I have read that this problem often occurs, and it happened to me, too:
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?
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 a new one 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 also 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://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294735.msg3371051#msg3371051However, 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 my board does work (the led works fine). Of course, I would sell it with a discount, but not very much, since the board should be fully functional (via CAN bus) for the buyer.
Please help me.
Thank you.
Fabrizio
fabrcop
Italy