C-200 Audio & Video Settings not saved after reboot

[tinkle]

Hi,
My C-200 has just developed an issue where every time i reboot i lose my previously saved video & audio settings.
My Native resolution is 1080i 60hz but when i reboot i notice the flickers and pops straight away and under closer investigation it has reset to 'auto'.
All my audio settings are now set to 'downmix' instead of 'Passthrough'
No matter how many times i revert my settings back, each time my box restarts i am back to the above issue.

This has only just started happening and i am not sure why? - can anybody help with a solution to this rather annoying issue?

Many thanks

[halfelite]

first thing first try a factory reset. and if that doesnt solve it it might be time for an rma

[tinkle]

hopefully not an RMA, but i will try your suggestion. Can i force a reinstall of the latest firmware?

[halfelite]

if you flashed the online only step stone update you can do a recovery using this file posted here

http://support.popcornhour.com/article.aspx?id=1089

make sure to grab the second one if you did the online only stepstone.

[tinkle]

factory reset did not work, box just freezes.

I have also noticed that all my installed apps are no longer installed, when i say try and reinstall youtube for example i get any error message saying no space, i try and do the fix to reinitialize the screen just sits and does not progress forcing me to do a power off reset.

Any other ideas?

[halfelite]

try to do the recovery but it might fully brick your unit. Sounds like its having trouble reading the NAND flash.

[tinkle]

Thats not good news.

If i try the recovery will i lose the contents of my HDD?

Thanks

[halfelite]

No all data on the drive should be there.

[tinkle]

Sorry for the questions but i cant do the recovery because it still boots every time, the procedure on the page you link to relies on the screen asking you to insert the usb stick for recovery.

Can i force this recovery somehow?

[halfelite]

yes scroll down it should say how to install a jumper on a pin in the instructions

[tinkle]

Tried the jumper method and i got an ERR034 (wiki describes this as failed to format flash partition as ext3)

Any ideas what the cause of this is?

[halfelite]

The NAND is screwed up contact your resller or pch to start an RMA

[shabir93000]

Hi,
I have same problum the jumper method and i got an ERR034 (wiki describes this as failed to format flash partition as ext3)
Can same one help me PLZ. Thanks.