Ok cool. Thanks for all the responses, I really appreciate it.
I just want to repeat though that Im really confused why this would happen and I'm actually afraid right now. I didn't move or touch the blades, I just used the reset jumper on the backplane! I've got $2000+ of these blades running and now I'm afraid more will fry for no reason like these did.
Have no fear or doubt, these boards are all going bad, over the past month alone i have seen about 50 threads pop up like this one, posted a few myself, am no holding about a dozen bad blades out of only 120 of them to start with. Every one of them has died in the past month.
Truth is, these blades were nothing more than a second rendition of a new technology at the time, and one without 10 million dollars to spend in stress testing and other types of duty and load testing beyond the standard manufacturers testing. They were great for starters, they had a few design flaws, and yet many of us ROI'ed pretty quick on them. Many who paid in excess of $500 for one blade will never see that investment back without bitcoin rising to $4,000 a coin, and over the next few months i expect to see at least 20-30% of the blades in existence suffer the same fate that hundreds of us are suffering now.
Good news is, there are thousands of new comers to bitcoin mining who invested in USB sapphire miners. The big fault with those is that the ASIC fries out. and the day after you find it on ebay and can usually pick it up for $10, i have come across a few dozen, just pull the chip off your board and solider away. 5-10 minutes later, you have 333 MH/s
We have all been searching for a PCB design for the AM chip to make something useful out of our dead blades, and across dozens of threads, nobody has found one, which is suffice enough to say that one does not exist. Even a small 2 chip USB board would be nice, so we could at least get some use out of our chips from dead boards. If nothing more then to give all of us something to tinker with. Hell i would even chip in on a bounty for someone to design one for us.
In the mean time, i cut my losses and broke down and ordered a few 200 GH/s prospector mining rigs today to keep my hashing power up as blades die and wait for pre-orders to arrive. i think the prospector is probably one of the few rigs you can order and receive within a week these days. a little over priced at almost $6,000 but to have it now is golden, i think it's safe to say, $6,000 hashing away in a few days now vs. what it will get you after all the march/april pre-orders arrive, the results will be exactly the same.
Just my 2 uBTC worth, troll away if you must.
