ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 103.

Tim.Shao19

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can you please let me know how many s4 you have in hand and how many of these miners arise with this chip issues?
How long will the O‘s last each time after you reset the X's on the chips and Xs show up again? please contact my email address [email protected]. And i will be incontact with our engineers and tech guys to find a solution for you.

Quote from: pikachuy on November 04, 2014, 02:28:10 PM

How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

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Quote from: pikachuy on November 05, 2014, 05:05:56 PM

Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 04:41:48 PM

Quote from: pikachuy on November 05, 2014, 04:20:22 PM

Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 03:08:31 PM

Wish I had good news… I'm on the phone with UPS … I just got a bill in the mail for UPS shipping fees associated with my PSU replacements … Let me say that again, I'm being charged for Bitmains defective replacement part being shipped to me.

What country are you from that they are charging you for shipping?

I'm from the US in Atlanta . After working the phones for an hour I convinced UPS to eat the cost . Just sucks because I know some people will just pay the bill …

Care to share what you say or how you convinced them to pay for it or go after Bitmain for the cost? Since it's Bitmain's fault and we are just victims...

Basically it is as I have stated in past posts . There is a customs rule, "can't remember the number of the rule" , but it states that there is no fees on things that are marked "warranty parts".. In all due fairness it is more of a UPS error then Bitmain, but it just adds to the hassle I've delt with in regards to all my S4 units … I wanted to buy another one but at this point I'm just to beat down by the whole process… and cost

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Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 04:41:48 PM

Quote from: pikachuy on November 05, 2014, 04:20:22 PM

Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 03:08:31 PM

Wish I had good news… I'm on the phone with UPS … I just got a bill in the mail for UPS shipping fees associated with my PSU replacements … Let me say that again, I'm being charged for Bitmains defective replacement part being shipped to me.

What country are you from that they are charging you for shipping?

I'm from the US in Atlanta . After working the phones for an hour I convinced UPS to eat the cost . Just sucks because I know some people will just pay the bill …

Care to share what you say or how you convinced them to pay for it or go after Bitmain for the cost? Since it's Bitmain's fault and we are just victims...

dlowings

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Quote from: pikachuy on November 05, 2014, 04:20:22 PM

Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 03:08:31 PM

Wish I had good news… I'm on the phone with UPS … I just got a bill in the mail for UPS shipping fees associated with my PSU replacements … Let me say that again, I'm being charged for Bitmains defective replacement part being shipped to me.

What country are you from that they are charging you for shipping?

I'm from the US in Atlanta . After working the phones for an hour I convinced UPS to eat the cost . Just sucks because I know some people will just pay the bill …

pikachuy

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Quote from: dlowings on November 05, 2014, 03:08:31 PM

Wish I had good news… I'm on the phone with UPS … I just got a bill in the mail for UPS shipping fees associated with my PSU replacements … Let me say that again, I'm being charged for Bitmains defective replacement part being shipped to me.

What country are you from that they are charging you for shipping?

Tupsu

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Quote from: dogie on November 05, 2014, 09:36:15 AM

Has anyone checked the behaviour if you tape down that button? Then additionally during a mains power cycle? I would but I'm away from my unit at the moment.

You really do not know? Press the button and hold. PSU turns off.

dlowings

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Wish I had good news… I'm on the phone with UPS … I just got a bill in the mail for UPS shipping fees associated with my PSU replacements … Let me say that again, I'm being charged for Bitmains defective replacement part being shipped to me.

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Quote from: thomas_s on November 05, 2014, 08:24:07 AM

Quote from: Tupsu on November 05, 2014, 07:32:07 AM

Quote from: thomas_s on November 05, 2014, 07:25:16 AM

A Wifi plug should be able to allow power flow while "on" and stop power from the outlet when "off", it would have the same effect as unplugging / plugging the unit back in.

It does not help. You need to press the button.

My mistake, not the best feature to have a button during large scale deployments if you want to be able to remotely cycle units.

Has anyone checked the behaviour if you tape down that button? Then additionally during a mains power cycle? I would but I'm away from my unit at the moment.

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Quote from: Tupsu on November 05, 2014, 07:32:07 AM

Quote from: thomas_s on November 05, 2014, 07:25:16 AM

A Wifi plug should be able to allow power flow while "on" and stop power from the outlet when "off", it would have the same effect as unplugging / plugging the unit back in.

It does not help. You need to press the button.

My mistake, not the best feature to have a button during large scale deployments if you want to be able to remotely cycle units.

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Quote from: thomas_s on November 05, 2014, 07:25:16 AM

A Wifi plug should be able to allow power flow while "on" and stop power from the outlet when "off", it would have the same effect as unplugging / plugging the unit back in.

It does not help. You need to press the button.

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Quote from: pikachuy on November 05, 2014, 06:34:37 AM

Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on November 05, 2014, 05:10:51 AM

Quote from: TracerX on November 04, 2014, 04:05:20 PM

Quote from: pikachuy on November 04, 2014, 02:28:10 PM

How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

I've spent some time thinking this through, and haven't come up with a great solution. "shutdown -h now" won't clear the x's, the only thing I've found is killing the power at the PSU and bringing it back up, which is difficult to pull off without being in the DC.

