Quote from: bx8389 on January 29, 2014, 09:37:45 AM

Quote from: twib2 on January 29, 2014, 12:38:24 AM

I'm still trying to get my second Chili back up and reliable. Right now, it stops talking to cgminer/bfgminer after 2-8 minutes and needs to be powered off/on and the miner restarted to resume mining. Rinse and repeat. I've posted the errors earlier (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304250.msg4557778#msg4557778). Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

So far, I've tried: reflashing the the 1.1v-limited firmware, reflowing the FTDI chip, reseating a nearby small SMD capacitor that might have gotten dislodged, but so far still unstable. Before I had the pin 5-6 shorting mishap (hit an adjacent pin at the same time during a reset, trashing my FTDI chip), it was pretty solid, though I did have to reset it about once a day. Replaced the FTDI chip with a new one, programmed it (thanks Mr. Teal!), and was back hashing, but never stable or even usable.

Help?

Lucko's cointamination thread have a lot of info about problems and some solutions for chilli boards. I think desserve some attention: start here but look before and after
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=267649.msg4417461#msg4417461

Thanks, but supposedly the non-Lucko boards don't have the hairdryer problem. Still, I might try that for good luck. Maybe the initial problem somehow duplicated the strangeness of the Lucko boards...