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Fuck, the case screws won't come off... anyone else run into this?

yep had to drill mine out

I literally had to RIP the fucking case off.... was not cool, but I was able to push from below once it was open and now I rebent the case and rescrewed in (some) of the screws...

tek eet ezay tek eet ezay.....no need for ripping nor drilling. Patience and breathe. Remove all screws that cooperate. Then gently pry with blade screw driver, butter knife or similar tool under cover near unfriendly screw with slight pressure while turning screw out, and proceed to next one. Most if not all uncooperative screws should come out this way. Grin

Got my batch 2 S2 a few hours ago - this is exactly what I did. Remove screws by hand, don't use a drill, to avoid stripping screw heads. For the stubborn screws, do as per above and pry the case gently to provide pressure while unscrewing. All my stubborn screws came out this way, and my case is undamaged.

Visual inspection of the inside showed everything was ok. Each blade has a connector to the motherboard at the base, and is supported on each end by plastic sleeves (I think the sleeves are new for batch 2). Much better design - prevents the blades from becoming unseated during transport.

When I turned it on it wouldn't hash (0 GH/s shown on LCD screen). I took out every card, and closely inspected everything. What I found was that the ethernet cable which connects the BBB to the external network port was loose at the network port end. I re-seated the n/w cable, put all the blades back in, and fired it up. Voila! It started hashing! I know other people have had 1 TH/s (and above) miners for a while, but this is my first unit, and I'm quietly amazed to look at this box and consider that it has 1 TH/s of hashing power inside. When I first heard about bitcoin (April 2013), the entire network hashrate was only 80 TH/s.

My S2 has been mining for an hour and a half. The hash rate shown on the LCD fluctuates between roughly 950 to 1100 GH/s. At the pool so far I'm seeing 968 GH/s (and slowly rising), I expect this to settle in closer to 1 TH/s when it has been running longer. At the wall it is draws 1039 Watts max (usually 1 or 2 W less than that). Temperature is 53 C (not sure what the room temp is, but I feel a bit hot). In the Miner Stats, for some reason chain 4 shows a temperature of 0 (no sensor / faulty sensor?).

I had it mining with the case off originally, putting the case on caused the fans to reduce speed. I guess the wind-tunnel affect of having the case on improves cooling, so the fans don't need to work as hard.

After I took the case off I could smell a light machine oil / grease odour. I don't find it unpleasant, just noting it. I think it happened because I pulled all the cards out. With the case back on now I don't smell anything.

those plastic things did nothing for me, 60% of them were broken completely when mine arrived and all the cards were loose and some had even bent the pci slots, 50% of the pci slots needed bending back. did all this and then found one of the fans is missing a piece of a blade, broken in transport like almost everything else.

replaced fan with a spare (well one i had to pull out of my everyday computer), then had firmware problems, finally managed to get logged in and changed pool settings, starts and mines for a while but after less than an hour blade 1 got really hot, like oven hot, strange how this was on the side of the case that didn't have a broken fan, hashed at around 1000 for a bit but majorly unstable, at the moment the unit is only running with half the blades in and gets about 500, this is not what i paid for.

How does one go about an RMA? I want a replacement