ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 135.

StormTheFront

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Quote from: abshnasko on October 05, 2014, 05:26:10 PM

My antminer s4 is also not working on eligius or ghash, but it's reporting in its own control panel that it's mining at 2000+ gh/s. What is the deal?

Use BTCguild for best results I am finding. Ghash works too.

Whatever pool that you choose, be sure to set difficulty manually to 2048 Wink

MyRig

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Ghash and Eligius pool computability issues are being looked at and worked by the engineers at the moment. Mean time, there is an updated firmware for S4.

Just to keep all of you guys safer, the e-mailed version's MD5 is...

MD5: 506A7AEACC0FF853A351AC3B20ABB1AF

Can test the MD5 after download by using one of the free software.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickhash/?source=typ_redirect

Mean wile, if none of these will resolve your issue, please open an account at BTCGUILD.COM and tempoary hash there to avoid any lost mining time. Engineers are working to resolve the issues.

Thank you!

Quote from: Prelude on October 05, 2014, 12:57:02 AM

Guys, here is the new fixed firmware. Bitmain emailed it to me as their engineer isn't avilable to upload it to their website yet.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24462711/initramfs.bin.SD-20141003-1.tar.gz

Enjoy!

Quote from: abshnasko on October 05, 2014, 05:26:10 PM

My antminer s4 is also not working on eligius or ghash, but it's reporting in its own control panel that it's mining at 2000+ gh/s. What is the deal?

abshnasko

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My antminer s4 is also not working on eligius or ghash, but it's reporting in its own control panel that it's mining at 2000+ gh/s. What is the deal?

IYFTech

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WANTED: Active dev to fix & re-write p2pool in C

Look forward to seeing the results Wink

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@IYFTech

One of the techs will try to connect to your pool for 10 minutes shortly.

Quote from: IYFTech on October 05, 2014, 03:32:25 PM

Quote from: MyRig on October 04, 2014, 02:34:22 AM

P2pool works. Cheesy

Pools were selected from http://p2pool-nodes.info/

If there is a specific pool, you want a try, please let me know!

A screen of an S4 connected to a local node for one minute is hardly proof that it "works" - it's just proof that it's connected. You said the S2 "works" with p2pool also - but it doesn't, not efficiently anyway. Can you post some stats please? Better still, point one at my node for 10 minutes & we can see for sure:

stratum+tcp://iyftech.zapto.org:9332

Thanks.

ChuckBuck

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better everyday ♥

Wow was so tempted to get at least 1 or 2 units of the S4 just for the heck of it, but looks like I dodged a bullet with Batch 1.

I'm sure Bitmain will iron out these QA issues by either next batch or batch 3 or 4.

manitu

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I have 2/10 defective PSU. First immediately after first start and second after two days running. Very bad first batch of S4 ! Angry

IYFTech

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Quote from: MyRig on October 04, 2014, 02:34:22 AM

P2pool works. Cheesy

Pools were selected from http://p2pool-nodes.info/

If there is a specific pool, you want a try, please let me know!

Quote from: PatMan on October 03, 2014, 10:26:42 PM

Quote from: BITMAIN on October 03, 2014, 10:58:55 AM

Replied questions:

1. S4 is compatible with p2pool?
Yes

Can anyone confirm this? Anyone tried?

A screen of an S4 connected to a local node for one minute is hardly proof that it "works" - it's just proof that it's connected. You said the S2 "works" with p2pool also - but it doesn't, not efficiently anyway. Can you post some stats please? Better still, point one at my node for 10 minutes & we can see for sure:

stratum+tcp://iyftech.zapto.org:9332

Thanks.

StormTheFront

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Quote from: GWilkiejr on October 05, 2014, 12:44:52 PM

Oh yea... and one more thing... When I go to flash the S4 Firmware I get this:

"tar: invalid magic tar: short read cp: can't stat '*': No such file or directory"

What is the deal? Huh

Might be a reading thing Undecided

This link has only been posted about a dozen times in the past day in this thread.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24462711/initramfs.bin.SD-20141003-1.tar.gz

5 of 33 units not functioning is no laughing matter, but if you missed that link easily enough then maybe you should RTFM and see if you are doing something wrong Sad

Contact the user BitmainWarranty via PM, and try calling their support line too.
They will help you.

