ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[jimmyoh]

Hey all, I was updating my batch 1 S3 units to the latest firmware and one of them is having troubles booting now.  I cannot access it via the webui or via ssh.  I attempted a hard reset using the button on the front so I know the address of the miner should be 192.168.1.99.  Red light is blinking. I'm familiar with how to talk to the miners as I've had around 10 S1, a couple S2, and 10 S3.  This is the only one giving me issues. 

I swapped control boards with another S3 and it's working fine, so the hashing boards are okay.  I sent an email requesting an RMA for the control board. 

Does anybody have anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Dave

If I remember correctly when updating the FW you're not able to retain your old settings so you'll need to start from scratch and match your computer to the original S3 IP address and input all of your settings again.

[soy]

Hey all, I was updating my batch 1 S3 units to the latest firmware and one of them is having troubles booting now.  I cannot access it via the webui or via ssh.  I attempted a hard reset using the button on the front so I know the address of the miner should be 192.168.1.99.  Red light is blinking. I'm familiar with how to talk to the miners as I've had around 10 S1, a couple S2, and 10 S3.  This is the only one giving me issues.  

I swapped control boards with another S3 and it's working fine, so the hashing boards are okay.  I sent an email requesting an RMA for the control board.  

Does anybody have anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Dave

Use tcpdump to monitor the traffic on the subnet.  Once I thought I had changed to DHCP and moved the device to another subnet but couldn't find it with nmap.  I ran tcpdump on another machine on that subnet and most of the traffic had the correct subnet but some packets had the .1.99 address so I knew the problem was that it didn't take the protocol change to DHCP.

[davecoin]

Hey all, I was updating my batch 1 S3 units to the latest firmware and one of them is having troubles booting now.  I cannot access it via the webui or via ssh.  I attempted a hard reset using the button on the front so I know the address of the miner should be 192.168.1.99.  Red light is blinking. I'm familiar with how to talk to the miners as I've had around 10 S1, a couple S2, and 10 S3.  This is the only one giving me issues.  

I swapped control boards with another S3 and it's working fine, so the hashing boards are okay.  I sent an email requesting an RMA for the control board.  

Does anybody have anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Dave

Use tcpdump to monitor the traffic on the subnet.  Once I thought I had changed to DHCP and moved the device to another subnet but couldn't find it with nmap.  I ran tcpdump on another machine on that subnet and most of the traffic had the correct subnet but some packets had the .1.99 address so I knew the problem was that it didn't take the protocol change to DHCP.

Why would the address be anything other than 192.168.1.99 though? I did a hard reset.

[bspurloc]

Sorry about the off topic but:  Perplexed rather than paranoid, something odd has occurred since checking the UPS shipping status of my S3+'s from China.  I have two drives in this system both new this year, a 2TB main drive and a 3TB backup.  Upon getting notification that the units were shipped I checked the UPS tracking and saw the status but about that time one of my hard drives started making sounds as if moving data to the inner area of the drive and that read arm was loud in its snapping movement.  It's been happening every once in a while since.  Meanwhile I've downloaded SeaTools and fast check the drives and both are okay and now doing a long drive test.  So, NSA or China screwing with my system?

heads slamming in and out is a READ FAILURE. the heads try to realign then back to the platter area its trying to read. FAILS again and then try to align again, repeat repeat repeat. the drive a DOA. 
 The nsa accusation is a tad crazy bra.

[bspurloc]

So....long story short, I have a total of Eighteen S3+ Antminers that are in a building that for most of the time is not used.  Every once in a while, however, it is used, so I want to be able to easily drop the fan noise down via a scripted approach. I have Teamviewer access to a live system there and I've used Putty to SSH into individual miners to change frequency on individual units. What would be a good scripted approach to change them en masses from say 250M to 212.5M and back?  Sequential IPs and all same username/PW...

Thanks in advance!

I would setup a script on each one and then modify the web interfaces adding another page like 192.168.1.99/slowdown and 192.168.99/speedup that runt he scripts
then you could just do it all over port 80 via lynx.

assuming you know how to code etc...
web interfaces root is /www  by the way...

[bspurloc]

on the Antminers is /rom the actual hardcoded rom?
yeah prob since its RO

[grn]

B9 shipping already

[tripppn]

B9 shipping already

You get a tracking number?

