dp 8000 not booting

We were updating hog 3 from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.
Console software updated ok and working.
Dp2000 software updated ok and working.

Then the dp 8000 didn´t start to update.
So we tried forcing with pressing left button from dp8k when powerup. Nothing.
We ended up trying pressing all three buttons while powerup.
End result was that the dp8k isnt booting up any more at all.

If it is booted with all 3 buttons pressed the following happens:

First there is a lot of boot info runnning and eventually it goes to loop written below:

PXELINUX 3.71 3.71 Copyri
ght (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter
Anvin
Loading dp8000/vmlinuz-2.6
.26.5-dp.8k.....................
........................
Loading dp8000/intramfs-d
p87k_1.0_i386.cpio.gz........
.............................
.............................
....................
I/O Board Disconnected

At this point the Hog-Net Link light turns off and back on in approx 5 secs.


I/O Board Connected

And then dp goes back to beginnig of PXE... (loop above)


Then if is just turned on OR hard reseted (with center and right while poweron) a lot of info comes and everything stops to:

eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO

and then nothing...

Havent had similar problems previously.
DP8k worked just fine before this.

Any ideas? Running out of buttons to press while powerup...
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    cpogue is correct about the network setup. The settings he recommends should work in all cases. A single console with a crossover cable to the DP (It must be connected to the console port, the fixture port should not be connected to anything), default network setting, and DHCP & Boot server enabled.

    If a DP8000 gets a corrupt software update, it will make increasingly persistent attempts to reload. It will try again, then it will reboot and try again, then it will try and boot from the network and re-load the entire flash image (For those of you with an IT background, it uses the PXE protocol to boot from the network and completely reload the internal flash).

    If all of this still doesn't work, it will keep trying to boot from the network every two minutes until it finds a software server. That's why you see it sitting there scrolling the "connected" and "disconnected" messages repeatedly.
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    cpogue is correct about the network setup. The settings he recommends should work in all cases. A single console with a crossover cable to the DP (It must be connected to the console port, the fixture port should not be connected to anything), default network setting, and DHCP & Boot server enabled.

    If a DP8000 gets a corrupt software update, it will make increasingly persistent attempts to reload. It will try again, then it will reboot and try again, then it will try and boot from the network and re-load the entire flash image (For those of you with an IT background, it uses the PXE protocol to boot from the network and completely reload the internal flash).

    If all of this still doesn't work, it will keep trying to boot from the network every two minutes until it finds a software server. That's why you see it sitting there scrolling the "connected" and "disconnected" messages repeatedly.
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