If see no way for the SW to damage the DRAM. But, if you believe that the DRAM is bad, then an RMA can be used to have your board checked out.
Gerald On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:09 PM, 'David Batzle' via BeagleBoard < beagleboard@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Can't get that far.New u-boot, from the flasher script, was locking up at > printing the DRAM size. Older u-boot was able to start but usually froze at > a command prompt. Now SPL does not get past MLO stage before locking up. > > The more I think about it the more it seems like the problem is flaky DRAM > that got progressively worse. > > Original question was if there is some way that DRAM could be rendered non > operational by the system locking up during start up with an SD card > prepared with the flasher script. > > -------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 11/23/14, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Is my Beagleboard dram dead? > To: "Beagle Board" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > Date: Sunday, November 23, 2014, 2:19 PM > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at > 1:10 PM, 'David Batzle' via BeagleBoard > <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > wrote: > > In my first message I stated > that I started having problems when I tried to update using > your flasher script. u-boot would hang after printing DRAM > and before printing the size of the DRAM. I am using > x-loader at this point because it gets further than SPL MLO > and because it seemed a little easier for me to hack in > order to try to find where the issue is. If I manage to get > this straightened out then I will be trying your script > again. > > Just run "nand > erase.chip" and ignore nand on the classic > beagle's > > The flasher > script hasn't been updated in more then a year and it > more > useful when users manually messed up > the nand. Now day's it's just > easier and painliess to ignore the nand.. > > Regards, > > -- > > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > -- > For more > options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message > because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To > unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from > it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Gerald ger...@beagleboard.org http://beagleboard.org/ http://circuitco.com/support/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
