Flash update fried my ACA500plus !!!

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Don't Panic. Please wash hands.

    Hi !

    I had an ACA500plus, wich I tried to update... so I unpacked the 0.146 menu (from there: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACA500plus_Firmware) to the root of a CF card.
    I launched the Flash Update process (F8 and F), then everything went black with a strange "low" noise (like a slow spinning fan), and a burnt smell.


    Now, if I plug the ACA500plus, my Amiga won't boot: no leds, nothing... still this strange noise, but nothing else !
    If I unplug the ACA500plus, then my Amiga starts...
    So I assume flashing the ACA simply destroyed it !!!


    Great...

    :thumbdown:

    Looks like you've tried to flash while overclocking, or you have an unsuitable power supply.


    Luckily, the ACA500plus lets you recover from bad flash attempts: Connect the card, power on, press and hold the DisMo button until you see the "0" and a blinking bar (like a cursor). Now execute a keyboard reset: This will launch the computer, and you can boot from a floppy. The update file is also usable as a floppy image, so must write to a floppy (or use a Gotek drive) and boot from the disk. It will re-write the flash and bring your ACA500plus back to a working state.


    Jens

    Hi Jens,

    Thank you for the answer !
    Actually, it could have been useful !
    But it turned out to be another issue I hadn't noticed at first: when I inserted the CF card containing the firmware into the AUX slot, 2 pins were bent and caused a kind of short cut or something as they were touching each other...
    I put the pins straight again, and the ACA miraculously went back to life...

    Quote from Jerome

    2 pins were bent and caused a kind of short cut or something as they were touching each other...

    This usually leads to a short (damaging he power circuit), or a broken-off pin.


    Quote from Jerome

    I put the pins straight again, and the ACA miraculously went back to life...

    Lucky you - the pins of the CF slots are really brittle and break off easily.

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