[lordmykl]

So....long story short, I have a total of Eighteen S3+ Antminers that are in a building that for most of the time is not used.  Every once in a while, however, it is used, so I want to be able to easily drop the fan noise down via a scripted approach. I have Teamviewer access to a live system there and I've used Putty to SSH into individual miners to change frequency on individual units. What would be a good scripted approach to change them en masses from say 250M to 212.5M and back?  Sequential IPs and all same username/PW...

Thanks in advance!

I would setup a script on each one and then modify the web interfaces adding another page like 192.168.1.99/slowdown and 192.168.99/speedup that runt he scripts
then you could just do it all over port 80 via lynx.

assuming you know how to code etc...
web interfaces root is /www  by the way...

Well, I used to program my TRS-80 many years ago and do some work in PowerShell automation, but I wouldn't say I'm proficient at all. Was hoping there was a fairly easy way to automate, but I can research what you noted above, thanks!

[Stratobitz]

Our B8 S3+ Units are all running nicely above 500 GHash.

Well done BitMainTech!

Stratobitz

[Stratobitz]

Did one of you get one of those S3 delivered to France (or elsewhere in the Euro zone) ?
How much taxes did you pay ?

Winter is coming and I could use 350W of constant power inside my home, which would make the ROI a bit better.

Use EMS for shipping. You will have lot more chances to get it without VAT and custom taxes (I got 2 S3 last week without VAT/taxes).

If you are not lucky, +20% for VAT, 2.5% for customs. Something near 80€

Wow holy cow. So glad I don't live in the EU. That is insane. Basically makes ROI near impossible.

Strato.

[Master One]

I can only hope @BITMAIN considers the fact, that difficulty will go THROUGH THE ROOF with the next jump now that the network hash rate went beyond 260 PH/s, when announcing the price for B10!

[bruno033]

hello,
I need a little help. I am putting on my 4.6.0 cgminer antminer S3 version as I'm not too good that I am have explained to me how does have simple version. Thank you in advance.
Sorry for my bad English I'm French 

[pekatete]

hello,
I need a little help. I am putting on my 4.6.0 cgminer antminer S3 version as I'm not too good that I am have explained to me how does have simple version. Thank you in advance.
Sorry for my bad English I'm French  

To upgrade to cgminer 4.6 follow this process.
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.bak
  c) wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer
  d) chmod +x cgminer
  e) reboot

To revert back to the stock cgminer (assuming you followed the above process):
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.4_6
  c) mv cgminer.bak cgminer
  d) reboot

[bruno033]

hello,
I need a little help. I am putting on my 4.6.0 cgminer antminer S3 version as I'm not too good that I am have explained to me how does have simple version. Thank you in advance.
Sorry for my bad English I'm French  

To upgrade to cgminer 4.6 follow this process.
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.bak
  c) wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer
  d) chmod +x cgminer
  e) reboot

To revert back to the stock cgminer (assuming you followed the above process):
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.4_6
  c) mv cgminer.bak cgminer
  d) reboot

thank you, but I do not know where to go, would it be possible to put screen step by step

[jelin1984]

me too the same problem

[CHAOSiTEC]

hello,
I need a little help. I am putting on my 4.6.0 cgminer antminer S3 version as I'm not too good that I am have explained to me how does have simple version. Thank you in advance.
Sorry for my bad English I'm French  

To upgrade to cgminer 4.6 follow this process.
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.bak
  c) wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer
  d) chmod +x cgminer
  e) reboot

To revert back to the stock cgminer (assuming you followed the above process):
1. SSH into the S3 and login
2. Issue the following commands sequentially.
  a) cd /usr/bin
  b) mv cgminer cgminer.4_6
  c) mv cgminer.bak cgminer
  d) reboot

thank you, but I do not know where to go, would it be possible to put screen step by step

im guessing your on windows, so downloiad putty : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

start the executable, type in your S3 ip address, and connect..

use the same user and password you would use when going into the web user interface

then type in:

cd /usr/bin
mv cgminer cgminer.bak
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
/etc/init.d/cgminer restart
exit

[jelin1984]

thanks friend yes windows
i will try it asap

[Ustler]

Don't think B9 has already shipped. My order still showing unshipped + no tracking #

[Gws24]

Don't think B9 has already shipped. My order still showing unshipped + no tracking #

Mine have; received a tracking number this morning around 6 am CET