I was hoping to attempt to fix my Jalapeno ASIC miner today. I ordered a Raspberry Pi from Amazon during the week and it was delivered yesterday. Unfortunately after putting it together and plugging it in it failed to work. The good thing is that Amazon will pick it up from the house without cost. I was very pleased to see that. It is a pity all companies didn't offer that same customer care when their items don't turn out as promised. Sadly they couldn't just simply replace the item so I will need to reorder so I can try again to flash the Jalapeno.
Though I will never make any near what I paid out for the ASIC miner if I could get it to work. I still would like to see my money doing what I paid for so to say. Of course there is no real certainty that flashing it would get it working. Yet with all I have read after I got it, it would seem like there is half a chance that it will. After all my computer recognizes that it is connected but the mining software doesn't. Yes it does sound strange but the one I got for my son worked fine. Anyways from what I read I wasn't the only one this happened to and the general advice is to flash the device in question. So that is what I was planning as I couldn't afford to send it back to Butterfly Labs. It is a pity they weren't more like Amazon it would have saved me a little disappointment.