Exactly - classic troubleshooting. Labeling and keeping track of what slots they were tried in will narrow it down. Don't change more than 1 variable at a time. That was the mistake I made with the hub issue. I know better but took a shortcut.

I would like 1 blade. I would have to wait for coinbase to transfer in. Let me know if that is acceptable.
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How are these coming in from china? air i presume.

boat would be too slow for the rapid pace of btc. Maybe shipping is causing the issues as I can see them being packed like that as they would have to be tested ("QC mining ;-)  )

Thanks for the pic's !!!

Next time anyone has theirs apart I would like to see a pic straight on of the card tops meshing in the slots and of the bottom board again straight on in the slots of the bottom case.

I think that is where the problems are coming from. Asic miner put the cards in too tight in the slots. So any kind of pressure to the case top or bottom is putting pressure on the heat sinks and popping the cards/heatsink screws out. They probably should just flat pack the cards and let a little assembly be done on receipt or increase height of case and use a springy plastic grid retainer with groves to hold the card tops like better workstation class pc's have. Keeps the cards in their slot, but has enough give to accommodate shifts in the motherboard and or heat expansion.

my .0001

You can run it that way to get going but I suggest at some point running it through a stratum proxy as it will speed up hashing and reduce the load on your router/wan.

I prefer bfgminer but I'm running OS X.8 with homebrew and I noticed a more consistent higher speed after pointing it from the pool directly to the bfgminer. The only setting to change on the blade is the server ip (your login id on the blade is ignored) which you set to the workstation running stratum (or other client). You can even set failover pools so in my case for example if bitminter is being hammered and or down, it switches to btcguild and will switch back of btcguild stutters or goes down. (setup your pools how ever you want).

Keep in mind that your workstation will need a static ip or dhcp reservation so it doesn't change.

Yes, Got some like that. In fact got one package that was completely open and a miracle I received anything at all ;-)

Remember that video about the stock room people tossing iPads at each other?

Somewhere in a huge USPS sorting center, people are placing bets on how many tosses it takes to "open" the corner on a box or make something that had no noise begin to rattle.

Thanks, Let me know when I'm up.

Maybe if we all leave out cookies and milk the elves will help ;-)

SSB will just have to move to an area with more reliable USPS 

Its standard mail that is costing them money the flat rate package's are making them lots of cash. So much that they are about
to test sunday delivery for Amazon.

I PM'ed you before and after the thread opened. Am I an the order queue?

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I would space the blades apart till you get more blades.

What fans were those? Link please.

I myself had planned on using the screw terminals by the PS connection to feed fans.

Call right at opening time. Also look up and see if there is another branch nearby, call them.

BISMARCK DOWNTOWN

220 E ROSSER AVE RM 112
BISMARCK, ND 58501-9998
Phone 701-221-6512
Fax 701-255-6963

BISMARCK

2220 E BISMARCK EXPY RM 212
BISMARCK, ND 58504-9998
Phone 701-221-6520
Fax 701-221-6542

Only thing I would advise is lookup the main post office for where it was shipped from. Call them directly and ask them to look into it.

USPS tracking either works semi or not at all. Packages often arrive to me days earlier than it estimates. It depends on the post office they are dropped off at. If they don't scan it in and just toss them into the bin then its hit or miss if they get scanned during their travels.

I have noticed that when shipping myself. when ever I have personally asked the counter clerk to scan it in, the tracking shows up sooner

I once received a plastic envelope with the top part of a shipping box containing the label with my address (no contents, just the box top) and a "Were sorry" note.

USPS at their finest   

FYI - shipping companies by law can not undercut USPS on shipping cost. That is why USPS will allways be cheaper.

Another Fun(NOT) fact. If you put a letter in a box or overnite envelope from another shipper etc. It must still have postage on it. Worked at a corp gig years back. mail that came in to main office and needed redirected out to other locations was bundled together in a box and shipped via UPS. Post dude came in one day and saw them boxing it up. Told them that they either needed to put canceled postage for all the letters in the box or ship via USPS and brought back a copy of the legal section that covered it. 

If by some miracle it shows up on my doorstep. Ill be sure to test it for a few days before sending it on 

Except they are now in the pre-order business as well.

it appears they should be shipped from hong kong as a diy kit instead of assembled.

I am also interested in a few depending on price and payment method.

Thanks

A friend sold a phone system. They said it didn't work. But what got returned was a different phone system broken.
They lost because they didn't have enough evidence to prove a swap was done.