Bumm hardware?

[kg6fnk]

I got a new 5600 a few days ago and I only played with it for a couple of minutes before I tried flashing it using the old 5500 procedure. After I found out about the differences in flashing a 5600 vs. a 5500, I was able to flash my 5600 and I was able to play with it for a few minutes.
                                                                               
Then it froze. Nothing would work including the on/off/cancel switch. I figured that it was time some flakyness in the kernel or something. I eventually opened the back and tried resetting it. It came back but hung in the boot processes around the place where it tries to start opie. I tried this again and it hung somewhere in the init scripts right after something about the PCMCIA.
                                                                               
So I figured that I would reflash it. I can\'t even get it to go into maintenance mode. I open the back, press the reset, close the back and I can hold OK and cancel for several minutes and it doesn\'t even turn on.
                                                                               
If this were one of the ia32 or ia64 machines that I\'m used to working on then I\'d guess that I have hardware problems. Does that sound right to people more familiar with this hardware? Or is it possible to get these things into really weird states where they are totally unresponsive? If so how do you get them out?

[kg6fnk]

p.s. It is plugged in. I also tried removing the SD card and the CF card to ensure that it is not a problem there.

[tumnus]

Did you flash to OZ? OZ is still unstable on the 5600. When you can, try reflashing back to the Sharp ROM.

To get back to the Maintenance screen, try leaving the battery out for a little while. I\'ve had a couple of instances where I couldn\'t get back into that screen, but I just kept trying and it eventually came back.