Solid blue led on wkf: completely dead?

[keropi]

Hiya!
this gc mod is giving me all sorts of troubles... was working fine until I decided to swiss-autoboot it... bricked it and used 1.2 recovery successfully. But after a while it stopped responding, now the blue led is solid ON upon boot and after a while you get the red error screen.
Checked connections, checked voltages, replaced pin29 switch , no dice. It won't even recognize the recovery SD.
I can't see how the actel bootloader could be so corrupt that the recovery iso won't load at all... what I know is that
a. I got a verify error on 1.5 upgrade (but not on 1.2 recovery)
b. I don't trust the source I got it from, there was an "OK" written on the wkf's little bag but it was not sealed.

I'm all out of ideas, before I order another from megalomaniac, is there a chance I restore this? Is this a common "bad install" error or is it dead? It was working before I started updating/downgrading.
TIA for any info!

[megalomaniac]

Most likely it's still working fine and only has a loose wire somewhere..
Check the new switch to make sure pin29 has GND

If that's not the issue then check all the other 20 something wires...

[keropi]

thanks, gonna check them for good when I hopefully get some stuff from you... done messing with the gc atm because any more tinkering and the magic smoke will get out... LOL

[Drakon]

Yeah I said this in the other thread. My wiikey fusion had a solid blue light and crashed during the verify part of updating to 1.5 firmware too. I redid my soldering and all these problems magically went away. You may have connections to the right spots but maybe something is bridged somewhere.