Troubleshooting Bitcoin Mining Guides

What This Error Means The “Chain X Only” error — also displayed as missing hashboard, “Chain 0 only,” “Chain 1 only,” or seeing only 1…

What This Error Means The “Temp Too High” error — also shown as “Over Temperature Protection,” “DANGER: Overheating,” “PCB temp too high,” or “Chip temperature…

What This Error Means The “EEPROM Error” — also displayed as “EEPROM corrupted,” “read EEPROM failed,” “EEPROM data error,” or “hashboard EEPROM mismatch” — means…

What This Error Means The “Fan Speed Error” — also displayed as “Fan Lost,” “Fan speed too low,” “Fan X error,” or “Fan RPM below…

What This Error Means The “Power Supply Failure” error — also shown as “PSU not detected,” “No power supply found,” “Voltage output error,” or the…

What This Error Means The “Network Error” — also experienced as “Can’t find miner on network,” “No IP address assigned,” “Miner not showing in IP…

What This Error Means A “Low Hashrate” condition — also described as “hashrate drop,” “hashrate below expected,” “miner underperforming,” or seeing your miner produce significantly…

What This Error Means An “ASIC Chip Error” — also shown as “Dead ASIC,” “Chip [X] not responding,” “ASIC [X] failed,” or displayed as red/missing…

What This Error Means The “Voltage Error” — also displayed as “Voltage too low,” “Voltage out of range,” “Power domain error,” or “VDD error” —…

What This Error Means The “SD Card Error” — also experienced as “Boot Failure,” the miner showing a red status LED on power-up, the miner…

What This Error Means The “Power Off” state on a Whatsminer — also experienced as the miner refusing to turn on, no LED activity, no…

What This Error Means The “Hashboard Error” on a Whatsminer — also shown as “Missing Hashboard,” “SM [X] not found,” “Hashboard [X] offline,” or fewer…

What This Error Means The “Over Temperature” error on a Whatsminer — also displayed as “Temperature protection triggered,” “Chip temp too high,” “Env temp too…

What This Error Means The “Pool Connection Error” — also displayed as “Stratum connection failed,” “Pool 1: not connected,” “Connection refused,” “DNS resolution failed,” or…

What This Error Means A “Firmware Update Failed” condition — also described as “bricked miner,” “miner stuck in boot loop,” “firmware flash error,” “upgrade failed,”…