Hi pistachio, thanks for the reply. I see in your sig that your support gawminer, I actually got this from GAW just to test out before getting the bigger miners. But this experience is very frustrating very lately. I spent my time troubleshooting and babysitting this rather than running it. Comparing it to my ants, I spent less time, my ants are up and running in less than an hour with full hashing capability.
This is true. I do miss the simplicity of ants. I sold all of my ants to buy these Gridseed miners and they have been a constant headache. It looks like a TP-link 703N with the new lightningASIC firmware might solve your problems for $25-$35. I ordered one of these to see how it does compared to the stock LightningASIC controllers. I will post results later this week. This is the one I ordered,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221325209638?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649.
Thank you for the suggestions. For what it's worth, I have seen your reply about USB cable and have used 3 kinds which I know are working cables. I have spent the next 2 hours testing and I got the same results as before.
I do hope that GAWMiner did not send me a known-defective part to an unsuspecting newbie, and I just got an extremely bad luck. After waiting for 5-6 days for this to arrive, GAWMiner is quickly earning my anger. I have tried running these in stock (non overclocked, non modded) way, even lowering the frequency and the results are just abominable. My experience has been really bad so far. I know a lot others has been lucky, and I am in the minority (maybe even the only one). But still, I just wanna share this experience to all. My screenshots at the previous page remains the same and my BFG get stuck requesting for update. All this seed do is request update, get a few, then drops the hashing process onwards not picking up anymore.
I am throwing in the towel, and ditching GAWMiner. Maybe it is not their fault, but after trying out so many ways and means to make this work, considering it's just one piece, I am not getting any more from them unless they compensate me for this.