Iriver H340 boot problem

[benton]

Hello everyone,

unfortunately my Player shows some weird behaviour. I changed the battery and harddrive, 60 gb,  a while ago and everything worked fine  .
After months the following occured: The Player didnt boot anymore but when plugging in the usb port and then plugging it off it started with rockbox. And most times I was able to boot a couple of times afterwards but not permanently.

Hmm - I think I somehow damaged the bootloader by switching firmware versions and/or bootloader versions.

I already tried to switch firmware versions and formated the harddrive and installed rockbox again - didnt help 


Also I did overwrite the eeprom, which helps and the player boots ,but only once, the original iriver software.

I am really at a loss here because I love this player but I cant fix this booting problem....
If anybody might have a clue - please let me know.

P.s: currently I am using firmware 1.29E

[bluebrother]

Sounds more like a hardware failure related to the Play button to me. Also, have you checked the filesystem?

[benton]

Hello bluebrother,

the drive is formatted in Fat 32.

I dont think the buttons are the problem. The player booots for example (for once) when overwriting eeprom and once booted all buttons work fine 

Any ideas what to do? At the moment the player is reliably bootable only when plugged to usb   

Thanks for any ideas!

[bluebrother]

the drive is formatted in Fat 32.

The only file format you can use is FAT32. Have you checked the filesystem as in checked it for errors? On Windows use chkdsk /f

[benton]

Hello,

chdsk done - no errors.

Player boots with usb / power when plugging off.
But then it most times doesnt boot. And if it  then only once. Thats my description at the moment 
 

help still needed   

[benton]

I finally solved the problem 

I still dont know about the cause of the problem but accidently I noticed that the Iriver boots properly if the player automatically shuts down, as is not shut down via the stop button. So for me I let the player shut down automatically and everything works fine