İf they refuse send it to me (Turkey). I will do it free, only fee is I will keep board for 5 hr. to taste (not test
) it. 
Topic: Bitburner Fury (single) board (40-60 GH/s) with broken USB port: what can I do? (Read 1618 times)
March 24, 2014, 03:17:02 AM
they right theri is few micro usb connectors with little differences. One has 5 pins, one has 4 pins also one 4p is smt other one is soldering trought hole. But totally its a little job. it must take maximum 15 minutes.
İf they refuse send it to me (Turkey). I will do it free, only fee is I will keep board for 5 hr. to taste (not test ) it.
İf they refuse send it to me (Turkey). I will do it free, only fee is I will keep board for 5 hr. to taste (not test
) it. December 17, 2013, 06:08:15 PM
Update:
I have found a Panasonic repair shop that perhaps will do it for me.
However, they are not sure they will, because (they say) different kinds of micro-USB ports exist (??) and they must check if they have or can get the right one. (This seems strange to me: I believe that there must be only one kind of micro-USB port!)
If they will not do it, I think I will resell the board
(not for cheap, though).
By the way, other repair shops refused to do this job: a Samsung, a Sony, two PC, and a generic electronics repair shops.
Fabrizio
fabrcop
I have found a Panasonic repair shop that perhaps will do it for me.
However, they are not sure they will, because (they say) different kinds of micro-USB ports exist (??) and they must check if they have or can get the right one. (This seems strange to me: I believe that there must be only one kind of micro-USB port!)
If they will not do it, I think I will resell the board
(not for cheap, though).By the way, other repair shops refused to do this job: a Samsung, a Sony, two PC, and a generic electronics repair shops.
Fabrizio
fabrcop
December 15, 2013, 03:43:46 PM
Check your pm mate, I might be interested!
December 15, 2013, 02:01:56 PM
The device is completely broken, you should send it to me for proper disposal
Nah, just solder in a new port.
Nah, just solder in a new port.
December 15, 2013, 01:07:19 PM
You should see about getting the usb connector repaired, try some computer repair shops or even cell phone repair shops they do alot of micro-usb repair since people are always breaking them in their phones. Also the area where the port is should have distinctive traces for the USB, you can always jury rig a cable (USB has 4 or 5 wires GND,+5V,Data-,Data+, and sometimes ID). I'm not sure what micro controller the board uses but you can get the usb pins from a data sheet online.
December 15, 2013, 11:32:41 AM
I have read that this problem often occurs, and it happened to me, too:
the micro-USB port detached from my Bitburner Fury (40-60 GH/s) single board
(I have no other boards to connect to, through CAN Bus).
So, what can I do now?
I would solder it by myself, if the port was not so small!
(By the way, I guess it is better to get a new micro-USB port, since the detached one seems deformed: I hope a new one is easy to find).
Who can do that job? I live in a little town (in Italy) where there are a few PC repairers (or TV repairers, for example) but I am not sure that such a work is simple enough for a standard repairer (and possibly inexpensively).
Otherwise: isn't there an alternative way to connect the board to the PC (or somehow to the net) ?!
Consider that I have only one board, so I guess that the CAN bus is useless for that purpose (isn't it?).
Also consider that I purchased the miner on Ebay and I received no instructions at all, but only the USB cable and a Raspberry Pi with a 4GB SD card. I received nearly no help from the seller.
I searched the web to realize what I had to do, but I did not find much.
For example, I don't even know how to connect the Raspberry Pi to the miner! (Maybe through USB? That would impossible, in my case). Or... is it somehow possible a special connection from the miner to the Raspberry?
I have checked that the miner works, by connecting it to the 6-pin PCI-E, or using the standard 12V round barrel.
After a few seconds, the led becomes green and blinks. At that point, if I try to run the PIC32 Bootloader Application V1.2
(that I read about on burninmining.com) I get a USB error (of course). This is how I found that the USB port was detaching from the board.
(By the way, I have found the PIC32 Bootloader software by myself, somewhere on the web, but I don't know
where I can fond the main software, the miner).
I have also read that it's possible to fix a Bitburner Fury board with broken USB port, by using a device called PICkit 3 DV164131 (an hardware debugger? Price around 50 EUR). Here is the post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3371051
However, I read at the end of the post:
"After 'Program' is completed, the new firmware is installed and you can disconnect the PicKit and use your board for mining."
What?! If I disconnect the kit, how can I stay connected with the Internet for mining??
I reread the post and I understand that purpose is only to "update" the board.
This does not solve my puzzle: how can the board (without USB) do mining after the update? No USB, no more PICkit... So, which connection should be there?
(Maybe this solution only applies to a non-single board that is connected via CAN-Bus to another
one, with a functioning USB port??).
If no other solution is possible: is it likely that someone who already has another board (with functioning USB), buys my board, and use it through the CAN bus? I guess that my board does work (the led works fine). Of course, I would sell it with a discount, but not very much, since the board should be fully functional (via CAN bus) for the buyer.
Please help me.
Thank you.
Fabrizio
fabrcop
Italy
the micro-USB port detached from my Bitburner Fury (40-60 GH/s) single board
(I have no other boards to connect to, through CAN Bus).
So, what can I do now?
I would solder it by myself, if the port was not so small!
(By the way, I guess it is better to get a new micro-USB port, since the detached one seems deformed: I hope a new one is easy to find).
Who can do that job? I live in a little town (in Italy) where there are a few PC repairers (or TV repairers, for example) but I am not sure that such a work is simple enough for a standard repairer (and possibly inexpensively).
Otherwise: isn't there an alternative way to connect the board to the PC (or somehow to the net) ?!
Consider that I have only one board, so I guess that the CAN bus is useless for that purpose (isn't it?).
Also consider that I purchased the miner on Ebay and I received no instructions at all, but only the USB cable and a Raspberry Pi with a 4GB SD card. I received nearly no help from the seller.
I searched the web to realize what I had to do, but I did not find much.
For example, I don't even know how to connect the Raspberry Pi to the miner! (Maybe through USB? That would impossible, in my case). Or... is it somehow possible a special connection from the miner to the Raspberry?
I have checked that the miner works, by connecting it to the 6-pin PCI-E, or using the standard 12V round barrel.
After a few seconds, the led becomes green and blinks. At that point, if I try to run the PIC32 Bootloader Application V1.2
(that I read about on burninmining.com) I get a USB error (of course). This is how I found that the USB port was detaching from the board.
(By the way, I have found the PIC32 Bootloader software by myself, somewhere on the web, but I don't know
where I can fond the main software, the miner).
I have also read that it's possible to fix a Bitburner Fury board with broken USB port, by using a device called PICkit 3 DV164131 (an hardware debugger? Price around 50 EUR). Here is the post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3371051
However, I read at the end of the post:
"After 'Program' is completed, the new firmware is installed and you can disconnect the PicKit and use your board for mining."
What?! If I disconnect the kit, how can I stay connected with the Internet for mining??
I reread the post and I understand that purpose is only to "update" the board.
This does not solve my puzzle: how can the board (without USB) do mining after the update? No USB, no more PICkit... So, which connection should be there?
(Maybe this solution only applies to a non-single board that is connected via CAN-Bus to another
one, with a functioning USB port??).
If no other solution is possible: is it likely that someone who already has another board (with functioning USB), buys my board, and use it through the CAN bus? I guess that my board does work (the led works fine). Of course, I would sell it with a discount, but not very much, since the board should be fully functional (via CAN bus) for the buyer.
Please help me.
Thank you.
Fabrizio
fabrcop
Italy
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