Topic: ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 63. (Read 301481 times)

i think about this method after i use swift   the next miner i will pay with btc ,i promise

I have purchased a number of units from them with swift transfers, they have always been good about it.... Suggest you email them with the swift details and your order number so they can match them.

It's fast to pay with BTC. It's show paid after an hour if you have paid with BTC. If you don't have any BTC, you should buy it at the exchange and make all transaction in BTC.

After I reset to factory setting and set difficulty to 2048. 225 Mhz 0725 volts, I too am hashing at least 2200. It's very stable so far for past 24 hours. Thanks for the info. 

i'm order 1 s4 antminer on dec,17th and go to bank to transfer money(swift) on dec,18th , now is dec,20th my order on the web show status: expire. if bitmain receive the  payment. will it ok for me?

TIL

But he's not human... though I have to speak up for him. He has been very helpful to me.

humans can make mistakes 

I got my S4s today.

I was dismayed to find they showed 127.0.0.1 on the displays and did not respond to the address they were "Supposed" to be at, 192.168.1.99.

Fortunately I found they probably have DHCP on, and I was able to configure them way. 

BTW Dogie, your "how to" guide for S4s says S3 at least once.

M

I would agree.  Especially if high wind turbulence were met along the way in the air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIpwuN3cDXY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UO-wYpNN0s

If you imagine the vibration / impacts needed to dislodge an SD card from its slot, it gives you an idea what happens during shipping. And that no Bitmain made components get damaged, only very rarely a 3rd party PSU.

I think what I'll do is get a new card and get the base image on it first, then I'll try ejecting the current card and putting it back in. That way if something goes wrong I won't have a lot of downtime.

Thanks again for the help, I do remember talk with someone else about this earlier in the thread. I'll have to do some digging.

It's not hard.  Just have to find the steps.  They are around here somewhere.  First download "Win32 Disk Imager", assuming you have a Windows PC to use.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/  And then find the image file.  Search the forum for that.  The image file is not the same as the firmware upgrade files.

Also, if you haven't ejected the memory card and put it back in, try that first.  I haven't read the whole thread to see if you've done that.

Thanks. Is putting the base image on the new card difficult to do? Getting into bitcoin mining sure has given me a crash course in a bunch of stuff I never knew I'd be learning about. 

I would try a different Micro SD memory card.  First, you will have to put the base image on the new card.

Okay so I finally got around to trying to upgrade the firmware on my S4. I've downloaded the initramfs.bin.SD-20141016.tar.gz file, and hit flash. I see that it uploads to 100%, but then after that, my connection times out and the miner does a factory reset.

I re-downloaded the file and tried numerous times, same result every time. Anyone else have this issue, or have any suggestions?

Although I had no problems with my equipment, other than having to eject and re-insert a MicroSD card in one of my S4's and one bad PSIe port in 1 of 18 S3's, I have been pleased personally with BITMAIN rigs.

It may be that is the problem with the gentleman's 3 to 5 S4's that went blank on the LCD screen [Needing to eject and re-insert MicroSD card] due to shipping.  He may not be familiar with the MicroSD card possibly being an issue and needs to do what you previously mentioned.  I suppose that could occur from moving the boxes around in a rough manner during shipping.  Your packaging and protecting the equipment is outstanding I will admit!

I appreciate you coming on here to back your product and support to give assurance you are behind resolving any problems that may occur with equipment during the shipping process. Don't think I was out to give BITMAIN a bad name.  It's just I have high hopes of mining with at least 180 Th/s of BITMAIN equipment in the future.  Certainly by August or September next year.  I'm buying another $8,000.00 in BITMAIN rigs the last week in February or first week in March.

I'm just thankful to hear you will do what is ethical in resolving issues that may arise due to DOA's or dead boards giving "xxxxxx xxxxxx" on arrival.

Thanks again for your reply and reassurance!

Best Regards,

Bitmain is guilty of pre-sales and some would argue their gear is overpriced.

Like the $425,000 "sale" for 1 PH/s of hosted power, plus electricity.

M

Each miner goes though rigorous quality control by QA staffs multiple times.  Sometimes the air turbulence during the air freight may cause damages to the miner as we use International Express via Air to deliver miners to the end customers.

Please PM here or contact +1-844-248-6246 Option 2 to request the replacement parts sent to you.  Please prepare the original order confirmation page to submit to the techs on the phone or in PM.

PS: some are beyond our control, however, we do not point finger at UPS and say, UPS's problem deal with them, but, rather, when we are notified, we will handle the DOA RMA process as fast as we can.

@techgeeks
If you have a blank LCD screen during the bootup, then more than likely the loose contact MicroSD card, or currupted MicroSD card or damaged MicroSD card.  Please try to reseat the microSD card, if that doesn't work, please try to reimage the MicroSD card from the image available at http://www.bitmaintech.com

Thank you

All companies have some issue, I am a HUGE Bitmain fan though, I have over 80 S3 a couple S2 and now 16 S4s running.  Never an issue with the S3's, couple small things with S2, but the S4's I am hoping is just the SD card reseat - they emailed me to try that out.

Other Bitcoin tech companies have a much more checkered past, with pre-sales, and over pricing to the extent you can't ROI on the gear.  Keep going Bitmain, and I'll keep buying.