Download Miracle Driver Installation 1.00
Lianne Mccance
I just unboxed my new Dell X1052P switch. I got into the GUI and first updated the boot code to 1.00.17 rebooted the switch and it was happy. It came right up. Then I loaded firmware 3.00.70 and then selected and rebooted the switch with that firmware. I left it alone for about 20-30 minutes and came back to the activity light flashing green rapidly. Looked it up in the manual and it says that it's booting. So I gave it another 10 minutes and nothing happened. I had no network port lights. So I power cycled it (rookie move maybe..but I needed to keep moving). Now it powers on the fans spin up completely and the System Locator light is solid blue. I tried plugging in the USB console before I power cycled it and couldn't get anything to come up.
Is there a way to get into the boot loader on this to try to reload the firmware? I can't seem to get the USB interface to work in putty. I installed the USB COM driver and I have an active COM port (COM3) but nothing comes up.
For some reason that escapes me, after having no issues with Xorg previously (I was able to run it without issue for about a fortnight on this same laptop) after I rebooted the last time it simply will not run. This surprises me especially seeing how no updates related to NVIDIA, my kernel, mesa, etc. had occurred since my last reboot. My Xorg.0.log file is here, I have tried switching my graphics driver from NVIDIA to nouveau, in the hope of an inexplicable miracle, then rebooted (after adding nouveau to the modules listed in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerating the kernel image, which made no difference) but it made no difference. I also tried (when I was still using the NVIDIA driver) regenerating my xorg.conf file with nvidia-xconfig per the Wiki. Here is the output of lspci -k, the most relevant line to my graphics issues is likely: