Today I turned on my Flashforge and it just started beeping, once every 3-4 seconds or so. The screen just shows the version type “sailfish” version and such, but just beeps and stays on that screen. I left it on for about 5 minutes, did it the whole time. Turned off and on several times, still same issue. Anyone run into this?
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Very strange! Did you have the sd card and computer connected when you turned it on?
Some possibilities:
* you’ve got a short somewhere, maybe where the cables flex, or perhaps the thermocouple is shorted to the heat block. You can check this theory by unplugging everything but the power from the main board.
* power problems. maybe you lost a capacitor in your power supply or one of your connectors is smoking out so you’re not getting full current and voltage to the mother board. As soon as the firmware starts doing anything real, reboots due to loss of power (too quick to notice on the LCD except maybe a flicker). You could check this by monitoring the voltage at the main board input with a multimeter while you watch it loop.
* firmware corruption. this one is usually if an update was killed part way through, can also be just a bad flash, but I supposed you could have the really rare random flipped bit in the flash memory. Not sure how to verify this is your problem, but you could try reflashing.
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