Frank, I've been experimenting with the garbage screen problem.

If I install the 1.01 .upgrade file (in my case, developer 1.01 but I don't think it matters), then do a power-pull after the upgrade, everything is fine after that.

But if I install RJlov's volume adjustment kernel after that, then I get the garbage screen with every soft restart after a logo flash. I don't know if RJlov's kernel is the cause or if that's just a coincidence.

It is possible that the test version of my upgrade.exe did something bad, since I was blindly sending "monkey-see-monkey-do" packets to the serial port. Attached to this message is another version of upgrade.exe that does the absolute minimum necessary to reboot the unit. Could you do me a favor?

What I'd like you to do is:
Install consumer 1.1, full-power-cycle the unit, use this new upload.exe to send a logo, and then tell me if your garbage screen problem is gone. Would that be OK?

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Tony Fabris