Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "bfl"

The weather has been great for the most part meaning the weeding has been done and then done again. It also means that it needs more wore in that area. I will also need to trim the hedges in the coming week. Of course the garden hasn't been my only pursuit this last week. I have been trying all week to get the ASIC miner working with no joy. I have even tried to re-flash the unit with the same results as before. No it is looking more and more like it will never work. But me being me I can't stop myself from continuing to bang my head of the proverbial wall. BFL forums have been no help at all. You would think that it being their product they would be looking to aide in getting it up and running. I know that is naive as why should they be bothered. After all they have already been paid and they don't care about the reputation their company has created over the past few years. I have received more help from the users of the Bitcoin Forum at bitcointalk.org.
Well I have another week off of work. I will more than likely try again with the Jally but I don't plan on wasting the rest of the week on it. No I want some time to just laze. Well I am on holiday, hehehe.

Well I go back to work on Monday. In a way I am looking forward to getting back but at the same time. Well you know how it is. You enjoy the time off with the family and yet as the holiday reaches its end you are beginning to run out of things to do. That is when the boredom takes over. Saying that I didn't get everything done this time round. I did fail to get the BFL Jalapeno ASIC working. I tried to re-flash the unit to no effect. I did finally get a reply on the companies forum. Not that it was of any use. Basically it was telling me to test the Jally on another system which I had already done. I know they need to go through the basics. The Mod that replied also suggested the same thing in another Bitcoin forum where I had posted. Obviously he hadn't read my post fully or he would have gotten that I had already done what he had suggested. Of course if you were to search BFL's forums now you won't find my post. It got deleted because I told them I had used the Jally as a baseball. I also said that it made as good a baseball as a miner as well as that BFL's, in my opinion, products only work 50% of the time. Well I got two and only one worked. If I was the only one to have said this I could say I was biased but I have read lots of similar tales in the forums. For a company that is not a good record to have.
My son decided to buy me another miner. This one comes in the next few days and isn't a BFL product. No the new one is an Antminer S1. A big boost in overall Gh/s which will be needed as the difficulty has certainly gone up a lot since I was last able to mine. Yeah I know I'm talking geek now aren't I and I haven't even told you how hard it looks setting one of these up. I swear I saw a soldering iron in one picture I looked at on the web. And I thought it would be plug and play, hehehe.