Black Mamba stops working...

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby Troll » Fri Jan 01, 2016 21:46

Thanks for the info DHRF!

I disabled xHCI in the BIOS and that may have fixed things... I thought that was needed for USB 3 ports, but they still work without xHCI.

About the Mamba.
I couldn't leave it alone. I thought: "New Year, new possibilities!" ;-)
I flashed it back to the 1.58 fw and the shut downs started again. Can't have that, so I flashed it back to the latest beta. But this time, I unhooked the "auto" tickmark in the Zbootloader. This time the flash stopped at "download successful!!!" and then I unplugged the stick and reconnected it again... Voilá! Now it works and the blue light is on!!! :-D

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby rrohde » Sat Jan 02, 2016 0:56

Good to know! Thanks.
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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby Bourrinopathe » Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:24

Great! That's a happy ending! (or beginning ;) )
Thanks for reporting back. It may help other users.
(I'm wondering what that "auto" setting is for…)

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby Troll » Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:33

Yeah, I learn as I go... ;)

I think the "Auto" tick is an automatic reset of the stick after flashing. But when I leave this at auto, I get the error like in my pic. and the blue light won't come on after the flash. Stick still works as it should though.
When I left auto off, the flash process stops after the new firmware being downloaded to the stick. If I click the reset button in the Zbootloader I get the same error, but If I instead disconnect and reconnect the stick USB plug, effectively performing a reset, everything works just fine!

Same thing happens when flashing to 1.58, so It's not a beta firmware problem... And interesting to note that the "shut down" (my original problem) problem seems to be related to earlier firmware as it started once I flashed it back to 1.58. Still, this never happened in Win7, so it's probably related to Win10 as well. Compatibility issue?

Anyway, the good guys prevailed, once again! ;)

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby Lion 13 » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:06

What is the latest firmware for Black Mamba Limited Edition and where can I download

it?

Do I need to flash the NJOY32 first and then then the product firmware?

I was trying to resolve the gear and oil leds problem, when the stick went haywire,

to point where it would not was not recognized.e same message.
controller' an X-Box style controller is displayed. I did get a Mamba Fat firmware to load thn i got warnings to load the latest firmware.
I tried o

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby UIV » Sat Feb 06, 2016 16:55

Two days later, I will try to upload the firmware on our ftp.
No need to flash the NJoy32 firmware. Use only the firmware for Mamba.

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Re: Black Mamba stops working...

Postby Lion 13 » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:53

Thanks I look forward to downloading them, also can you provide Fat Mamba .cfg files that fix gear and oil leds.


Thanks for your help,

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