2)
Dead means you can't connect to your pool. I had that problem witch H2C on some of my miners but on others it was working fine... Sometimes its pool side related that some bug occurred.
I would try to re-enter everything over a reset, if that does not work, wait 1-2 days and if that still shows dead after a couple of days (and your input was correct) contact the pool admin.
Reenter over a reset? English isnt my first language, do you mean restting to default in "Miner configuration -> general settings" and then putting the info again?
Also this is the info i used:
URL: stratum+tcp://hash-to-coins.com:3333
worker: up to letter the same as on the site (koljach)
password: one used on the site
3)
You can point your miner to any pool that allows ASICs and got Scrypt coins. You can also go to prohashing and get payed in whatever coin you want (also LTC payouts are higher)
Or you could point your miner to litecoinpool.org they are solid like a rock, never go offline and are super easy to set up and check the status with
And how do i know which pool allows and which doesnt allow ASICs? Also for you and Ryancope 123, registration is closed at prohashing. That was my first choice as well, but cant register new accounts.
About litecoinpool.org, thank you for suggestion but i prefer to farm other altcoins instead of LTC
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EDIT: Everything is sloved now. Used wrong format of worker name in setup. Thank you for input Albortz and everyone else