N210 recovery, no luck

Hi all,
I was setting one of our N210 we got last week, while flushing the
firmware
the procedure (normaly it takes one second) stopped this way:

USRP-N2XX found.
Flash size: 4194304
Sector size: 65536

Begin firmware write: this should take about 1 second…
Erasing 31744 bytes at 3145728

nothing for over few minutes, I did a CTRL-C and this time worked:

USRP-N2XX found.
Flash size: 4194304
Sector size: 65536

Begin firmware write: this should take about 1 second…
Erasing 31744 bytes at 3145728
Writing image
Verifying data
Read back 16383 bytes
Success.
Time elapsed: 1.200541 seconds

for the fpga part it didn’t work and it stops (I waited like 10 mins)
this way:

USRP-N2XX found.
Flash size: 4194304
Sector size: 65536

Begin FPGA write: this should take about 1 minute…
Erasing 1572864 bytes at 1572864

After around 10 mins I did a CTRL-C repeated again (as i did with the
firmware
but it didn’t work).

The device now doesn’t reboot (all leds are off) and performing the
recovery
procedure (keeping pressed the S2 while power cycling) doesn’t lead to
anything,
all led are still off.

Any suggestion? Shall I send it back ?

Regards
Gaetano

The device now doesn’t reboot (all leds are off) and performing the recovery
procedure (keeping pressed the S2 while power cycling) doesn’t lead to anything,
all led are still off.

Strange. Were you (by some chance) streaming samples from the device
while re-programming? I ask because this has always been the cause of
this particular problem.

Any suggestion? Shall I send it back ?

Well, if the device is in an un-bootable condition, you can always
recover it with a JTAG programmer (if you have one).

-josh

On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Josh B. wrote:

Strange. Were you (by some chance) streaming samples from the device
while re-programming? I ask because this has always been the cause of
this particular problem.

I’m pretty sure we had this happen without streaming, though in one
instance streaming was involved. My hunch was a packet loss at just the
wrong time, which streaming might make more likely.

-Marc

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Josh B. [email protected] wrote:

The device now doesn’t reboot (all leds are off) and performing the recovery
procedure (keeping pressed the S2 while power cycling) doesn’t lead to
anything,
all led are still off.

Strange. Were you (by some chance) streaming samples from the device
while re-programming? I ask because this has always been the cause of
this particular problem.

No, it was a fresh installed system so no way something was streaming
anything.

Any suggestion? Shall I send it back ?

Well, if the device is in an un-bootable condition, you can always
recover it with a JTAG programmer (if you have one).

Unfortunately I don’t have it.

Regards
Gaetano M.