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by Tiash » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:02 am
Hi, since yesterday evening gamebuino has stopped working.
It showed only a blank screen, with only the sound working.
Today i have try to format and reload hex file, but now it shows "Insert SD card and restart."
What can i do?
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by rodot » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:12 am
Blank screen with sound working means that your screen may have moved and got misaligned.
When you Gamebuino displays "Insert SD card and restart." it's a different problem, it means that the loader program can't read the micro SD card. You say you formatted it, did you format it in FAT16 ? The bootloader is not compatible with FAT32 formatting.
You can upload program using the USB port.
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by Tiash » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:22 am
I'm a Mac user and i have used this command from terminal:
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newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/disk1s1
where disk1s1 was the sd card
rodot wrote:You can upload program using the USB port.
How i can do this?
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by rodot » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:26 am
This is detailed in the
Getting started guide, if there is anything you don't understand don't hesitate to ask so I can improve the guide.
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by Tiash » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:30 pm
I haven't find drivers the Arduino/drivers folder.
But i have downloaded using the arduino guide.
Now i can upload program using USB port, but loader shows the same message.
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by rodot » Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:37 pm
I test each Gamebuino with their respective micro SD card before I ship them, so so problem probably comes from the way you formatted the micro SD card. Could you try to format it with a another computer running Windows or Linux ?
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by Tiash » Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:00 pm
I have used another command to format SD card, and now works!
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diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk1 1 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT16" "GAMEBUINO" 120M
Thanks!
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