Thread: physically fixing the WSOD
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2007-09-03 , 15:21
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Originally Posted by ddalex View Post
Checking the sources in kernel, I have reason to believe that the issue should be fixed in software in the latest OS2006 release. At some point in display init code there is a comment about going in wrong sequence would physically destroy the hardware...
This is unlikely. Units are now shipped with latest FW and it still happens. Also display is enabled already in bootloader, not in linux kernel. That's why you see nokia logo before even kernel loads and you can also see usb icon and progress bar when flashing the firmware (which is also in bootloader, you can flash and/or load linux kernel at that time). Kernel explicitly checks on boot whether display is already enabled so it won't corrupt nice logo and screen contens and give you smooth booting experience :-)

So if there is some fix it must be in bootloader But most probably it is not fixed and cannot be done in software (i.e happens too early on poweron and really is HW issue).
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