Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S5 Setup [HD] - page 3. (Read 59212 times)

Look into pools such as this: http://solo.ckpool.org/  With it everything is already setup you just point miner to an address.

Can I ask how do you have 45 T.  Care to share pictures would love to see it?

hello good day.. any one know that how i can do solo mining because i have 45Th/s and i want to found my own block... please guide me..thankyou

I received my S5 this week from Bitmain, hashing good for couples of day then stop responding.
Can't get an IP out of my controller. I reset it, boot it via SD card, nothing work.
Ethernet led blinks but didn't show-up any IP.

Ticket open,  waiting Bitmain response on that.

Edit : I find my problem, hub module giving me some trouble...  reset and fixed.  My bad. ..

Proper would be the official S5 thread.  Anymore before you do anything you need to get permission I think they have cracked down.   Did any of the purchases come during the used batch?  If so I could see that being a problem as they might look at order dates and I believe it had 30 day's warranty so it could be over.  Also did you buy direct from Bitmain?

But post in official S5 thread, PM official account, send email.    The ticket should do it, but the other options are there.   But ticket should work assuming you meet warranty requirements.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right thread but I'm having trouble getting Bitmain to respond to my S5 support tickets.

I bought 34 S5's in mid-July and have had trouble with 4 of them.

1) A tantalum capacitor on one of them blew up, and both boards on the unit appear to be non-functioning, not just the one with the bad capacitor.

2) On a different unit, the fan quit. I used the fan from #1 to replace it. No biggie.

3) Ticket $ 3140: One unit purchased at the end of Batch 5, and sold as a new one, has one bad board with only 11 working chips. I told them I tested a different PSU but it didn't help. Bitmain suggested I try re-applying the thermal paste, which I did with no difference. Then they suggested I use at least a 750W PSU instead of a 600W, which I don't understand how they got the idea I am using a 600W PSU when I am using 1 of their 1600W PSUs to power two S5's. (Some poor soul must have cut himself on the heat sink blades as there was blood on the case when it arrived. Eeeew!)

4) Controller on one was no longer responding, so I replaced it with the controller from #1 also. It is working OK.

I wouldn't have done all this except that Bitmain's response to take #3 apart and try and fix it myself kind of shook my confidence that they would do anything at all.

However, I took 4 problems and turned them into just 1 and 1/2  I sent them Ticket #3277 to explain the issues.

But as I see it, Bitmain owes me 1 working S5 and 1 working S5 board. (Or I could run it as an S5-  Hm.)

As they seem to be sold out of S5s, I'd take a refund or a 2.7 BTC coupon on the new S7 (estimated)

Anything else I can do?

Thanks!

Pls. find below my customer experience with Bitmain.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ethical-problem-with-bitmain-1141392

Thanks a bunch, kind sir.

No, bandwidth is almost non existent. Lower ping <100ms helps a tiny amount, but mining is still more than possible on even a phone connection.

That's a lot of cables 

What about the Internet connection? Will it require ultra-high speed? I'm in Italy atm and these guys are infamous for not-so-good ISPs.

Multiminer sounds what you need.



If you're keeping them remotely then a cheap windows based laptop to put on the same network with teamviewer. Apart from that, ethernet cables, mains power cables, PDUs potentially, ethernet switches.

Hello,

First of all, thanks for all the info you guys provided in this thread. Very helpful.

What I would like to know is what I might require for the setup of, let's say, 50 Antminer S5 besides the miners themselves and the power supplies.

HI
thank you for this useful post.
Maybe my question has been asked already, if so I'm sorry about that, and please point me to the answer.
I would like to know whether is there a way to configure more than 1 miner at the same time, and if so how.
Thank you

thanks for the reply guys

just found out after flashing latest image... frequency was downclock. so adjusted it and its back to normal now

Sounds reasonable. The S5 is the first mainstream miner [S3++ the very first] that is susceptible to ~12V problems which could be anywhere from 11.4 to 12.6V. Non string miners take ~12V and don't care due to their voltage regulation, where as new gen string miners have to take ~12V and make do with it.

I was having the same problem when I got my replacement board. I saw a ton of HW errors and found underclocking would actually increase the hash rate and reduce the errors.  I switched to a different PSU and the problem went away.

Once he post's I have a feeling it's going to be showing 1 blade only.

Chances are he needs to do some of the standard things to see if he can get other blade back up and running.

Can you post a screenshot of the status page please?

i got my replacement from china for my s5 board. 

problem now  is.. it only hash around 670 gh/s my other s5 is around 1100th/s
i flash it with new firmware already. Do i need to adjust something to make it same as my other s5?

I warn all future buyers Asik Bitmain. Acquired 3 months ago 2 Asik Antminer S5 (Asik came on board the old version, it was noticeable that Asik have used, but I closed my eyes to it), but as soon as the last 3 months on a single charge Asik began to unravel, a company spokesman said that the guarantee It has already passed. And replace the board as I understand it will not be.

Attention! I warn prospective buyers of these products rely on having beaten the buck is not necessary, and certainly count on future income. Products not only send B / Y, but fail board pretty quickly. What consequence will not bring income. Think again, and think again, it is worth it to buy such Asik! Seller is clearly sends Asik has spent its life. Net sucking money lohah. Do not Think, do not be suckers!

I didn't have much luck with bitmain.zendesk.com.  The first tech asked me to re-diagnose the problem and wanted the email chain from my Bitmain China ticket.  After which he said he would get back to me. 

The next day after not getting a response I inquired about the status and got a second tech who wanted me to do all the same stuff despite me telling him that I had the defective part detached, in a box, and ready to ship.  He then said he would get back to me. 

The next day again after getting no response I inquired again and you guessed it the tech wanted me to start from the beginning again.  Luckily during these 3 days Bitmain China responded that they would pay for the shipping back to the China facility.  It should be delivered there tomorrow. Knock on wood I'll have a replacement early next week, end of this week if I'm really lucky.