Maybe someone know a trick we don't?

As a general any ASIC mining chip can only be fully reset by cycling the power off/on. To remotely cycle power get something like this http://www.wifiplug.co.uk/

The issue with that is that the S4 machine doesn't autopower-on on a powerloss, so even if we can power it off the switch remotely, it won't power back on, on it's own, unless someone knows how to fix that...

A Wifi plug should be able to allow power flow while "on" and stop power from the outlet when "off", it would have the same effect as unplugging / plugging the unit back in.

pikachuy

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Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on November 05, 2014, 05:10:51 AM

Quote from: TracerX on November 04, 2014, 04:05:20 PM

Quote from: pikachuy on November 04, 2014, 02:28:10 PM

How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

I've spent some time thinking this through, and haven't come up with a great solution. "shutdown -h now" won't clear the x's, the only thing I've found is killing the power at the PSU and bringing it back up, which is difficult to pull off without being in the DC.

Maybe someone know a trick we don't?

As a general any ASIC mining chip can only be fully reset by cycling the power off/on. To remotely cycle power get something like this http://www.wifiplug.co.uk/

The issue with that is that the S4 machine doesn't autopower-on on a powerloss, so even if we can power it off the switch remotely, it won't power back on, on it's own, unless someone knows how to fix that...

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Quote from: TracerX on November 04, 2014, 04:05:20 PM

Quote from: pikachuy on November 04, 2014, 02:28:10 PM

How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

I've spent some time thinking this through, and haven't come up with a great solution. "shutdown -h now" won't clear the x's, the only thing I've found is killing the power at the PSU and bringing it back up, which is difficult to pull off without being in the DC.

Maybe someone know a trick we don't?

As a general any ASIC mining chip can only be fully reset by cycling the power off/on. To remotely cycle power get something like this http://www.wifiplug.co.uk/

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Christian Antkow

Quote from: neo9436 on October 31, 2014, 03:17:05 PM

Quote from: dkaufman on October 31, 2014, 02:07:20 PM

That's a nice little unit at a nice price, but I'd need quite a few of them! 1200 watts is enough for two (but not quote 3) Antminer S-3's, but not quite enough for an S4...

* dkaufman is googling a bigger one right now..

Don't the S3's draw 355W? You should be able to fit 3 on one of these little guys?

Yep. I run three S3's on a single Corsair AX-1200 no problem. Loves those power supplies.

Minnesooooota

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hi what pools are you guys using with success for the S4? ghash?

edgar

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Good Luck All!!

After 5 months of lies and empty/broken promises, Bitmain has finally asked for my wallet address and has agreed to pay up the compensation owed.

Once this is paid i will bow out of Bitmain threads indefinitely.

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Quote from: captjrc on November 04, 2014, 04:03:30 PM

Here is what it looks like:

Connecting to ck.kolivas.org (193.19.136.183:80)
index.html 100% |**************************| 768 0:00:00 ETA
root@beaglebone:~# mv /usr/bin/cgminer usr/bin/cgminer.bak
root@beaglebone:~# chmod +x cgminer
chmod: cgminer: No such file or directory
root@beaglebone:~#

Any ideas???

You are downloading index.html instead of cgminer. I just tried wget myself, it fetched cgminer correctly for me. Make sure you're running the wget command with the correct URL. Are you behind a proxy server by any chance?

wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s4/4.6.1-141018/cgminer

Edit: if you can't get it to work download the file to your computer and use scp (WinSCP if Windows) to copy it to the Ant.

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Quote from: pikachuy on November 04, 2014, 02:28:10 PM

How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

I've spent some time thinking this through, and haven't come up with a great solution. "shutdown -h now" won't clear the x's, the only thing I've found is killing the power at the PSU and bringing it back up, which is difficult to pull off without being in the DC.

Maybe someone know a trick we don't?

captjrc

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Quote from: suchmoon on November 04, 2014, 01:42:12 PM

Quote from: captjrc on November 04, 2014, 01:07:51 PM

When I tried to follow the directions below to update my S4, when I enter "chmod +x cgminer" I get "chmod: cgminer: No such file or directory.
What do I need to do to correct this so I can finish with the update?
Thanks in advance for all the help!

Did wget succeed?

Try doing wget line again and make sure it downloads the file.

Check where you are and what files you have:

pwd
ls -al

Here is what it looks like:

Connecting to ck.kolivas.org (193.19.136.183:80)
index.html 100% |**************************| 768 0:00:00 ETA
root@beaglebone:~# mv /usr/bin/cgminer usr/bin/cgminer.bak
root@beaglebone:~# chmod +x cgminer
chmod: cgminer: No such file or directory
root@beaglebone:~#

Any ideas???

pikachuy

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How do we do something like a power cycle to reset the O's and X's on the chips through SSH?

For example, sometimes I see X's on the chips and when I reboot through the GUI, it doesn't get corrected. It's only when I manually do a power cycle by powering it off and on from the power button is when all the chips turn back to O's on the status page.

The reason I am asking is because sometimes I get X's and i reboot it from the GUI remotely through a VPN and it doesn't get fixed. I don't want to have to keep going there and manually power cycle it every time because my S4 is located about an hour away and it's a hassle =(.

Any ideas?

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