Driver Station ESD sensitivity

[Mark McLeod]

What I found interesting is that it appears to be similar in nature to the problem that the IP receiver had last year.
Upon examination of the one dead DS I've seen, the DS Bootloader is starting, but the Linux kernel does not load. It has the appearance of the memory being scrambled, so the bootstrapper has nothing to load.

One of the rookie teams I mentor had their Driver Station die this past Friday. I just got my hands on it yesterday to check it out.
By reports theirs didn't die immediately, but first became sporatic with the KwikByte logo screen sometimes showing up and at other times just a blank LCD. It now has a blank screen whenever it gets powered up, so it's completely dead. I don't know enough to finger a specific cause, but static discharge is possible.