So I just got a refurbished Ebit E10D with 25 Th/s. It had some mining issues, showing 0 Th/s in the log. I tried updating the firmware from version 10.0.8.15 to 10.0.8.27, but now after the update, only bank 1 shows anything, while the other fields are blank. I'm also getting a 'chip id failed' error with the new firmware. Can someone help me with the full steps to install firmware on Ebang miners?
There is a section of the forum dedicated to both Bitcoin mining Hardware and Mining support.. One of those sections is probably better for this and not general discussion.
You will unlikely receive any help regarding this miner here, I haven't seen anyone talk about it and probably nobody from the active members owns ebang miners, I found this group on telegram https://t.me/ebitminers which I don't know if it's an official group or not, but it seems rather active, try to reach out for help there, of course at your own risk, and be careful someone might send you an infected firmware or something.
But generally speaking, when the miner shows lost asics or a whole chain/hashboard is lost, it means a hardware failure, which is usually beyond fixing for the average joe, if you can return the miner -- it would be the best move in my honest oppinion.
That's bad you bought it refurbished which has a high risk that this miner could be easily broken.
The Ebang actually have poor support if you want some little help from us then better post the whole logs you talking about then post it here.
If you have a posting limit and can't able to post the whole logs you can use pastebin.com then paste the URL here.
About flashing or upgrading the miner I found a guide on how to upgrade it. Check this link below
- https://www.zeusbtc.com/articles/asic-miner-troubleshooting/1767-ebit-e10-firmware-upgrade-instructions
I have 4 of the 10.3 models they are just crappy machines. The boards are probably dead. I am somewhat knowledgeable and have never been able to fix them. I ran into pretty much the same issue you are describing.
According to one of my very reliable sources in China, refurbished miners in China aren't exactly refurbished in a way that most of us think, they simply change everything thing except for the control board and hahsboards (the only things that actually matter), and then I imagine during the process some physical damage can easily happen, which makes buying a refurbished gear a little bit more risky than just buying a used one.