Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 228. (Read 531173 times)

my new antminer s9 batch 17 arrived now
but it didn't work!
all boards have red light
and fault & normal didn't light at all
i just get this page


and BMminer Version is blank
not have fan speed control or freq change

what should i do now ?

I got my Antminer S9 batch13 on August 26. and also downloaded the newer 3 files on August 26. (the "s9-20160624-650M.tar.gz" is of course older)
Although the firmware running in the B13 machines is "Mon Jul 11 18:23:27 CST 2016"

Idk if thats true. At least not in my case.  The 12th/s miners they seld me had 12th/s stickers put ontop of 11.83th/s stickers lol. The serial number for both stickers matched as well.

Here's a few links of former firmware.
They were at least downloadable till batch13.
It is highly possible, these files don't work with actual batches, make them useless,destroy them, let'em explode or so.
So any download and/or use at own risk.

schnaldi.myds.me/S9/s9-20160624-650M.tar.gz
schnaldi.myds.me/S9/Antminer-S9-201607131442-11.85T-550M-security.tar.gz
schnaldi.myds.me/S9/Antminer-S9-201607131442-12.92T-600M-security.tar.gz
schnaldi.myds.me/S9/Antminer-S9-201607131440-14T-650M-security.tar.gz

if anyone has an earlier version of the s9 firmware please shoot me a pm. the 2 i have act weird and take 20 minutes just to connect to the pool and only after connecting can i see the cgminer info which seems to be a new version. this batch is running an oct 1st version with cgminer 4.8.13 and bmminer 2.0 and my other s9's are running an older version but they work just fine. i cant download the older versions because they removed them for whatever reason but if someone has the jul 11th version please let me know.

they also did something to the fan speeds which is not allowing the miner to run cool and stable. they changed it to a constant auto fan speed it seems like because the temps of the chips stays at 100 degrees when normally my s9 chip temps are mid 80's. the fan also spins up then down then up then down non stop which cant be too good either. they removed the frequency tabs and i can no longer change the fan speed to a constant number. i never changed the speed on the s9's anyway but at the same time my other s9's dont try auto fan speeding it non stop like this new firmware does....i mean who removes all the updates from their site like that? even i have to say thats retarded. now i have to wait days to get an answer back from them about how to proceed.

if your miner doesnt connect and says "socket connection failed: connection refused" leave it running for a long time and it will usually connect to the pool but after it does you will notice the fan issue i see with this new version.

i should also add that it looks like the new firmware has an auto freq feature that causes huge differences in temps from one board to another. its like its set to get xx amount of hashing power and the firmware adjusts the freq of the boards to reach that speed but the problem with that is one board runs at 71 degrees on the chip (super low) but thats not because its being cooled well...its because the miner lowered the freq of that board down to 400 and change. the board right next to it has a chip temp of 97 degrees and the freq of that board is over 640. it wouldnt be so bad if the boards all performed at the same speeds about but bitmain is using boards that cant go over xx freq with boards that can ready pretty awesome numbers. its almost like its a way to unload under performing boards with other boards that do very well. this might be y it takes 20 minutes to connect to the damn pool because its testing the freq of every board over and over until it finds the one that throws out the least amount of errors then it locks that freq in unlike before where we set the freq manually and all the boards hashed at that freq no matter what the numbers were HW error wise.

i really want my old firmware.....i dont like these temps at all. the auto fan control has the fans running at 30% right now....i wouldnt ever run the fans on my miners that low especially with just high freqs on random boards...

I emailed them about it a few days ago and was told this:


@jstew  I know you we asking for more recent but I have these:

6-24 version of the 600 freq firmware 

low voltage version of 6-22 firmware for 650 freq

I guess the lack of firmware available for download could also be because there exists so many versions of Antminer S9's and firmwares.
So there is a possibility to do something wrong when dealing with firmwares.
I believe you could have the firmware if you simply ask them and tell your miner specifications.
Those who need the firmware, have you been in contact with Bitmain?

im sure somone has firmware laying around , and ur right they did remove the firmware from the website , thats a real assholish thing to do

Does anyone have or know where to find firmware newer than Fri Jun 24 16:25:13 CST 2016?. Apparently Bitmain has removed all firmware versions from the website.

I have a socket not connect error and no hashing on one s9

I know DHL is suppose to be the great international shipper, but I had issues the one time I used them too.
I always use UPS and they rarely have a problem.

Although - to your point about missing something.  I also noticed an issue on this shipment.

-A valid ID # (tax, personal, deferment) required for clearance is missing. We're working to obtain this information.

But the miners are already in Anchorage.  So what ever it was they fixed it quick.

Hmm, interesting, DHL has good service here in Europe. Is this delay a regular feature while using DHL? I might try UPS next time then.

Dhl seems to have more custom issues then ups or fedex.

I ordered 1x B17 yesterday using DHL.

I get the following message
A DHL representative shall attempt to contact the importer for further clarification or proof of valuation if required by Customs.

Are others using DHL getting this message when tracking their order?

    wow crazy..glad ordered b17 yesterday. i even didnt see any stock on b16 yesterday. i thought only b17 up for sale...

I hope they do come back up for sale I'm hoping to get one if I mine enough on my current setup 

Ja. Glad I ordered my (probably last) s9 yesterday. This will make 8 of them and hopefully it will be as good as most of my others have been. It already started shipping so should show up Thurs or Fri methinks.
Too bad the R4 never came up for sale -- I'd rather have gotten 2 of those for space heating use...

Batch 16 & 17 Sold Out already.

https://www.bitmaintech.com/

I'll let you know about speed in a week or so.  So far (knocking on my wooden desk) I have not had any reliability issues with S9's.  But I only have 5. 
I had one bad board with the S7's and that was a warranty cluster.  Any issues with these and I'm paying the extra $ to send it to Yoshi at BW(still knocking).

Yes but the resale value of an R4 is probably not as good as the S9. Also with the S9 I can run one board at a time and keep two as spares (due to limited amount of power I can use). But the noise is the factor. Hence why I asked if anyone has turned the fans down at all and what the volume is like.

Noise is not quiet!!  Quiet Miner be R4