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Title: Windows miners beware: FTDI driver update may brick hardware! Post by: Luke-Jr on November 04, 2014, 10:09:03 AM Ars Technica has an article about Windows Update pulling in a driver update for the popular FTDI chipset bricking knock-off chips. (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/)
I don't know if any mining hardware is using these knock-off chips, but I would suggest being careful about connecting anything to a Windows system for now. Note that if you have the WinUSB driver installed (BFx2 and cgminer users), you shouldn't be affected - but if it were me, I wouldn't risk it. If you know devices affected, please post here to let others know. Title: Re: Windows miners beware: FTDI driver update may brick hardware! Post by: -ck on November 04, 2014, 10:15:01 AM Duplicate thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831601.0 Title: Re: Windows miners beware: FTDI driver update may brick hardware! Post by: defcon23 on November 04, 2014, 10:16:25 AM Ars Technica has an article about Windows Update pulling in a driver update for the popular FTDI chipset bricking knock-off chips. (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/) Waw,waw waw waw !! ... INCREDIBLE ! ::) thanx for the advice Luke.. ;) another reason to stay (or coming) to Unix.. ( but yes... as CK said, that's a duplicate thread.)I don't know if any mining hardware is using these knock-off chips, but I would suggest being careful about connecting anything to a Windows system for now. Note that if you have the WinUSB driver installed (BFx2 and cgminer users), you shouldn't be affected - but if it were me, I wouldn't risk it. If you know devices affected, please post here to let others know. Title: Re: Windows miners beware: FTDI driver update may brick hardware! Post by: Luke-Jr on November 04, 2014, 11:34:52 AM Duplicate thread: Thanks, I'll lock this one.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831601.0 |