I thought so, but last release was in feb, so no changes lately, I don’t think it self update in the last weeks https://www.synology.com/de-de/releaseNote/DSM?os=DSM&version=all_versionsby poseidoposeido - uBoot
Hello guys, my da918+ has just died AGAIN, thanks to this forum, last time I was able to revive it, and now, a couple of months later is not booting. Same symptoms as before, flashing lights, fan on. When I las flashed the bios and revived it, I commented that sometimes when powering ion it did the blue light, I needed too “cool off” it for a few minutes before trying to power on, and that wby poseidoposeido - uBoot
Umm, I was able to boot it (using the 8mn file without extra padding) even got network and was found by ds finder, even updated it to dsm 7 https://imgur.com/a/1J7xVOV But it does not work consistently, boat of the times I try to boot, it does not boot or even show anything on serial.. there must be something else wrong with mi device too. Other times it shows boot info on serial but stoby poseidoposeido - uBoot
ok, now I'm quite puzzled, the file backup.bin that I'm extracting from the chip it's not 16 mb but 8, exactly the 8,388,608 bytes you comment, so I dont understand the padding step to 16mb also when I trim bios.rom from the original PAT file, is exactly 8,388,608 (I used this https://global.synologydownload.com/download/DSM/release/6.2.4/25556/DSM_DS918%2B_25556.pat ) any hintby poseidoposeido - uBoot
Hello @superchromix, thanks for your reply. My main goal in reading the chip was to check if I could successfully communicate with it and understand how to use the CH341 programming software (it's my first time). I backed up the chip's content multiple times but noticed that the checksum of the saved files was different each time. This makes me suspect that I'm doing something wby poseidoposeido - uBoot
first of all, thanks to everybody, op and superchromix Well I bite the bullet, purchased the CH341 flasher with the 1.8v mod, I can read the chip (connected to the mainboard using aligator clips) but each time I read it the saved file is different (I run a checksum on it) I dont know if that's normal, doesnt seem so... anyhow, now I'm stuck on how to generate the valid firmware froby poseidoposeido - uBoot