okay well hey i bought the rotuer used was working fine till me budy logged into it through the serial hyperterminal and typed somethign like
confreg 0x3578
since then its been hosed doesnt load the bootstrap at all breaks dont work and all that is displayed on the screen is garble even if i turn it off and on.. garble like so
JJJJJ(((#@#$&&&&&&&&&HHHHHHHHHH
thats pretty much what it does diffrent symbols each time though and yes already reseated all chips on the board..
if neccesary i can provide a screenshot and i am connected through the serial that i am positive of something has hosed the bootstrap and all i need to know is how to recover it.. and im not talking th eIOS image i am talking about the bootstrap..
If you are directly consoled into the router, could you go ahead and open a new hyperterminal session with these settings:
Bits per second: 1200 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop Bits: 1 Flow control: None
Once this is open, powercycle the router and press the spacebar for like 10 seconds (press and release) if you are able to see the rommon prompt, change the register back to normal by typing:
rommon>confreg 0x2102 rommon>reset
if you are not able to see anything on the screen, close the window and open a new one with these settings:
Bits per second: 9600 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop Bits: 1 Flow control: None
And you should now see the rommon> prompt change the register from there. And router should be back in normal mode.
okay fellas i would jsut like to give the gold metal to covenant hes is the man that gave the correct awsner to the problems and has fixed my router issue its up and runing..