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Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S4 Setup [HD] - page 12. (Read 49614 times)

legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
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None of what you've described is any excuse for your attitude whatsoever. Fixed 1 link and 1 number.
Let's hope that's not Bitmain being not happy about a Q&D copy paste that not enough effort was spent on it to check it was accurate ...
newbie
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Hi Dogie - As usual another excellent guide  Grin

I discovered your guides whilst setting my my S3's which I now have 30.

Just started with my first S4 - All went 100% smoothly.

Thanks Again for such a great resource that does what it says on the Tin!

Cheers.

New user, registered today, one post - this one.

Oh dear - it is a very sad day when bitmain/dogie have resort to using fake accounts in a pathetic effort to make this piece of junk look good.....

Copy/pasting guides is bad enough bitmain/dogie, but this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel...... Roll Eyes

You are very wrong my friend (In the most loose sense of the term) on what you have just said - What's sad is you have nothing better to do then flame someone who is doing a good Job with these guides - What are you adding to the community?  Its fine to pick holes however I suspect you have no forum where people look for guidance.  If you do not like what is posted why do you not just reside somewhere else? So this is going to be one of my first posts of many. 
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
Thanks for the setup guide Dogie, really do appreciate what you do Grin

Will you be going into any detail on the 'Miner Advanced Configuration' settings, the bit with the frequency and voltage. If its safe to mess around with it, and what it does?

Thanks again.

Not at the moment, no. Its for over/underclocking and at the moment there is only room for one frequency step up before the PSU is the limiting factor. You also need a small voltage bump up to maintain that speed.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
Hi Dogie - As usual another excellent guide  Grin

I discovered your guides whilst setting my my S3's which I now have 30.

Just started with my first S4 - All went 100% smoothly.

Thanks Again for such a great resource that does what it says on the Tin!

Cheers.

New user, registered today, one post - this one.

Oh dear - it is a very sad day when bitmain/dogie have resort to using fake accounts in a pathetic effort to make this piece of junk look good.....

Copy/pasting guides is bad enough bitmain/dogie, but this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel...... Roll Eyes

Post in scam accusations, request admins compare some IPs. I think you'll also find that most of Bitmain doesn't have english that good, and that they sell 10,000s of units - most of which go to users who are NOT on the forums. I have one account, this one.
legendary
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There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.

Most of this is a copy paste of the S3 guide, where do I start....there is so many things wrong with it. You even posted "Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.99 - this goes to the S3's configuration page.", half of the things under the troubleshooting section are wrong as well.

Maybe because two miners using exactly the same architecture will have a very similar setup? So far you've found one character wrong, anything else? Still not sure why you're coming into this so aggressively... would you rather there be no resource at all or would you rather make your own thread?

Actually the S4 is is many ways much more similar to the S2 because of the beagleboard. Guess ill list off some stuff since you don't even see it. I have more a problem with there being wrong information than merely incomplete information. I see you fixed SSH username/password one but there are still others.
Problems:
Bitmain firmware updates are no longer released on their github, they are now on the bitmaintech.com support section, the github was last updated on April 13th as you can see.
Upgrading the firmware can help with x's over chips as well, x's don't necessarily mean its dead on S4 due to issues with the first firmware release.
The difficulty issue affects pools that start on a diff of 1 and then slowly ramp up, if the pool starts on a diff of 1 and ramps up in a few seconds there is not an issue, variable difficulty itself is not the issue, ramping up from low difficulty is.
A single faulty chip should not affect it by ~3%, it should be under 1% since there are 160 chips on a S4.

None of what you've described is any excuse for your attitude whatsoever. Fixed 1 link and 1 number.
newbie
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Hi Dogie - As usual another excellent guide  Grin

I discovered your guides whilst setting my my S3's which I now have 30.

Just started with my first S4 - All went 100% smoothly.

Thanks Again for such a great resource that does what it says on the Tin!

Cheers.

New user, registered today, one post - this one.

Oh dear - it is a very sad day when bitmain/dogie have resort to using fake accounts in a pathetic effort to make this piece of junk look good.....

Copy/pasting guides is bad enough bitmain/dogie, but this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel...... Roll Eyes
newbie
Activity: 9
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Thanks for the setup guide Dogie, really do appreciate what you do Grin

Will you be going into any detail on the 'Miner Advanced Configuration' settings, the bit with the frequency and voltage. If its safe to mess around with it, and what it does?

Thanks again.
newbie
Activity: 2
Merit: 0
Hi Dogie - As usual another excellent guide  Grin

I discovered your guides whilst setting my my S3's which I now have 30.

Just started with my first S4 - All went 100% smoothly.

Thanks Again for such a great resource that does what it says on the Tin!

Cheers.
sr. member
Activity: 261
Merit: 257

There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.

Most of this is a copy paste of the S3 guide, where do I start....there is so many things wrong with it. You even posted "Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.99 - this goes to the S3's configuration page.", half of the things under the troubleshooting section are wrong as well.

Maybe because two miners using exactly the same architecture will have a very similar setup? So far you've found one character wrong, anything else? Still not sure why you're coming into this so aggressively... would you rather there be no resource at all or would you rather make your own thread?

