I might be seriously f***ed....

[demonseedboy]

Okay, so recently i purchased a bitburner fury from ebay. The miner was running for around 2-3 days then t started to go into zombie mode and the only way i found to fix this was to re-plug the USB cable. When i went to do this around the 7th time. The USB port snapped off the board [picture].
http://gyazo.com/cf6da8eb169ffdc33552466ea3117ecc.png

So i started googling and people where saying take it to a computer/phone repair shop. I took it to a small indian shop and they said it was too small to repair. I took it to a major PC repair place in my town and they said the actual connectors themselves had snapped off so I have no idea what i can do next.

Any suggestions would be great. i would solder it myself but it is WAY too small.

I have read you can get a pic debugging kit or something but I dont think you can mine with that, i only think you can debug or firmware update with that.

Any help would be great! if you help me find a solution i will tip you BTC!

[aurel57]

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[demonseedboy]

Get ahold of lightfoot    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=148567

Why? what can he do for me?

[aurel57]

Get ahold of lightfoot   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=148567

Why? what can he do for me?

fix it I hope

[James222]

If it's a simple wire connection/souder, you can always re-souder it. If there were lots of wires then I guess you'll have to find someone specialised with that.

[coffeebee]

Get phone repair shop to get it soldered for you. They can do real tiny works. From the picture,looks like you have pulled up the copper lines on the board as well. Good luck

[johncarpe64]

Just buy a soldering and try it yourself.

[InCoinsITrust]

It should cost you cheap, just find someone, who can do that.

[braindead]

Where are you located?? That is easy to fix

[ledmaniak]

This is just a standard SMD connector. Repair shops won't be able to fix it but there should be many that can do this kind of soldering by hand(or with a reflow oven).

I don't know where you live but I used to do this kind of soldering on a daily basis and these components were one of the larger parts.

[Tommo]

Or you could get one of them USB-to-motherboard cables, snip off the plastic bits, match up the wires, and solder.

http://www.crystalfontz.com/oldimgs/products/cables/WRUSBY11_MoBo_End_492.jpg

[ledmaniak]

Having a better look at the picture, it looks like the solder pads are also ripped of. Will be much more difficult to fix this baby..

[Gator-hex]

Snip the end off a USB cable and solder it to the motherboard. Simples.

If it's powered externally, not via the usb, you only need solder the two middle data wires. You don't really need Ground and +5V.

Finally cover it in hot glue so it's not easily pulled off.

[Tommo]

A XBox / Playstation mod shop might also be also to help you out if you're not comfortable with the soldering.

[nairb131]

Can you please take a better picture?

[volosator]

Look for a local place which does repairs of gaming consoles. Do a search on craigslist. They have all the parts and they have reflow workstations.

[demonseedboy]

Thanks so much for the help everyone but like some of you suggested the actual contacts have came off so nothing can be done. Any other suggestions?

[ledmaniak]

The solder mask that is protecting the traces on the PCB can be removed locally. You can connect this to a new USB connector. It is kinda tricky but a skilled technician should be able to do it.

[gamefixer]

as some one else mentioned the pads were ripped off but the traces are still there. What I would do is scrape the solder mask off of the traces and solder a USB extension cable to whats left. Secure the cable to the board so the connections wont break off (maybe use hot glue to cover/protect them) which will leave you with a 2-3 inch female cable hanging off of the board.

Where are you located? If your local to me I'll fix it for free.

[warhawk187]

I have 5 Bitburner Fury's with problems that happened over time since I got them in October. One board hashes only at 13Gh/s since I received it, on this one, I noticed one of the chips on the board is not correctly soldered on (one side is raised), yet still hashes 10-13Gh/s depending on voltage.

3 have just simply stopped working completely recently, no lights, just dead. It might be a blown fuse but there is little info on these boards as to how to replace that. And finally three of them, two that hash, one thats dead, have broken USB connectors.

I am based out of NYC. I just messaged lightfoot, but if there is someone closer, or with a quick turnaround time could someone refer me to someone who can?

Thanks for the info so far.