Bricked Box -Vu Duo - Please help if you can!
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Posted 13 January 2012 - 10:06
Box was working fine yesterday until Power was removed yesterday, and put back on today.
Hdd is spinning
Measured +12V and +5V
But all that happens is the red diode in the corner illuminates, and also reacts to remote. Box is still dead.
Have tried to remove HDD, remove card and inserted USB with new bootloader.
Any tips anyone? I know it's not a PLi-problem, but here's plenty of members with the same box, so I'll try my luck anyway.
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Posted 13 January 2012 - 22:24
All cables was allready removed. As earlier, still no reaction from the box.
Tried USB with bootloader after reading a post on another forum, but I couldn't see any activity on USB so I don't think it's been messed up any more.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 01:13
My last hope now is that my homemade serialcable has faulty wireing since I made it in a hurry.
Network LEDs are illuminated if that helps..
Funny thing though... Seems like lots of people reporting bricked boxes after updating bootloader (excluding those flashing wrong bootloader). Also found one exactly like me. Flashed it, and had it working for two days before it bricked in the same way.
Thanx for helping anyway
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 16:10
That indeed is correct, but as hardly anybody needed it by then, my guess is that most bootloaders were only updated when people started to use the 3.1.1 kernel images.
Btw this bootloader updated was released long back end October
Same as me. Used a stable PLi from last summer before utdating now in january (U know.. WAF combined with busy days)
then is it the image ? What image you got on it or last had
Allways been using PLi, but as SatKiekerd wrote, I can't blame the crash on PLi. Only found some minor bugs. Other problems been HW related, like startup-problem while using a 16 GB USB for PTS.
Anybody knows if cutting the power without shutting down first could cause drivers or bootloader to be corrupted? (Like MS Win ) If so, I'm buying a ups for my next box.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 16:24
Anybody knows if cutting the power without shutting down first could cause drivers or bootloader to be corrupted? (Like MS Win ) If so, I'm buying a ups for my next box.
that could not be the case. The flash part that holds the bootloader only gets read, and it gets written during the update. If you flash the bootloader, and half way yank the powercable, then you have bricked yr box.
Only thing you can do is hook up a serial cable to the console port at the back and look if there's anything on the screen when powering up your box.
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 18:22
Tried the nightly build from 16/1... Didn't work... 15/1... Didn't work either... Still "Starting..." and red light on...
Flashed it with the bootloader update from Vu+ and then the 6.0 image... Worked... :-)
http://www2.vuplus.c...e-v-60-released
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 18:32
http://openpli.org/f...you-must-flash/ :-)
Which points to this (bootloader update):
http://openpli.org/f...873#entry242873
Edited by DrWilken, 16 January 2012 - 18:34.
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 23:12
Actually... See this:
http://openpli.org/f...you-must-flash/ :-)
Which points to this (bootloader update):
http://openpli.org/f...873#entry242873
Yeah.. but if you check out my first post on this topic, new bootloader was flashed along with new image and working for a couple of days before meltdown.
There is no reaction from the mainboard whatsoever. Just red led in display
Talked to the seller today, and his opinion is that I didn't turn of box with switch before cutting and switching on power again (I cut and reset the fuse), and that he have had similar cases earlier. Don't see how though.. PS is okay since I've checked all voltages out of it.
A UPS is gonna be installed asap.
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Posted 16 January 2012 - 23:21
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