Hi,
I have just taken a brand new Buddha Flash (20th version) out of its box to try it out in my A4000. (The Buddha was purchased in March 2021, but has been sitting in a box waiting for the A4000).
When the card is plugged in as-is (no jumpers changed, DOM inserted, J2 closed - basically "factory settings" - and no other IDE device attached to it) the A4000 will not boot up, but instead sit silently with a black screen.
As it was suggested in another thread that removing the PLCC would perhaps at least bypass the early hang, I removed it.
This made the A4000 boot-up, but the card is not visible autoconfig-wise (which makes sense).
But trying to flash the PLCC, by hot-inserting it, and running the BFlashTool ("initial") has so far been unsuccessful.
The tool outputs:
- 1> buddhaflashtool initial buddha_ROM_52-101.bin
- BuddhaFlashTool 1.14 (07-May-2018)
- (C) 2018 individual Computers Jens Schoenfeld GmbH
- Assuming $ef0000 initially.
- Flash upgraded:no - CPLD upgraded:no
- ROM loaded. CRC32 checksum: f1eed6c4
- Press Y to start, CTRL-C to abort
- Flashing now ...
- Write error address: $0800
- Error flashing ROM - Possibly flash protection is on?
- 1>
Any ideas what I could try next?
Cheers,