Actually the S4 is is many ways much more similar to the S2 because of the beagleboard. Guess ill list off some stuff since you don't even see it. I have more a problem with there being wrong information than merely incomplete information. I see you fixed SSH username/password one but there are still others.
Problems:
Bitmain firmware updates are no longer released on their github, they are now on the bitmaintech.com support section, the github was last updated on April 13th as you can see.
Upgrading the firmware can help with x's over chips as well, x's don't necessarily mean its dead on S4 due to issues with the first firmware release.
The difficulty issue affects pools that start on a diff of 1 and then slowly ramp up, if the pool starts on a diff of 1 and ramps up in a few seconds there is not an issue, variable difficulty itself is not the issue, ramping up from low difficulty is.
A single faulty chip should not affect it by ~3%, it should be under 1% since there are 160 chips on a S4.
legendary
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You are absolutely right.

No Troubleshooting with the actual problems (Firmware/Pools).

I said in the other thread that I'll be back today to go through the last 10-15 pages, answer questions and provide feedback and fixes. Most of my guides have been edited 15-40 times, what appears 2 hours after it first goes up is not the guide forever more.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com

There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.

Most of this is a copy paste of the S3 guide, where do I start....there is so many things wrong with it. You even posted "Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.99 - this goes to the S3's configuration page.", half of the things under the troubleshooting section are wrong as well.

Maybe because two miners using exactly the same architecture will have a very similar setup? So far you've found one character wrong, anything else? Still not sure why you're coming into this so aggressively... would you rather there be no resource at all or would you rather make your own thread?
legendary
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There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.

Most of this is a copy paste of the S3 guide, where do I start....there is so many things wrong with it. You even posted "Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.99 - this goes to the S3's configuration page.", half of the things under the troubleshooting section are wrong as well.
You are absolutely right.

No Troubleshooting with the actual problems (Firmware/Pools).
legendary
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A humble Siberian miner

That's exactly what the alternative subnet change instructions are.

Hmm, sure, but I was doing this without two first steps in it.  Roll Eyes
sr. member
Activity: 261
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There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.

Most of this is a copy paste of the S3 guide, where do I start....there is so many things wrong with it. You even posted "Using a browser, navigate to 192.168.1.99 - this goes to the S3's configuration page.", half of the things under the troubleshooting section are wrong as well.
sr. member
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Do not forget thah alternatively you can assign a second IP address to your laptop's network adapter (192.168.1.5 for example) temporarily just to have an access to S4's web interface with it's default IP. Personally I would prefer to change pool information firstly and thet change network mode to DHCP. This is because pool settings are not blank by default and I can't see any reason for S4 to be hashing for someone else, even for Bitmain (they were mine enough with these S4's I guess), even for few seconds ('cause nobody will mine for me even for one second I guess).  Grin

Dogie, what about fans replacement to make S4 not so loud? Have you tried to find an appropriate models?

That's exactly what the alternative subnet change instructions are.

I don't believe its going to be possible to retrofit quieter fans on the S4 because they're not loud fans - the moving air is loud. There's quite a lot of air required because there's so much empty space inside that not a lot of the air actually passes through the heatsinks. What will relieve us of the noise is fan speed profiles (home, normal, farm etc) and that feedback has already been passed on. The fans have full PWM control so its possible, and there does seem to be headroom on chip temps. Even 3k fans will be significantly quieter than 4k fans so every little helps.

A way to reduce fan speed a few hundred rpm would be good. I think a few more degrees chiptemperature makes not so much. Your idea with speed profiles (home, normal, farm etc) sounds good.

I have my S4 stand in the vestibule. I want to use the heat in the winter, and not waste it in the basement. But currently it is a bit too loud for me.
legendary
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Do not forget thah alternatively you can assign a second IP address to your laptop's network adapter (192.168.1.5 for example) temporarily just to have an access to S4's web interface with it's default IP. Personally I would prefer to change pool information firstly and thet change network mode to DHCP. This is because pool settings are not blank by default and I can't see any reason for S4 to be hashing for someone else, even for Bitmain (they were mine enough with these S4's I guess), even for few seconds ('cause nobody will mine for me even for one second I guess).  Grin

Dogie, what about fans replacement to make S4 not so loud? Have you tried to find an appropriate models?

That's exactly what the alternative subnet change instructions are.

I don't believe its going to be possible to retrofit quieter fans on the S4 because they're not loud fans - the moving air is loud. There's quite a lot of air required because there's so much empty space inside that not a lot of the air actually passes through the heatsinks. What will relieve us of the noise is fan speed profiles (home, normal, farm etc) and that feedback has already been passed on. The fans have full PWM control so its possible, and there does seem to be headroom on chip temps. Even 3k fans will be significantly quieter than 4k fans so every little helps.
legendary
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com

There are a lot of issues with this guide you should probably double check it.

Don't quote my entire guide please, delete your post. Feel free to post the abundant issues though.
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
Do not forget thah alternatively you can assign a second IP address to your laptop's network adapter (192.168.1.5 for example) temporarily just to have an access to S4's web interface with it's default IP. Personally I would prefer to change pool information firstly and thet change network mode to DHCP. This is because pool settings are not blank by default and I can't see any reason for S4 to be hashing for someone else, even for Bitmain (they were mine enough with these S4's I guess), even for few seconds ('cause nobody will mine for me even for one second I guess).  Grin

Dogie, what about fans replacement to make S4 not so loud? Have you tried to find an appropriate models?
legendary
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The whole idea of the scam thread is so that others can be warned of scammers. Advertising a proven scam group/pool simply because they pay you doesn't seem the wisest decision - but I suppose everyone has their price right? Did you charge them VAT as well?  Wink

I'm sure I just replied to this but I'm not sure where its gone. You made the accusations about an incentive programme they were running, not the core pool activities themselves. UK VAT isn't charged outside the EU.
sr. member
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