you never pasted them.

when i first got my s3s the first thing i did was tear them down and repaste them, and on one machine 2 chips didnt have any paste.. its like the guy at the factory skipped right over them.

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