Oxford911 flash problems, need some help

[The village idiot]

Well I was trying a few things with one of my firewire enclosures, and decided I wanted to change a feature or to. So I grabbed up a copy of the Oxford flash utility, and installed and when about the changes. When I sent the info the the chips, it said it completed successfully, but in the real world, it did not! Now I have a bridge board that is useless. I tried the force flash utlity, with no success. It always comes up with a write error part way into the process. But it says the eeprom is erased and blank the few times I can get it to connect. The board has a model number of FWIDE 620HA with a TI TSB41AB3 transceiver/arbiter and OXFW911 controller. This same board gave me trouble the last time I flashed it, and had to use a forceflash to recover, so I am not too surprised it bailed out on me now. The flash utility is the same one listed in this thread:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130579&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highligh...pdate&start=40

If anyone hs any suggestions, that would be wonderful.

[BJ_M]

return it under warenty?

[The village idiot]

Nope, too old, more than a year now. I'm going to try it on a different computer and see if that will let me force flash the chip. If that fails, I may buy a FW800 board to put in the box. Its an ADS Tech burner sized box with the 40 watt powersupply, so it might be worth hanging onto. If all else fails, Via has a new ITX board coming that is only 12x12cm that is rumored to run on just +5 and +12 volts. It would fit very nicely in this box, with room for a laptop sized hard drive and CD. It would make a neat little server.

[The village idiot]

A little more success with the other machine, at least it stays connected better. Also looks like a dose of RTFM might solve the problem , as I found some mistakes with what I was doing. Haven't tried it yet again, busy most of the day, but I think I might have success soon.

[The village idiot]

After Reading The Fine Manual, I was still no closer. It seems the fine manual leaves out a few things, or at least not completely clear. Comes down to this:

When using the command line software, you need to have the bare card only! No power form the powersupply, no devices connected! Then you can run the production.bat file to flash the uploader into the 911. Now the GUI program will run and find the chip, after you unplug the firewire cable to remove all power.

Now connect the power supply and turn it on, and connect the firwire cable, still no devices connected then run the GUI, and make sure that the proper firmware and baserom .bin files are in the same folder as the GUI exe file. Hit the upgrade firmware button, select the firmware bin, answer yes to use the standard baserom bin. You should see the counter progress as it loads the files into the chip, and then it should complete. Now just turn the power off, and disconnect the firewire cable. Connect your device, power on, connect cable, run the gui to check and make sure everything stayed. If you need to make any changes to the settings, you will have to power the bridge board up without your device/drive connected. If you try to flash any change with a drive connected, you will have a useless bridge board and will be back to step 1.

[BJ_M]

WHOOPS -- i flashed about 6 of these with the devices still connected ... and they all worked ..

[The village idiot]

Might have to do with the devices that are connected. I think the last time I did it was with a CDRW and it worked, this time was a hard drive.

[ofbarea]

I had a failure while trying to flash a case that has a HP DVD200i burner. The case with the hard disk worked properly.