Hi all,

I recently traded some kid a bike frame for an s9.

Out of the shipping box its working without issue. It works completely fine on something like ckpool, but on nicehash keep dropping to 0 hash from time to time. Submitted a ticket and they recommended I install the asic boost firmware.

To start, I am an idiot. Im a linux engineer by trade (or well everyone is an engineer these days, lets just say linux admin). And gunned through the upgrade.

I did take a screenshot of the current firmware that was installed prior.

Kernel Version   Linux 3.14.0-xilinx-g16220c3 #83 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 12 11:42:53 CST 2018
File System Version   Wed Jul 31 16:18:27 CST 2019

I could not SSH by default and did not copy the kernel log which was silly.

I removed the pool to stop mining as I figured a firmware upgrade while under load isnt the best idea, and went ahead with the upgrade. Got the message firmware upgraded, reboot in progress.

After the reboot, nothing changed. Did some searching and seems the 2019 firmwares are locked?. Came across an article that wanted me to install s9_fix_upgrade.gz. Went to install that, but got the no sig error.

It appears nothing changed, the miner is blocking the update or something. Had I saved the previous kernel log would of had more info on this.

What can I do in this situation? Am I stuck on this firmware? I did find plenty of threads here but many are old and some are conflicting.

If anyone can help, would be greatly appreciated. I do see on the miner the usb port had been accessed due to the rip on a sticker that was covering part of it.

But my 2nd question while not really important, what did this attempted upgrade do to the miner? It succeeded and rebooted which is odd.

Thanks!