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Having development board checked

AndreC
Intellectual 290 points

After a long battle I have given up with the developement board I'm using (DM6446).  It keeps on crashing after loading the kernel.  I use exactly the same kernel, and VM on a different (custom designed board), and everything works fine.  Is is possible to send the developement board to someone to check it, and also to restore it to its "factory default" or to the state that a brand new one should be in.  I got the board after someone has worked on it and I don't  know what the other people have done to it.  Unfortunately I am not experienced enough with these boards to be sure whether it is the user or the actual hardware giving the problem, but the fact that I can get similar boards going makes me think its the hardware.

So is there anyone I can ask to help check the board?  I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa but I'm sure I can post it to the USA if necessary.

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    TI__Mastermind 41665 points

    This is something you would probably want to run past Spectrum Digital, they manage the RMA processes and such, if anyone can find what is wrong with it they could, though I am not sure how much this would cost or if they will be able to do anything for a board that is not new with an 'out of the box' failure. I also could not say how this would be done from South Africa, but in general Spectrum Digital could tell you what could be done.

    If you want to try testing out the board yourself, there is a package of tests on Spectrum Digital's download site here which they call Davinci EVM Target Content. However these tests require Code Composer Studio (CCS) and an emulator to run, but if you could run them you may be able to narrow down better where the failure is.