I think ive Bricked my MK4
 

Hi everyone, Dont know where to start :yikes: :banghead: :bawling: :bawling: ok here goes...

I purchaced an 29.1 update on ebay, and used it in my mates bmw mk4, worked a treat so when i finally got my mk4 that wasn't the case. i put the car in 1st ignition, waited 2mins for everything to stabalize then i opened the boot and took out the 2004-1 dvd and put the update in. the the screen said, as normal it's in progress and will update my unit. (oh lord:( ) the screen went blank and stayed like that for 20mins well until i got out the seat went to the boot and saw the power light is no longer active, only the eject symbol was active. so i pressed it and the disc came out, but now nothing, absolutely nothing, other than a black screen with a subtle white background. ive downloaded 29.1 updates from here and the mk4 laughs at me, by making a few little noises like its gonna fire up then stops. Someone please tell me i havn't bricked it and to throw it in the bin.....I'm now back at square 1 on stuck me mk3 back in.... all that for pespective view aye .......

jay

The MkIV is much harder to "brick" then the MkIII. Make sure you have a good working OS disk and keep trying to load it. Good chance it will eventually take and you'll be in business.

Simmilar thing happend to me when i tried uppdate with cdrw, so i made new cdr when inserted it took looooooong before anything came upp about software uppdate but it finished fine and everything working fine now, try burn another cdr or clean the one you have


Good Luck

i did try that but nothing. i am using tdk cd-r80 to burn on i reckon ive blown it

does anyone want a bricked mk4 before i throw it at it??????

Sure, I'd take a crack at recovering it.

i can guarantee you it'll make u grab a cold beer out the fridge and the next day go to dealership asking for a new car. lol i can't even sleep anymore, as i keep trying the stupid thing at 3am aaaaaaaaargh

Smoked my share!
 

:yikes: D4rkchocolate I smoked a MK3 unit before trying to update it... eventually I sold it for $100 bucks! Ouch!

to make it worse mines a mk4

ok does anybody know where there is a mk4 specialist in the uk that takes on repairs?? i'm very much convinced that no cd can get this thing running again.....or the address for the vdo siemans place in germany i can send it to???

Yes, I do. I'll PM you. Jochen

I think it is strange that it went that wrong with only uppdate ?
Could it be that your car had monocrome display from factory so you nead edited software in order to make it work with color screen.
I thnk i have seen this issue on the forum somwhere
i think it is worth a try

yeah really strange, but its definatly not the monocrome issue as it was the colour machine to begin with

Jay,

Are you still planning to drop by this week????

Andy.

d4rkchoco:

I had the same EXACT symptom as you described. here is something you can try and see if it works. the MK4 has two lasers, one for DVD and one for CD. In my case, trying to load the OS with a CD had problems and my guess is that the CD laser was faulty. I never knew since I mostly put DVDs in the system. So, what i did was copy the CD content and made a data DVD disc w/ the navigation OS. I then inserted the DVD instead... and it started booting up and updated itself to v29.1.

I had the same exact symptoms... the power light was out, but i could hear the unit spinning the disc inside. I think the MK4 has enough firmware on it that as long as you give it good data on a disc it can read, i.e., the laser for the disc is working... it should be able to recover.

Try that before you give up.. and if it works out, send me a bottle of wine ;)

fingers x'ed bro

d4rkchoco: hope it works out... let us know how it goes..

d4arkchoc: updates?