Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 293. (Read 531298 times)

That one that says you owe duties is not from the package location, so it isn't actually almost at your house.  Look back at the full tracking info Philip posted.  You see the one early in the process where it listed the destination and then said "The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package."  That's what you are seeing.  I am suspecting that they already landed in Anchorage and tracking hasn't been updated yet.

Edit: It is 1:30PM in Anchorage now and my guess is that when the Anchorage scans appear they will have a time stamp prior to this time.

Two of my miners are just a few miles from my house. The 3rd one is in limbo between China and Alaska lol.

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North Logan, UT, US
06/30/2016 2:30 P.M.
The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package.
06/30/2016 6:44 A.M.
The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, CN
06/30/2016 7:26 P.M.
Departure Scan
06/30/2016 6:09 P.M.
Export Scan
Shenzhen, CN
06/29/2016 10:55 P.M.
Arrival Scan
06/29/2016 10:52 P.M.
Departure Scan
06/29/2016 7:52 P.M.
Origin Scan
06/29/2016 4:21 P.M.
Pickup Scan
CN
06/29/2016 10:54 P.M.
Order Processed: Ready for UPS

Yes, I understand. I did not try that yet.

After trying to flash with the new 600Mhz firmware and having it fail, I reset to default settings, then lowered the freq to 587Mhz and it has been running stable for a little over an hour with no crazy readings.
I'll let it run for an hour more and if stable, will try to bump it back to 600Mhz and see what happens.

I'll update and post a screen shot in an hour or so.
Thanks for your assistance. 

Maybe yes.  Just to be very clear you would not disconnect the ribbon cable on the hashboard end, you would disconnect it on the controller board end and then plug it in to the open port on the controller board.  And yes the right side board as viewed from the front.

EDIT: I'm sure you probably understood me correctly I just don't want to be responsible for giving advice that causes someone to do something crazy like running a control ribbon between two ports on the control board and frying a very expensive miner.

I think I see what you are saying on my miner.

Are you saying I should unplug the ribbon cable from the far right board and plug it into the open connector (far right using your orientation)?

I tried to flash with 600Mhz firmware and it error'd out. Said it was a bad file. So I reset.

I will watch it closely for a few and see what it does.

If it goes crazy again, I will try your suggestion.

Thank you.

The HW errors don't look like a problem but that reported hashrate sure does.  You might try swapping where the hash board is connected on the controller board.  My B3 has 4 connectors on the control board so there is an extra and I have seen another post where someone else said theirs did too.  Looking down at the unit from the top with the intake fan pointing towards you (what I would call the front) I believe that bottom chain in the GUI should be the right hand board. 

Hi,
Just put a new S9 batch 3 online.
All was running well for about 25 minutes. Then board 3 4 started throwing lots of HW errors and below is the result. I quickly pulled the power.
I'm using a Bitmain 240 PSU that was running well on an S7. It also had hardware temp issues running on two HP PSU's.

Any ideas?
Don't really want to flash the firmware, but if it's what I have to do, I will.    

I think you are correct. I'm crossing all my fingers for a tomorrow delivery.

You have the same time stamps as me and Philip.  Although I do not have the final "Your package was released by the clearing agency." yet.  My guess is that the clearing agency stuff happened yesterday and wasn't entered into the computer and they are all on the same flight to Alaska which left Shenzhen at 7:26 or so last night (Shenzhen time).  I checked my last S9 tracking and it was about 7 or 8 hours between the time it took off from Shenzhen and landed in Alaska so according to my calculations it should probably show up in Alaska in the next 2 to 3 hours.

After closer inspection my order breaks down as follows.

06/30/2016   7:20 A.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
06/30/2016   6:48 A.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/30/2016   7:26 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/30/2016   6:07 P.M.   Export Scan
Shenzhen, China   06/29/2016   10:55 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/29/2016   10:52 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/29/2016   7:56 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/29/2016   4:21 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/29/2016   10:54 P.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

There is a slim possibility it has left for Alaska.  But it's slim.  Normally we would get a message that it has cleared customs before it leaves.

