Trying to unbrick base.

[SimonB]

I had a problem where the phone stopped working. My first step was to reboot the base, but once it was powered back up, the handset couldn't find it and I couldn't access the web admin UI.

I checked my router, and it did not appear to be taking an IP address from the DHCP server.

To try and bring it back to life, I followed the recovery guide I found on this forum, (via Tftpd32). However if I power up the basestation, only the power LED is lit and it does not obtain an IP address (as shown in the "DHCP Server" tab in Tftpd32).

If I power up the basestation while holding down the paging button, all three LED's light up and I see W5X.bin and W5X.rfs get transferred:

Code:

Connection received from 192.168.0.100 on port 1142 [30/12 15:53:57.069]
Read request for file <W5X.bin>. Mode octet [30/12 15:53:57.069]
OACK: <timeout=5,blksize=1468,> [30/12 15:53:57.069]
Using local port 61578 [30/12 15:53:57.069]
<W5X.bin>: sent 1032 blks, 1514044 bytes in 0 s. 0 blk resent [30/12 15:53:57.849]
Connection received from 192.168.0.100 on port 2047 [30/12 15:53:57.989]
Read request for file <W5X.rfs>. Mode octet [30/12 15:53:57.989]
OACK: <timeout=5,blksize=1468,> [30/12 15:53:57.989]
Using local port 58749 [30/12 15:53:57.989]
<W5X.rfs>: sent 5715 blks, 8388608 bytes in 5 s. 0 blk resent [30/12 15:54:02.279]

However the "DHCP Server" tab still doesn't show anything and the W52P.rom file is not transferred.