Topic: Bitburner Fury (single) board with broken USB port: what can I do? (Read 1253 times)

It happened to me, too (I have read that this problem often occurs):
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? (Apart posting this message into this "newbies" forum)?

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 it 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 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 the board does work (the led works fine). Of course, with a discount, but not very much, since the board should be fully functional (via CAN bus) for the buyer.

Please help me.
(Or, if possible, please allow me to post this question into the proper forum).

Thank you.

Fabrizio
fabrcop
Italy