1g Kingston, Not Good Enough ?

[nik166]

wellll my gp2x got bricked some weeks ago, during a soft update attempt,

it just shows the black screen with the GP2X logo, so u-boot is still intact is it?

today, i received my new 1Go kingston card, formatted it on XP with a cardreader, put the kernel file on it, and put the card in the gp2x....


.... and still all i see is the GP2X logo <_<

is there a trick i don't know or do i have to make a serial cable to know where's my problem ? but even then that won't fix it

 

[yaustar]

The good news is that the UBoot seems to be okay. I have never had much luck with firmware flashing on Kingston cards.. PNY 128mb works for me fine though.

 

[nik166]

well the wiki and someone in the compatibility thread reported succeses with 1Go kingston ....

 

[Julius]

Did you format with Fat32?

But yes Kingston 1GB 50x cards seem to have problems... I have one too but didn't dare to update with it yet (the regular way). But for FW2.0 I will have to try

 

[reallynotnick]

I updated my firmware with my Kingston 50x 1gb card just fine from 1.2 to 1.4.

Not sure about the rest of you guys.

 

[nik166]

mine is a basic slow one, formatted in fat32, tried a quick format and a complete one, there is ONLY gp2xkernel.img on it , but no flashing screen :/


can uboot be partially broken only?

 

[Bramrash]

I think kingston cards are just a bit random in general, i have a kingston 512mb that i have formatted in fat 32 and it doesn't work, although some people have told me that it does. Luck of the draw i guess..

 

[Ravnos]

Yeah, a friend of mine bought a Kingston and it wouldn't work in either of our machines, so when I got my 1GB card I traded him my gf's Lexar (which I'd been using previously) for his Kingston. It works fine in her MP3 player but the 2X? No dice.

 

[nik166]

well i bought this one on purpose to try to fix my thing, how many chances are they for i got a "bad" kingston :huh:

anybody got a working card to trade?

 

[nik166]

flashed the kernel with a sandisk ultra II on the 2nd attempt!
(my nerves are on the limit )

still have to reflash the filesystem, aaaaaaaargh , maybe i'll be back in some minutes, maybe it'll find some way to fail, life is hard some days