i had my dm500 running pli for the last 6 months. everything was fine until i loaded a new image on, Eagle V5.2_CCcam 2.2.1 on friday last.
the image worked ok until i loaded a new skin on sunday, then the box would only boot to the loading screen and loop back through bootup again.
i got my usb to serial and null modem lead that i've used on a load of other boxes and went to repair the box with dreamup v 1.3.3.4
the box connected to dreamup, loaded the flash loader, and then was ready to flash so i went to flash the eagle image to it again. it got to about 75% when it returned an error and wouldn't respond.
i went through the process again but this time after it loads the flash loader it just says "dreamup upload completed waiting for acknowledge" and doesn't go any further.
i tried this again several times with the same result. i've changed com port settings and tried all the usb ports on 2 laptops using different compatibility (ie win xp, 98 etc). also tried an older version of dreamup.
i cannot get the box to connect through lan so its com port or jtag only. has anybody any ideas before i get the soldering iron out?
ps. its a clone and the image was from the dm500 clone images section of this forum, but i don't think it was the image as it worked ok for 2 days.