DOA!!! Not a Happy Bunny < bricked firmware? Resolved>

[jhnmdahl]

I installed with Windows 11 and everything worked fine. I suspect there's more going on somewhere. Glad you got it resolved!

[cnckeith]

Hi All
OK I have now resolved the issues.
I had to purchase a new BBG and then flash it etc. The supplied one was definately DOA!
There is a possibility that the root cause of my problems come from Windows11 which realy does not want to play ball with this BBG system.
There is a real issue here going forward in that Win10 is ending support soon and folks will all be pushed intlo 11 only.
The only way I could do all the steps sucsesfully is with Windows10.
I think ther should be a prominent caution in all the setup info, and on the forum not to try using Win11.

I think there may be a posibility tha Win11 will work with the main software once everything has been setup in 10??

It's not been a good experianc so far but lets hop the future working with the system will be good

I hope some of my comments will be helpfull to others.

John

thanks for the feedback. glad you got it sorted.
fyi, we have thousands of win11 installations running.

I invite you to make a build thread, here is how.
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=6928

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