if you see sometime: 3 non working dies ( with a config a) , and then only one non working die with another config , that's not necessary mean you have a broken chip.... and if i ask , it's only to help you ....
cheers.

. i already had some sick output on some of my miners, and squelching errors, but all is solved now.
i hope you can find a solution to your problem.
Well I tried all the miners with all the firmwares at pretty much any clock rate (even lower ones)
Your help is appreciated, I asked because if you had any indication that cgminer 4.2 on ubuntu 13.10 with FW 0.4 would solve my problem, I would try that again, to make sure I didn't miss something.