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Originally Posted by rsisk
What makes reformatting the cRIO scary was the stories I have heard about how carefully the benchtest procedures have to be followed or you could brick your system.
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Try not to get too worried about what you've "heard". Pay attention to things you've read or experienced yourself, and verify anything else before you take it too seriously. You'll eventually learn which sources of second-hand information you can trust, but until that time, it might be a good idea to treat everything you "hear" as unverified rumor.
In this specific case, you've misunderstood two things. First, the "brick" problem relates to the Driver Station, not the cRIO. Second, the procedure that must be followed carefully to avoid bricking it is the DS firmware update, which is not supposed to be done until
after the bench test has been performed. It is probably theoretically possible to misprogram the cRIO beyond easy recovery, but I think someone would have to do it intentionally.