Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S5 Setup [HD] (Read 59302 times)

curently have s3 running with no issues

got my s5
powers on
fans work
D1 blinks
D2 blinks and then cuts out
D3 blinks and then cuts out
D4 blinks and then cuts out

i tried to set the pools.... nothing
i tried to change mode from static to DCHP, was able to do that, got a gateway IP
its been running for 3hrs now and nothing

if i go to miner status, there is nothing there, not even for the fans

tried to reset, held button for 20 seconds just to make sure, it did not reset to factory

keeps working, but nothing is happening, what could it be?

I just bought the S5 and the same exact PSU you linked. I had everything running for about 8 minutes before it just shut off. Now when I hit the power button, the fan on the S5 and the PSU spin for 1 second then do nothing. Yes, I have the paperclip in the correct spot. I don't know if the PSU is bad or my miner died... Is there another way I can troubleshoot it?   -thanks

Try the Enermax Twister Storm @ 3500 RPM / 154 CFM / 11 mm-H2O works like a charm on my S5s even with a substantial overclocking - will try soon on my S7

Hello, i have several miners that arent booting up so i tried booting from an SD card but its not working either, i read on this forum that you could use the S4 image and then update the firmware to the actual S5 but nothings happening, any ideas?

Well, see, that's the thing. I thought they were dead too. The boards don't light up (red LED on the blade) but when I have them turned on it heats up. So i'm assuming it still works. Another thing I noticed is that the lights on the Ethernet port don't turn on either. Not sure if the beaglebone board is dead or if now both blades are dead. I have another S5 on it's way so I'll mess with the boards on the "new" S5.

If I understood that correctly, you removed a blade and the remaining blade is mining fine. The blade you removed does not power on properly and the LED codes seem to suggest its dead.

If that is correct, then... yeah its dead and there's nothing we can do to help here. Keep mining as you are and dispose of / dismantle / play with the dead blade as you see fit.

One of my blades died and I took it out of the rig. When I power the seperate blade on I only get the 4 green LED lights on the bb and the red one. The blade LED does not turn on. I reseated all the cables, tried 3 different PSU's, tried different connection cables. The lights by the ethernet port don't turn on either. And holding in the reset button is unresponsive.

Anyone know what could be wrong with it. It was hashing 650Gh/s easily at a cool 58 degrees.

Maybe it's an issue with the fan, did you plug it into the other plug?  I have a Delta pull fan on my S5 and it is controlled pwm via the second plug just fine.

Can somebody help me with PWM fans? I've bought 2 Thermalright TY 143s for my S5. When I plug one into the 2nd fan header it spins up to 1200RPM and stays there. As far as I can tell the pinouts are standard:

Pin	Use	Wire (new)	Wire (stock)
1	GND	Black	Black
2	+12v	Yellow	Red
3	Sense	Green	White
4	Control	Blue	Blue

Why won't my fan do more than 1200RPM? What I want to do is replace the stock fan with both 143s (push-pull) but they won't do the job at this speed.

set at 40% and im at about 52 degrees max....(in a room thats about 25degrees)

I am running just the 1 stock fan at 60% and mine doesn't get any hotter than 53.5.  I'll probably add a pull fan, too, and then over clock a little and keep the fans turned down as much as possible to keep the dB down as much as possible.

Try and keep under 60 if you can, obviously lower the better.

yeh did that and got down to 40% fan speed and temps at highest of about 52....although at daytime ambient will be higher temp so it might not be suitable.....
what is a good temp to aim for? highest i can safely and run it at without dramas?

Just monitor your temps along with any fan speed changes to check they're okay.

because im running 2 fans instead of one is it safe to say i should be able to drop the fan speed percentage to 50%?

They can be very loud especially with the stock fan .

I had a single G839 Noctua NF-F12 Industrial PPC 3000RPM PWM 120mm high performance fan on some S5s I was running a while back and they were pretty effective at cooling and were much quieter than the stock fan .

thought so thanks and it has 2 fans atm and the sound is insanely loud...

Yes it will make the same noise whatever mining you do.

You can make it considerably quieter by under clocking and / or changing the fan though .

this might be a dumb question....but if i solo mined with a s5 would it still be as noisy as normal mining?...

I have 3 S5's. One S5 , the BBB gave up the ghost.... so I put it in between the two good ones and have the data cables going from one of the dead S5's hashboards going to an extra connector on the I/O board of each of the good S5's. As for fan control on the brainless S5, noise is not an issue so I just have it running full speed by pulling the white and blue wires out of the fan connector. ( by pressing on the silver tab on the side of the connector, you can release the socket pin.)

Although my electric is $0.14111 per KW/h,  I still run the S5's for mining a select few of other altcoins. Those are altcoins that I have seen a consistent performance lately that are poised to become quite profitable after the bitcoin reward halving in June. I'm mining them for investment, not for instant profit.

My S7's are quickly becoming unprofitable with my electric rate. Soon I'm going to have to move the S7's to an office or apartment with free energy that has rent less than what I pay for electricity at home at the moment --- I've done this when I had S2's, let me tell you, landlords don't like it ;-) --- or I'll have to find a datacenter that has low low loooowww fees/electric or be landlord friendly and rent an apartment in South Dakota to house my miners, South Dakota electric rates are CHEAP! although being a 10-12hr drive. I have the equipment to make things completely controllable via the internet (IE hard reset via turning the power off, remote monitoring for climate conditions etc ) so I only have to go out there when catastrophic failure happens ... like one completely dies or a tornado decides to come rumbling through.


By doing so, the S5's become profitable again making a whole whopping $1 a day at current BTC value .... whoohoo ... beer money.