Now it looks like this 

    06/30/2016    6:48 A.M.    The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China    06/30/2016    7:26 P.M.    Departure Scan
   06/30/2016    6:09 P.M.    Export Scan
Shenzhen, China    06/29/2016    10:55 P.M.    Arrival Scan
   06/29/2016    10:52 P.M.    Departure Scan
   06/29/2016    7:52 P.M.    Origin Scan
   06/29/2016    4:21 P.M.    Pickup Scan
China    06/29/2016    10:54 P.M.    Order Processed: Ready for UPS

So somehow it went back in time and to clearing agency...

Alaska is the point mine got hung up last time.

Yes but minus the clearing agency part:


Looks like we both have the same time on almost all of our scans too.  There is usually another clearing agency notification in Alaska.  That one usually just goes by quickly without any issues, now I wonder if that one is to catch packages that didn't get it done at the point of origin.  Or like I said, maybe they just didn't update it in the tracking but it still happened as usual.

are you like this:

Shenzhen, China   06/30/2016   7:26 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/30/2016   6:07 P.M.   Export Scan
06/29/2016   2:57 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/29/2016   10:55 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/29/2016   10:52 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/29/2016   7:53 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/29/2016   4:21 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/29/2016   10:54 P.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

I tried the new firmware too and saw no improvement for my B3.  However, I took the plunge and installed the low voltage firmware and it helped.  I was getting about 12.6 total hashrate at 587 Freq.  I have one board which just doesn't get up to speed a lot of the time so underclocking it helps.  At 587 I was getting 4150, 4200, 4200 roughly from the boards.  With the low voltage firmware I am running at freq 600 and getting 4150, 4300, 4300 so an improvement of 200 Gh/s (like adding an S1 for free).  Fewer HW errors too.

Meanwhile my batch 4 may have skipped the clearing agency phase; I have never seen that before.  Last notes are an export scan and then a departure scan.  Usually wouldn't see an export scan until after the clearing agency step and that step never happened (or at least it was never noted on the tracking page if it did). 

Status update:

Over 13 days now and no end in sight.

On the plus side, one miner seemed to have a short in the control board due to it not being seated in the chassis properly, it is now up and running.  But the original problem miner has a bad control board and I have been waiting 3 days for a reply about replacing it.  Anyone else have problems with customer service from Quentin?  Since I told them it was the control board, don't you think that 13 days is a bit long to figure that out on Bitmain's end?  It really makes me reconsider doing any further business with them.  I was even willing to PAY for parts instead of going thru this warranty bull, because I knew it would get me up faster and not cost me lost income from having a paperweight on my bench. 

I had nothing but trouble with the new firmware 24th June 2016, so I reverted back to the original firmware 8th June 2016
Board 1 ran with a low hash rate, ~2-3Th/s.
Back to the original firmware and everything is normal.

I have S9 batch 2.
I'm mining at Kano CKPool.

here is my last order that I was charged on:


HOWELL, NJ, US   06/23/2016   3:43 P.M.   Delivered
Lakewood, NJ, United States   06/23/2016   8:16 A.M.   Out For Delivery
06/23/2016   8:10 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Newark, NJ, United States   06/23/2016   6:48 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/23/2016   6:19 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States   06/23/2016   4:27 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/23/2016   3:00 A.M.   Import Scan
06/23/2016   1:51 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Anchorage, AK, United States   06/22/2016   3:59 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   12:59 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/22/2016   10:39 A.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Osaka, Japan   06/22/2016   10:17 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   10:38 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Narita, Japan   06/22/2016   9:26 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   8:33 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China   06/22/2016   3:33 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   1:00 A.M.   Export Scan
Shenzhen, China   06/21/2016   10:15 P.M.   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery. / The package will be forwarded to a UPS facility in the destination city.
Lakewood, NJ, United States   06/21/2016   7:08 A.M.   The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package.
Shenzhen, China   06/21/2016   3:07 P.M.   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery.



06/20/2016   12:44 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/20/2016   11:15 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/20/2016   10:59 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/20/2016   7:38 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/20/2016   5:06 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/20/2016   1:10 A.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS








The bold is normal  after that it went sideways

Here is this new order  so back to the norm or sideways?  I will know soon enough.

   06/29/2016   2:57 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/29/2016   10:55 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/29/2016   10:52 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/29/2016   7:53 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/29/2016   4:21 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/29/2016   10:54 P.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

This is SOP for UPS. It arrives and departs Shenzhen at least twice, often more.  Probably just being transferred back and forth to customs within the same facility.  We should know more in the AM.  But Friday is starting to look doubtful.