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#261850 - 29/07/2005 20:01 Dead Empeg... HELP!
JeffreyB
stranger

Registered: 11/05/2002
Posts: 84
Loc: Cincinnati, OH
My Empeg just died and I need it for a gig tonight... Help!!!
No display, flashing LED, ethernet LED lit solid. Here's the boot log:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!


That's it...
I tried reflashing the firmware. It goes through a quick "Erasing Flash (boot loader)" and then "Programming Flash (boot loader)" and then repeats that again, and then I get the error:

Error "Flash program failed" ocurred during stage 0x10

Voltages on the headers look good 5VDC and 3.3 VDC. The processor is obviously running since I get the limited Linux message at boot up.

What could have happened? I need this unit in about an hour.

Thanks,
JeffreyB


Edited by JeffreyB (29/07/2005 20:19)

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#261851 - 30/07/2005 12:19 Re: Dead Empeg... HELP! [Re: JeffreyB]
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Um... Sorry for the delay. Weekends are always slow on the board, so emergency requests are always difficult to handle. I hope your gig was okay.

Can you try flashing from either another machine and/or file?
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Paul Grzelak
200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs

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#261852 - 30/07/2005 12:53 Re: Dead Empeg... HELP! [Re: pgrzelak]
JeffreyB
stranger

Registered: 11/05/2002
Posts: 84
Loc: Cincinnati, OH
No problem... Thanks for the reply. Everything ended well. I tried flashing from a 2nd computer and it went without a hitch. I guess my laptop's USB to serial adapter is not totally compatible with emplode.

Thanks again!

JeffreyB

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#261853 - 30/07/2005 13:12 Re: Dead Empeg... HELP! [Re: JeffreyB]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
Quote:
I guess my laptop's USB to serial adapter is not totally compatible with emplode.


They usually aren't.
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-- roger

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