Topic: Why am I having to Reboot My s3's 2-20 times/day (Read 1630 times)

its not your power supply or pool ....ITS THE FIRMWARE !!!!!!!
there is a power setting that's messed up in it.
the power settings in the miner did not save properly at the factory so after 20 min to a few hrs it drops to nothing or lo.
look in your advanced settings under your clock speed is the voltage it is probably empty or shows .0770 this is wrong

i explained all this on this sight but no one would listen.

the firmware is screwed up and if you don't uncheck the save settings box above your flashing file on your first flash back it will crash during flash and will be unbootable!!!!!!
if you don't uncheck save settings box before the next two flashes it wont save the power properly.

try it on your worst one and fallow my instructions exactly and it will run perfectly ! then you can do it to the rest

so download the first 3 bitmain s3+ firmware from there sight
antMiner_S320140826.bin
antMiner_S320141013.bin
antMiner_S320141219.bin

then reboot your miner!!! just so its a fresh start up

when its back up go to update firmware uncheck the save settings box and flash antMiner_S320140826.bin
at this time you will be at ip .99
when its done and back up go back to flash firmware and uncheck the save settings box and flash antMiner_S320141013.bin
when its done and back up go back to flash firmware and uncheck the save settings box and flash antMiner_S320141219.bin
when its back up go to miner settings erase all of there mining and replace with yours then push save and apply
then go to advanced settings click on 225 then push save and apply
then go to your networks and change your ip to what you want from .99 to . (your miner ip)

now type your new ip in search bar and your up and gowning!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i explained this to many people the other day and no one believed me thy thought i was lying. but now you are down.

i have 26 s3's and my s3' were crashing many times a day thy were working good and then crash down to 40 gh/s i have been working on this problem for a month and finely fixed them.
if you had flashed bitmains last firmware 1226 or you have batch 11 that's the problem and reset wont work and if you flash back to earlier program it crashes the miner and is un bootable.
i am willing to enplane step by step how to recover the unbootable miner and flash crashing miners back to good firmware with success. bitmain is making tones of btc telling people the control boards are bad just like thy told me and i fixed it. it took me three hrs to set up and figure it out and now that im setup it only takes 15 minuts to fix a crashed s3's.
if you want the help i can give it and in return it would be nice to get a btc donation for saving you tons of time and money 15s7keW5PNYESG63p2ZWc5GcEkDebx4Awp

Make sure to have no power issues, and not to be dropping connection before updating.

do an update and see if u still have the problem!

my miners are show~50ghs on 5s avg side and poolside but seems like antmonitor is looking at the other avg to determine reboot or not. I have tried switching pools etc setting difficulty and this is still happening. Someone please help this is so frustrating having to login so many time a day to reboot. Please help

what exactly are your miners doing?
wont boot?
drops hash down to 0-40-50 gh/s

can anyone verify if this is true?

also is this what people are saying to change. And it should clear some things up?

i have 26 s3's and my s3' were crashing many times a day thy were working good and then crash down to 40 gh/s i have been working on this problem for a month and finely fixed them.
if you had flashed bitmains last firmware 1226 thats the problem and reset wont work and if you flash back to earlier program it crashes the miner and is un bootable.
i am willing to enplane step by step how to recover the unbootable miner and flash crashing miners back to good firmware with success. bitmain is making tones of btc telling people the control boards are bad just like thy told me and i fixed it. it took me three hrs to set up and figure it out and now that im setup it only takes 15 minuts to fix a crashed s3's.
if you want the help i can give it and in return it would be nice to get a btc donation for saving you tons of time and money

i am running 26 s3+ and just went threw all that it has been a pain! but i got them all fixed now! do you still need help???

this is for sp20





edit my fault ok i am in the ant thread lol

Auto reboot so you don't have to check them: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178

Before you resort to buying more hardware you can try DHCP'ing at least a few of them to see if they stay up. DHCP usually sorts a few problems out, and you can stick devices on to always retain the same IP.

they are all static and yes it is happening to any of the 14 at totally random

Is it all of your S3s that have the same problem? What do the status pages look like when they stop mining? Are the units on DHCP or static? What firmware are you on? If its a firmware after 1024, you will want to revert back to 1024 or the beta firmware below.


Ps in the future, please try and find support in the S3 thread rather than making a new one.

I would advise doing proper troubleshooting and diagnosis rather than guessing and throwing parts at the problem.

If you think you have a network connectivity issue, first see if you can reach the miner on the network when it's in its failed state.  If you can, ssh into it and check outbound connectivity, see if DNS is working, etc.

Maybe try running cgminer manually on the antminer and observe its output.

Reset is not bad but, please check the Router or Switch!  It may solve some if not all the problem you may be experiencing. 

Also, when the miner is down, if you could still log into the downed miner, please take some screenshots of Miner Status Page.  PM us for the screenshots.  It may or may not give us some clues but may be worth a shot!

is it bad for my computers to have to reset them this many times per day? I wouldnt think so since there are no moving parts cept the fans but idrk and just want to make sure ty.

will this work http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704090

or is there someting better/less expensive?

Well if you have one flaky switch it can cause all sorts of issues on your network. I would try just one switch full for a while and see if they bomb out or not. If they run fine add another switch etc..

ok i just wanted to be clear. I am not connecting wirelessly.

I running all through wired connections and daisy chain switches etc all running into basic 4 port wireless router.

Now if I change this setup and run from my modem to a better switch. Then run my miners into the switch and the router coming off its own line off the switch that may isolate and fix the problem?

I think right now this location has like 5 unmanned small switches coming off the router. Please advise

cisco is  a solid company.   

here is another switch

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/trendnet-teg-s16dg-16-port-gigabit-greennet-switch/217395316.html?sku=217395316

if you are in the usa I have a spare and I use one with my sp20's

if you could put this in the room with the 14 miners and do 1 hard wire run to your router  you could see what is the problem it my be your wireless connection to the switch.

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Its always random s3's I have 14 of them running. I ahve tried switching circuts, psu's. I dont know wtf this could be could it be beacuse I have so many switches coming off the router? Please advise this is very annoying I have to check my farm every 20 minutes.

Someone else says its not the router but I have a really inexpensive 4 port asus router with 2 antennas. One of the new ones but I think they discontinued it.

Someone on here said get a good switch but I dont know cisco..... Please advise I am going nuts.