RoboRIO 2 unrecoverable error doesn't disappear

[SaVa_dazo]

We bought a new RoboRIO 2 that arrived late January, to use it this season, but after a match, we turned on our robot, only to see that the RIO had the Status LED blinking constantly. We tried reflashing our RoboRIO with balenaEtcher a couple of times, and nothing worked. We tried with different dongles for the MicroSD, different USB-B cables and we still couldn't see the RoboRIO in the imaging tool.

Someone knows a way to fix this error?

[mshafer]

Hi SaVa_dazo, thanks for posting on the forums. I'm Matthew with NI.

Is it continuing to blink the Status constantly?

Have you tried a different SD card?

[mshafer]

Other thought, what programming language are you using?

If LabVIEW, are you deploying the code from the project? ("running" the code from robot main.vi won't persist across a reboot).

[SaVa_dazo]

yes, it's still blinking.
We tried from multiple SD cards, and nothing...
when we connect the RIO to a computer, windows isn't recognizing it.

Also, we're using Java, but we have also used LabVIEW previously on the RIO

[mshafer]

One other thing to try is re-flashing the SD card using Raspberry Pi imager: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/zero-to-robot/step-3/roborio2-imaging.html

Also, a few teams have gotten tripped up on which file to provide to the imager. Make sure to navigate down to to the SD images directory.

[SaVa_dazo]

We tried using both BalenaEtcher and RPI imager with no success.

And yeah, we were using the correct SD file.

[mshafer]

I sent you a private message on next steps.