Urgent help needed - machine is dead ;-(

[chaser]

It could be a ram or flash problem which might explain why it partly works. However as I mentioned, do you eject the USB stick before unplugging it? Failure to do this could cause all your image flashes to fail in the same way.

 

[Larry-G]

It could be a ram or flash problem which might explain why it partly works. However as I mentioned, do you eject the USB stick before unplugging it? Failure to do this could cause all your image flashes to fail in the same way.

I have not ejected a USB stick from any system prior to removing it in years without any issues what so ever. As long as you are not actually writing to the stick at the time there is no need to eject it for modern OS's.

 

[chaser]

As long as you are not actually writing to the stick at the time there is no need to eject it for modern OS's.

Well, that depends on whether or not you've enabled or disabled write caching on the USB drive. On modern windows PCs it's disabled by default so you should normally be able to unplug safely without ejecting as you say. However, it can be enabled (sometimes by other software; not by the user), so it's always safer to eject - just in case. Bitter experience has told me so on a fairly modern Windows 7 PC

 

[jerry2]

I am SOOO HAPPPY, I have managed to solve the problem myself ;-))) I don't know what and why, but I will say how I did it if somebody get's stuck on the same...

I have connected via Putty and null modem cable and I saw after splash screen there says STARTUP and then it freezez and after like 5 minutes I get to shell of the terminal connection with command line. I have just deleted the ENV VAR startup and the receiver is booting again. It is a pitty I didn't examine the env var startup before deleting it to see what was in it...

I have to mention the ENV VAR's seem to be resistent to bootloader flash and image flash, that is why nothing helped. Seems they can only be changed using RS232...

If you get stuck, you are doing it on your own risk...

Take care and thank you for you help.

 

[lee74]

Ive got the same problem ! just unplugged mine and moved to another room, and stuck on openvix message. Ive removed hdd no display on box either any ideas???