Windows miners beware: FTDI driver update may brick hardware!

[Luke-Jr]

Ars Technica has an article about Windows Update pulling in a driver update for the popular FTDI chipset bricking knock-off chips.
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.

[-ck]

Duplicate thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831601.0

[defcon23]

Ars Technica has an article about Windows Update pulling in a driver update for the popular FTDI chipset bricking knock-off chips.
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.

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.)

[Luke-Jr]

Duplicate thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831601.0

Thanks, I'll lock this one.