My RoboRio for my FRC team has been unable to connect to any software. We have observed how the status light is constantly flashing, the FRC website said that this means it is an unrecoverable error. We tried restarting the RoboRio and using a flash drive to install a recovery file. Along with that, we checked our wiring multiple times. The RoboRiohas not shown up on
our RoboRio imaging tool. Does anyone have any solutions to this problem?
For the recovery file, did you try multiple (preferably very small storage, under 2 GB) flash drives? Only some flash drives are able to apply the recovery file.
Edit: also assuming this is a rio 1
Is this a rio 1 or a rio 2 (microSD slot)?
Rio 1
Other than what @drewwhis said about the flash drive for recovery file you may try opening it up and blowing out any metal filings. The rio is quite robust, some times when shorting out because of metal debris it can be recovered just by cleaning.