Anyone had the OverDrive 1000 failure: "Synchronous Exception at 0x00000081FBA605D8" ? Anyone recovered from such?

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-May-11, at 20:12, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I initiated a reboot of the OverDrive 1000 that I
> have access to and it got:
> 
> QUOTE
> NOTICE:  BL3-1: 
> NOTICE:  BL3-1: Built : 14:04:15, Apr  9 2016
> INFO:    BL3-1: Initializing runtime services
> INFO:    BL3-1: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
> INFO:    BL3-1: Next image address = 0x8000e80000
> INFO:    BL3-1: Next image spsr = 0x3c9
> 
> 
> Synchronous Exception at 0x00000081FBA605D8
> END QUOTE
> 
> Power On gets the same. So far 100% repeating.
> 
> Disconnecting everything but the USB serial gets
> the same. Swapping the DIMMs gets the same,
> 0x00000081FBA605D8 unchanged.
> 
> Anyone had the issue and any success with recovering
> from the failure? Other potentially useful information
> related to the issue?


Well, the attempt to re-flash the EDK2 UEFI firmware
did not go well:

QUOTE
# ./flasher/flasher --program --verify OVERDRIVE1000_ROM.fd --verbose --flash
Opening the Overdrive 1000 flasher device.
Holding Device in Reset.
Erasing flash.
Programming flash.
                                               
Verifying flash.
Verify Failed on block starting at 0          
Read from device: 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   


Expected:
aa 55 aa 55 ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
00 10 00 00 ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff   

                                               
Verification of programmed memory failed
END QUOTE

It may be the end for the OverDrive 1000.


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Mark Millard
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