RE: Audiotron Wifi

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>]

> > I thought in that case, it should automatically reload the old
bios?
> > That was the point anyway - in case of failure.
> > Maybe it's still a 'beta' feature :(
> 
> No, it appears that the firmware upgrade process rewrites 
> itself on flash memory and the bootstrap loader is not intelligent
enough
to 
> distinguish a good firmware from a bad one. So if the process is
interrupted for
> whatever reasons, the firmware will be corrupted and thus unable to
power
> up next time.

LOL, so the point of it backing up the old firmware is...... :-?

> > Ah well, luckily the firmaware updates are a bit less 
> frequent these days,
> > so it's no biggie to unplug and move to a wired lan 
> connection when updates are needed....
> 
> The dead AudioTron was upgraded using a wired LAN connection.

Hmmm.... I thought that kinda thing (user interruptions aside) was
somewhat
a thing of the past.
When I 1st joined the AT list, the were quite a few ppl complaining
about
killing their AT's, but not seen a message like that for month's
now.......

Did the user do something mid upgrade perhaps? 


T.


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