MrChick
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Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:14 pm

Heya everyone,

I just upgraded to FW 2.00 using the easy upgrade.
Now all I get is a black screen and nothing happens (I can see a red LED flash on the inside for a couple of times, but that's it).
I already tried flashing the firmware again, and it still says everything went fine, but nothing happens.

Is there anything else I can try? It was working fine yesterday before the upgrade ;)

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marshallh
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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:24 pm

If the LED inside flashes on boot, the firmware was upgraded properly.
Probably the cart slot is dirty or not making contact. Try the old breathe on contacts & pull out slightly trick.
Did you mess with a bootloader upgrade before doing the firmware?

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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:29 pm

Didn't do anything to the bootloader, I'll try to figure out if it's something with the slot. Thanks!

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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:49 pm

Alright, seems like the connection is ok (now).

I get a very dim (might be my tv) black/white icon in the center for about a second, and then everything turns black again.

I already tried reformatting the microSD and putting a freshly downloaded menu.bin onto it.

Anything else I can try?

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marshallh
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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:43 pm

1. Hold L trigger while turning on. You should receive "Undefined error".
2. Do you have a different SD card you can try?
3. You can also try loading something over USB and turning on the N64 then. Like my MGC demo

MrChick
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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:31 pm

Alright, so far:

1. yep, Undefined error
2. yep
2.1. but it says memory card missing. It's an old 512mb Nokia branded card
2.2. the 32gb Samsung one still only flashes the loading icon for a moment and then nothing happens
2.3. I also have a CF I could try, need to find my cardreader first though
3. Nope, that would get pretty complicated as the TV is too far away from the PC :\

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marshallh
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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:48 pm

Sounds suspicious. Did these cards work with the old firmware?

You can downgrade to 1.05 by extracting these files somewhere and running upgrade.bat:
http://64drive.retroactive.be/downgrade_to_105.zip

You can then change to 2.00 with the easy upgrader like you did before.

The 2.xx upgrader does a RAM integrity check before writing the firmware so that will confirm if you have a RAM problem. I think more likely is that you won the SD card lottery and there's some small issue causing it to fail.

MrChick
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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:50 pm

The 32GB Samsung worked perfectly before the upgrade, yeah.

I'll try the downgrade and get back to you.

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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:53 pm

Memory check: passed
Firmware: flashed

SD-Cards: still dead...
Seems like I either killed the SD(s) or the SD-slot.

(Edit: the SDs work fine in my card reader, so probably the slot...)

I'll look for my cardreader to check the CF now...

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Re: Black screen after upgrading to 2.0

Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:09 pm

Alright:

- 1.05 with the Samsung SD and CF: nope (as previously, loading thingy for a sec and then black screen), Nokia: no memory card
- 2.00 with Samsung SD and CF: nope; NOkia: no memory card

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(btw: what's the policy on double, tripple, etc posts? OK or should I rather edit my old posts?)

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