WinTame2012:  Interesting idea about the wifi power draw being affected by the antenna.  I had installed 9dB antenna's on mine, which have now been decommissioned, of course.  Above, senseless says that he was not using wifi when the chip was burned, but it was still enabled.  No doubt he wasn't using an antenna, if he wasn't using wifi.  And that is the scenario during which his chip was burned.

spiccioli:  I think that under the 'interface' tab, where the LAN and WWAN devices are listed, it allows for disabling, if I remember correctly.  Under the wifi tab it offers an option to remove the instance that is setup, below the scan button.  I removed this instance and the WWAN listing on the 'interface' tab had then disappeared.  I am assuming the kernel doesn't load the wifi software/driver, if there is no listing there, but I don't know enough to check this.

ProfMac:  Yes, this is good news.  I do note that the decision to make this change had already been made by the time senseless was in the Avalon irc chat with xiangfu when he learned of the news of this.  I was there with senseless and abracadabra when he was being shown the pics of the burned chip and hearing senseless's news.  ngzhang had communicated to him already that F1 fuse removal was a good idea... and that the remaining batch2/3 unites were being made with the revision.

drakness

I removed wifi on my batch #2's on Thursday evening... have not cut/removed fused F1, yet.  Wanted to report that the NEC usb hub chip is room temperature, to the touch (during hashing).

Leaving it alone, for now.  Anyone else besides btclvr try the mod?

Anyone with a successful removal of fuse F1, yet?

Bump senseless's question.

If F1 is the power line to USB-A1... if nothing is plugged into USB-A1, how is this causing too much power to be drawn from the control board?  Perhaps that is why Bitsyncom said "this is fine"?

silverserpent: That looks normal, to me.  Matches mine.

Looking closely at that fuse (F1), you can see the fuse (the squiggly line).  It is encased in what looks like clear blue/green plastic.  Perhaps so you can see it... it is a fuse after all.  I am wondering if an exacto knife type blade could just slice through it, breaking the connection.  Granted, you would have to be careful not to damage anything else... but I trust myself more to do that than to de-solder a component.

Senseless:  Sorry for your troubles and these neophyte questions, trying to understand... you are recommending using the ethernet port, but not the wifi?

You suggest that perhaps the TPLink adapter drawing enough power to run both ethernet and wifi, concurrently, might have damaged the chip?

To use ethernet port, is there anything involved besides setting a static IP, other than 192.168.0.100; so you know how to access the web interface?

Also just received my receipt, with shipping address.  And the order page now is accurate.  Thanks fellas.

Yes, creativex!  Exactly same situation as me.  Equally disconcerting.  No receipt, no shipping address confirmation.  I suppose we just have faith.  And wait. 

Batch 2 customers.  A couple quick questions, if you don't mind. 

Sounds like some of you can see your shipping address when you log into the store?  I can't. 

And can you see any orders in your history?  I can't.

Indeed, reason to celebrate, good sir.

Is anyone else waiting to get confirmation from Avalon for a Batch2 purchase? 

Tried to confirm my order by messaging him here, at his request, 6 weeks ago... and created a support ticket 2 weeks ago... both have gone unanswered.

The units were paid for 2 months ago... and besides WalletBit confirming the purchase, via email, at my request... nothing.

Anyone?

Guys, I got repaid in full today.

$4,300.  Settled.  I hope that you all are made whole.  God Bless Tom and his family.

User: drakness
Order: #813 and #1274
Paid in: BTC
Amount: $4,339.96
Date Requested: 01-13-2013
Location: US
Paid: none

Long-time user, here.  Just launched 0.8 for the first time.  I have the setting made to connect through proxy only (Tor).  The new client inherited that setting from previous installations.  I FORGOT to launch Tor, but the blockchain is downloading anyway.  

If I am not mistaken, this means it is connecting to the network, ignoring the proxy checked setting.

UPDATE:  It stopped syncing at 26 days left.  So maybe the bootstrapped portion of the block does not go through proxy?

miter myles, do you get the impression that you are helping anything?

I appreciate the update, and any efforts to refund.

#1 Ineptitude

Order #8xx for two, Order #12xx for two.  Paid BTC.  Requested refund Jan13th.  Status on btcfpga: "Refund Requested".  Nothing received.

What if the exchange rate had gone down?

Tom owes me ~$8600.  I don't care if it is 8600 BTC worth $1 each, or a single BTC worth $8600.
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Exactly.  Still hopeful.  But going to check the address is painful, still, every time.

A lesson learned the hard way, all too often.