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.
That is pretty normal for a shitty support like nicehash, almost everyone and their grandmother use basic boost firmware by now, so they should have asked you about the firmware you were actually using, and that is July 2019 which is actually ASIC boost firmware.
as member supersonic mentioned before in this
thread you might just want to use the following.
just use stratum+tcp://sha256asicboost.EU.nicehash.com:3368
kindly read the whole topic.
and a word of advice to you, don't mine on nicehash, it will screw your gear, find a proper pool.
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.
SSH access is disabled on all new firmware made by Bitmain
I removed the pool to stop mining as I figured a firmware upgrade while under load isnt the best idea,
When you upgrade the firmware, all mining operations stop, no need to do any of that.
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.
By USB you mean sdcard?
But my 2nd question while not really important, what did this attempted upgrade do to the miner? It succeeded and rebooted which is odd.
It did exactly what it says it did, you have the latest firmware installed ALREADY, you flashed the same version, it did go through, but nothing changed, that is pretty normal, if you try to downgrade the firmware or flash a non-bitmain firmware you will get Failed! signature not found..
TL;DR
you don't really have any problem, you got the latest firmware, your miner is up and running, it has to be