No Display

[David Barlow]

Anyone have suggestions as to how I get out of this one.

I just upgraded my Epic-X to 3.0.6. The reason for this is that I just finished a long project where the camera stayed on 2.0.5 and I wanted to try out my Canon mount which has been sitting in a box for over four months.

The upgrade went fine and on reboot after fitting side handle and Canon Mount, I was able to use my Canon 16-35 fine. Shut the camera down and went to try with a battery in the side handle. On boot up the touch screen was blank. I reverted to mains and although I could hear the fans and the lens motors operate, no picture. I have tried with a second screen, still no picture; and even with the bomb EVF where I just see a chip chart.

There is obviously a firmware glitch and the firmware needs reloading. Is there any way to do a force upgrade now? The new system requires the camera to be up and running with the reload through the maintenance dialogue which needs a screen! Catch 22

Any suggestions?

Thanks



David

[Patrick Tresch]

This can happen when the power of the battery is enough to get the cam started but not to give sufficent power to switch the LCD on...



Pat

[Trent Lillehaugen]

Anyone have suggestions as to how I get out of this one.

I just upgraded my Epic-X to 3.0.6. The reason for this is that I just finished a long project where the camera stayed on 2.0.5 and I wanted to try out my Canon mount which has been sitting in a box for over four months.

The upgrade went fine and on reboot after fitting side handle and Canon Mount, I was able to use my Canon 16-35 fine. Shut the camera down and went to try with a battery in the side handle. On boot up the touch screen was blank. I reverted to mains and although I could hear the fans and the lens motors operate, no picture. I have tried with a second screen, still no picture; and even with the bomb EVF where I just see a chip chart.

There is obviously a firmware glitch and the firmware needs reloading. Is there any way to do a force upgrade now? The new system requires the camera to be up and running with the reload through the maintenance dialogue which needs a screen! Catch 22

Any suggestions?

Thanks



David

You can still perform a force upgrade by placing the upgrade .bin in a folder named 'force_upgrade' rather than 'upgrade'.

[David Barlow]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Pat, the screen will still not wake up even when I plug the mains adapter in and remove the battery, so I am suspicious especially when this problem has occurred immediately after an uograde.

Trent. Thanks for this info. I will redownload the software and try this tomorrow.

David

[David Barlow]

Force upgrade seems to have done the trick. Screen now works.

I will be interested to see how the camera performs with the new build.

Thanks for the help.

David