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Re: Bricked RoboRIO?

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Originally Posted by cgmv123 View Post
From NI.com/FRC: "During the build season, you can call NI phone support at 866-511-6285 between 1:00 - 7:00 PM CST on weekdays"

Call in the next hour and a half and I have no doubt your roboRIO will be working by the end of the night.
Thanks for the quick response. In my haste/panic, I completely forgot NI had a section of their site dedicated to FRC and was looking through their main support site. I'll have to try tomorrow, though, since I posted this as my team was packing up shop. I'll post back then.

Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesD
This shows the LED status meaning:
http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...uick-reference

SO, what color are they blinking:

Power:
Green - Power is good
Amber - Brownout protection tripped, outputs disabled
Red - Power fault, check user rails for short circuit

Status:
On while the controller is booting, then should turn off
2 blinks - Software error, reimage roboRIO
3 blinks - Safe Mode, restart roboRIO, reimage if not resolved
4 blinks - Software crashed twice without rebooting, reboot roboRIO, reimage if not resolved, Constant flash or stays solid on - Unrecoverable error

You should be able to follow this procedure to recover the roborio to safe mode. Then re-flash the firmware:
http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...sing-safe-mode

While attempting to boot to safe mode be sure you don't have anything connected to the RS-232 (serial) port.
Alas, but I've already tried this. No dice from safe mode, either.
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