My photobridge went through a brown out yesterday and now will not operate at all. If I cannot reset this, it will be the 3rd time it will have had issues in the past 1.5 years.

Below is a list of its behaviors now.

* The LED stays lit solid green
* The ROKU will not allow the video pass-through to function
* The screen says "Loading ROKU software" and will not move from that. I left it on all night thinking it would load something...nope.
* When I hold the standbybutton down, the video pass-through works...until I release the button
and the perpetual "loading ROKU software" screen appears again.
* I have tried leaving it unplugged for 10 minutes or more. Upon plugging it back in...you guessed it, the "Loading ROKU software" screen appears.
* I have done the push exit button 5 times routine....nada. That did absolutely nothing.

So guys, is there a magic chant? Must I stand on one foot and dance the light fandango? Is the unit toast again?

If its toast, I will just live without it. I am not inclined to send it in for repairs again. Perhaps this machine and I were simply not meant to be.

Never had a problem with my 2 soundbridges.

Mike

Can you telnet into it and do anything? Sounds like the firmware got scrambled. There should be a way to bootstrap it and force a new firmware update. Wait, I think you can do that from the compact flash port. Isn't that how you do the upgrade to Rev 2? Put the upgrade file on the flash card and reboot?

So, I should be able to download the proper software, place the flash card in the slot, reboot and force it into loading?

That makes sense, now where can I find the software?

I will look around, but if anyone has a link that would be appreciated.

Mike

Mike Knapp wrote:

My photobridge went through a brown out yesterday and now will not operate at all. If I cannot reset this, it will be the 3rd time it will have had issues in the past 1.5 years.

Below is a list of its behaviors now.

* The LED stays lit solid green
* The ROKU will not allow the video pass-through to function
* The screen says "Loading ROKU software" and will not move from that. I left it on all night thinking it would load something...nope.
* When I hold the standbybutton down, the video pass-through works...until I release the button
and the perpetual "loading ROKU software" screen appears again.
* I have tried leaving it unplugged for 10 minutes or more. Upon plugging it back in...you guessed it, the "Loading ROKU software" screen appears.
* I have done the push exit button 5 times routine....nada. That did absolutely nothing.

So guys, is there a magic chant? Must I stand on one foot and dance the light fandango? Is the unit toast again?

If its toast, I will just live without it. I am not inclined to send it in for repairs again. Perhaps this machine and I were simply not meant to be.

Never had a problem with my 2 soundbridges.

Mike

It may be a power supply issue from the Brown Out. Or the HD1000 had brain-fart from the Brown Out and reflashing may work...

Ok, here is what it does now....

It will play any flash card i put in it OK

It WILL not pass through my video and the main screen says

Built in contains no recognized media files

I believe all the stored data was lost. Where can i download a boot file that has the basic OS files on it?

Mike

Well, now I have everything back to normal, including the video pass through BUT there is no demo material on the units hard drive and the software version is 1. something.

Where is the newest software and the demo material that used to be on the internal drive?

Mike

From the Roku web page:

http://www.rokulabs.com/support_pb_dwnld_software.php

There you will find the link to 2.0.36. If you want 2.0.35 or 2.0.34 or another version just edit the link to the version you want.

For the factory demo content:

http://www.rokulabs.com/support_pb_dwnld_demo.php

Have fun!

Mike Knapp wrote:

on the units hard drive

Um, there IS no hard drive in it!

dgburns wrote:

Mike Knapp wrote:

on the units hard drive

Um, there IS no hard drive in it!

I think he means the RAM that the ARM uses.
Heck, have you seen the HDD with RAM in them and no disk?

Burkhardi wrote:

Heck, have you seen the HDD with RAM in them and no disk?

Yeah...we use them in some military devices we build. Solid State Disk. Insane fast reload time if there's a hiccup. AND, since we can easily write protect it, no worry about data. AND, a spare is smaller than a credit card, no stacks of disc's to store, we just send them a spare with every unit and they lock it in a safe in case ever needed.

dgburns wrote:

Yeah...we use them in some military devices we build.

Does this mean you have to kill us now?

Donald wrote:

dgburns wrote:

Yeah...we use them in some military devices we build.

Does this mean you have to kill us now?

Nah. Take a look at all the IDE based flash modules here:

http://www.logicsupply.com/index.php/cPath/44

Donald wrote:

dgburns wrote:

Yeah...we use them in some military devices we build.

Does this mean you have to kill us now?

HAHA! Of course not...