Hey all!

I have a 32 bit controller whose controller board appears to be dead. I have attempted the recovery flash procedure with the same GUI version as the board reported before it died, but but have made no progress. The red light on the board flashes constantly when connected to the PC both before and after the recovery flash procedure.

Initially it was fine connected to the PC and communicating with SimpleBGC_GUI_2_43b5, however after some PID adjustments it lost connection and now I cannot reconnect, I see the error "Serial data corrupted" when I try to connect (COM3 virtual USB-Serial interface, no bluetooth)

I have tried the firmware recovery with SimpleBGC_GUI_2_43b5 (Which the board reported before it stopped working) and SimpleBGC_GUI_2_43b6 (The one currently available on the site) and neither has been successful, following the instructions of shorting the FLASH pins before connecting the USB cable, then using the manual flash option in the GUI.

When attempting the manual flash, the software reports "Failed to upload: Error writing firmware: [1] Unable to program FLASH memory.

The firmware flash details page reports:

Writing firmware...
Writing firmware...
Found bootloader version: 3.1
Chip ID: 0422
Starting Extended Erase of FLASH memory. This will take some time ... Please be patient ...
Extended Erased FLASH memory.
Unable to program FLASH memory.
Programming flash ...
Process finished.



Is there anything else I can try, or is the board dead? The COM Baud is 9600 and I have tried several different cables, connected directly to my PC's USB2 port (No hub, no USB3, I'm running Windows 8.1 64bit).

Any help gratefully received, considering it was talking to the GUI yesterday, I'm somewhat baffled.