Topic: The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 8. (Read 137902 times)

It was just one update - Dev is helping me too, Thank you so much Dev. I tried a system restore to last week, it didnt work sadly. I tried removing all the updates, I tried removing the driving currently on the miner, ive tried plugging the miner into another computer and even there it doesn't have the original normal information that it used to, that's what I don't understand. It acts normal but none of the normal information is there when you plug it in. When you try to program it with Chili flash on either computer, it doesn't show up on any USB port, so it won't let me reprogram it. Its frustrating because I know the computer notices it, it says "Downloading driver for new item plugged in" which always fails to download of course. then it just says unknown device and thats it. or "USB Composite device". It doesn't register as a ASIC Miner anymore.

Was it a single Windows Update or several? What was it an update for? If it was only one update, I'd probably try uninstalling that single update to see if that made things work again. As much as I don't like this option,  a System Restore to sometime last week might be worth trying too.

None of the above would explain why it won't work on multiple PCs but I'm using 2 Chilis on a Windows 7 x64 PC without any issues. One thing I'll say though is that I actually disabled auto-updates because I didn't want it restarting in the middle of the night and losing hashing time. I just check for and install them manually once a week or so but its a very bare bones PC with little more than mining software on it.

I don't know what to do so I am coming to the community. I own a Chili bitcoin miner and It has been working great for a long time. Yesterday, I had a windows update and it made my computer restart. When I came back, the miner was registered as an "Unknown Device". I have tried everything... Rebooting the miner. rebooting my laptop.. re-installing the Chili.hex driver with chili flash (No matter what I do, it won't show up on any usb hub, so I can't program it. It says nothing in the Commport it's just blank). I have even tried my other 2 computers.. both new and both I have mined on before. It registers as an unknown device on every computer i try. It's like the miners software got deleted and its just blank hardware now. It turns on, the 2 leds to the right alternate flashes and then quit after about 30 seconds then the large green led on the right turns on and stays on solid. It looks as if its running properly. I have tried to even look it up on zadig... When i did this before (when it worked).. It had TONS of information about BFL and it being an ASIC miner. Now when I check it on Zadig, It says "Unknown device". I've tried to download the FTDI driver for it because I figured maybe that was the reason it wouldn't show up in the commport - No matter how many times I uninstall the driver from the miner, It says its already installed and working properly and can't be updated. I really think something is wrong here. I need some advice badly and I would appreciate any ones help.

It's like the original software on the miner before you install anything on your computer is gone. It won't register as a miner on ANY COMPUTER anymore.

I have tried everything and NO matter what I try, The miner will not register as anything more than a "USB composite device" or "Unknown Device". Also, No matter what I do, I can not get it to show up in Chiliflash.exe on the Commport so I can program it. Its like all the information about the miner is gone.

Both computers are windows 7 64 bit. Both computers have run other ASICS in the past. BOTH computers used to pick up information about this miner, but no longer does, it has ZERO information about the miner

Disheartened, I have wrote the Dev. 5 times now and he keeps telling me to do things I've already tried, like hes not even reading my messages. I told him exactly what I've told you guys above, and he told me to "reboot it" then 12 hours later he tells me to "Try plugging it into a different computer to see if it comes up. If it does, the miner is fine. You could try uninstalling it while it's plugged in and then unplug/replug it to see if that brings it up."

I don't know if its a language barrier or what, I'm being very polite and now I'm very discouraged and worried that I'll never get this miner working again. I have tried everything I know to get it to work and I am stuck. SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME!

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Details...?

So where can we see some info on what you have in the works MrTeal?

I got BTC burning away ready to get in on a new 28nm miner.

I will translate that as meaning we have some Bitmine A1 28 NM Chili love coming. I hope I have enough BTC laying around for this ;-)

I'll be honest: It's going to be a race to see if Mr. Teal gets the 500gh chili out before I deliver the 300gh Jalapeno. :-)

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