Help! My rockbox won't work.

[zekebox]

I flashed my Archos Recorder 15 with Rockbox 2.1 about 2.5 years ago. It has been working fine. A few days ago, I tried to upgrade the firmware to 2.5 but suddenly, some strange things occur.
symptoms:
1: The Rockbox 2.1 screen shows up at power on
2: followed by "dir buffer full" and no files show up.
3: I can still access settings screen by F1.
4: I can still aceess the hard drive via USB connection to a PC.
5: I am not able to boot to Archos firmware by Power-F1
6: Via PC connection, reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled the 2.5 upgrades, but I still get the "dir buffer full" message at power on. (The screen still says 2.1 as I did not reflash it.)

Help! Help!
Thanks
 

[TAC109]

1. You probably flashed 2.1, but have not yet flashed 2.5. Thus the 2.1 splash screen is showing at startup.

2. Press F1, General Settings, System, Limits, and make appropriate adjustments to  "Max Files in Browser" & "Max Playlist Size". "Max Files in Browser" should be set >= max number of entries of the largest directory.

You may like to use version 2.5.1 of Rockbox available at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockBox251
This corrects a charging issue in version 2.5, and has some other display improvements. Although this is an unofficial release many of us have been using 2.5.1 without problems.