Can't help but imagine you must be doing something terribly wrong to get those results. Still not sure how you missed nearly 3 pages of instruction in this thread regarding the firmware upgrade.

Quote from: MyRig on October 05, 2014, 04:23:54 AM

Just to keep all of you guys safer, the e-mailed version's MD5 is...

MD5: 506A7AEACC0FF853A351AC3B20ABB1AF

Can test the MD5 after download by using one of the free software.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickhash/?source=typ_redirect

Quote from: Prelude on October 05, 2014, 12:57:02 AM

Guys, here is the new fixed firmware. Bitmain emailed it to me as their engineer isn't avilable to upload it to their website yet.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24462711/initramfs.bin.SD-20141003-1.tar.gz

Enjoy!

GWilkiejr

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Oh yea... and one more thing... When I go to flash the S4 Firmware I get this:

"tar: invalid magic tar: short read cp: can't stat '*': No such file or directory"

What is the deal? Huh

GWilkiejr

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Ok - this is the worst batch of product I have ever gotten from Bitmain. What is going on?? So far I have had 3 units with bad PSU's. (One of them almost caught on fire) All of my settings are factory stock. NO overclocking. One of the units has the amber "alarm" light on the PSU blinking and one unit has what appears to be asci code on the LCD. So of 33 units purchased 5 are down. That's 15 % of my units not running within a few days of implementation. Bitmain I hope you're reading this and thinking of a resolution......

MyRig

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only for s4. Please wait for s3 and s2 update.

Quote from: jelin1984 on October 05, 2014, 10:24:31 AM

these software is ok for s3 or onoly s4?

jelin1984

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these software is ok for s3 or onoly s4?

Prelude

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Use this firmware, the one posted on bitmaintech.com will not flash as it has a bug in its packaging. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24462711/initramfs.bin.SD-20141003-1.tar.gz

Prelude

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I'd say it is also. Try the new firmware, and if that doesn't help increase the voltage in 0005 increments and or decrease speed. Request an RMA if the new firmware doesn't work properly at stock settings.

manitu

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Quote from: Prelude on October 05, 2014, 06:39:16 AM

Quote from: manitu on October 05, 2014, 05:58:17 AM

Quote from: manitu on October 04, 2014, 10:44:42 AM

Hi Bitmain

when I started the device everything seems to be okay. But after 4 minutes a lot of (x) appeared in ASIC status. When I do power cycle the situation is after 4 minutes the some. What should I do? Sad

http://s28.postimg.org/uj41xpf2h/image.jpg

Wow, this device has very short live with default settings. After 3 hours of running many chips crash. Really bad quality of the products. I hope that bitmain will send me a new device instead of this one!!!

http://s11.postimg.org/52nvd5gbz/S4_after.jpg

Definately something wrong there. Is your voltage set to 0725? Have you tried flashing the new firmware?

Yes, voltage on 0,725V. I am sure that this device is broken. Firmware is original.

Prelude

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Quote from: manitu on October 05, 2014, 05:58:17 AM

Quote from: manitu on October 04, 2014, 10:44:42 AM

Hi Bitmain

when I started the device everything seems to be okay. But after 4 minutes a lot of (x) appeared in ASIC status. When I do power cycle the situation is after 4 minutes the some. What should I do? Sad

Wow, this device has very short live with default settings. After 3 hours of running many chips crash. Really bad quality of the products. I hope that bitmain will send me a new device instead of this one!!!

Definately something wrong there. Is your voltage set to 0725? Have you tried flashing the new firmware?

manitu

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Quote from: manitu on October 04, 2014, 10:44:42 AM

Hi Bitmain

when I started the device everything seems to be okay. But after 4 minutes a lot of (x) appeared in ASIC status. When I do power cycle the situation is after 4 minutes the some. What should I do? Sad

http://s28.postimg.org/uj41xpf2h/image.jpg

Wow, this device has very short live with default settings. After 3 hours of running many chips crash. Really bad quality of the products. I hope that bitmain will send me a new device instead of this one!!!

http://s11.postimg.org/52nvd5gbz/S4_after.jpg

MyRig

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BTCGUILD.COM does claim 100% uptime on their servers (Private Servers) and compatible with different miners.

Quote from: unrealistic on October 05, 2014, 04:55:46 AM

It seems that btcguild is really better than other pools.

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It seems that btcguild is really better than other pools.

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