I though i could donate the chip to someone in the community.
Unfortunately, unless there were solder bridges on the IO pins causing the issue, the chip is likely non-functional.
nice sentiment tho

Actually mine was an interesting case. Chip 4 was hashing fine, but was not forwarding SPI

. Thus I had to cut the traces of Chip 5 first

and jump the SPI. Still no fish.
Wish I had a scope

. I graduated from the univ, so missing all the nice bench equipment.
So I have potentially 2 hashing chips that could be donated.