Quote Originally Posted by Oleg
If still blinks with power led - it's ok. Pmon is alive.
It doesn't blink in the way it would normally blink - in fact it seems like pmon is in a kind of loop judging by the way the led is blinking:
*power is connected* -> LAN leds switch on -> PWR led blinks -> LAN leds switch off -> PWR led on for 8 seconds -> PWR led blinks -> PWR led on for 11 seconds -> PWR led blinks -> PWR led on for 8 seconds -> PWR led blinks -> PWR led on for 11 seconds -> ...
I don't understand why the restore mode isn't working anymore - isn't this a sign that the PMON-code is damaged? Or does PMON need valid data in the NVRAM partition to start the recovery mode?
Quote Originally Posted by Oleg
Ok, if you can desolder pin 9 it will solve your problems.
I will try this, but desoldering only one pin is rather difficult (compared to desoldering a whole TSOP package)