Did you Brick your Mod Board ?

[seulater]

Did you Brick your Mod Board?
Probably not...

Over the years i have been with NB, i have seem quite allot of people say things like, i have downloaded my code and now its showing me a trap error and i cannot send new firmware to it via the Ethernet cable, now what ?

Thankfully, NB in its wisdom gave us an out. There is a boot monitor that first runs before it executes our code so you can get around this issue.

I am no video professional, so what you see is what you get. This screen cast should help those in need. Seeing it done is better than reading how to do it.

http://www.screencast.com/t/MTA0YjQ3Z

[chrispol]

Yep but you can brick that too i have :s

[joelwhitehouse]

This thread (and associated screencast) solved my problem.

My trouble started when I created a hello world project with both "AutoUpdate" and "SerialLoad" unchecked -- didn't know what they were and assumed I didn't need them. Then, once I'd copied it to my MOD5270, subsequent attempts to run AutoUpdate gave the error: "Programming failed with timeout."

Looking at wireshark, I'd see my development PC send an ARP for the MOD5270, then send it 10 UDP packets on port 20034 over the course of 24 seconds. The netburner module wouldn't respond at all. It was difficult to find this solution because Google finds dozens of other results for the error "Programming failed with timeout" and there weren't any other key phrases to search for besides "bricked."

But after following this screencast's directions, my problem was solved. Thanks!!!