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booting issues.

Mike Prevette

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1 out of 8 times my camera boots it gets held up in some vicious voodoo booting cycle, and freezes with "booting..." on the back screen.

3 out of 4 times that happens, I let the camera sit and eventually the fans whir up and the camera power cycles itself and it comes back to life.

The other 1 time I have to powerdown, cycle the power button and remove all AKS. Then it comes back alive.

WHY? I know this thing is a powerhouse Linux but why can it not boot up EVERY time like my Mac?
 
I've had the same thing, not quite as often, but it's happened about 4 times now. I just shut it down, count to ten and boot up again. That seems to work, but still makes me nervous every time.
 
Seems lots of people encounter this. Most suggest to disconnect all AKS then try powering up. That seems to work.

Haven't had it happen to our cameras - yet, and I hope it doesn't. All ready to send one off for repair. Works like a dream now.

Kristina
 
Disconnect the monitor before you start-up. As soon as the camera is booting, you can connect it again. It has something to do with the shielding of the monitor-cable.
Cheers,
Joost
 
I've had this happen quite a lot as well. All I do is unplug the LCD and it boots up fine. Once it starts booting I plug the LCD in and away we go.
 
Happens to me about 30% of the time; I don't have to do any voodoo stuff like unplugging anything or whistling a sad tune while waiting for several seconds.

I just power down and immediately power up again and it always boots.

I did have one rather bizarre fault yesterday; upon hitting the power button the camera would immediately power back down. Happened 5 or 6 times in a row, then all normal again. Hope it's not a harbinger of things to come...

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
Power up question

Power up question

If you are seeing this - a practical recommendation is to wait ten seconds between power cycles.

If you don't then the camera may get into this boot up lock state, and then the resolution is to pull the power in LEMO and / or pull the LCD and try again.
 
Slinnn said:
Same question here.
I have the same booting problem sometimes, seems to be related to my LCD cable...
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In my case, it doesn't matter whether I attach anything to the camera when I boot up. The more tests I run in the last three days, the more conclusive I lean towards the fact that the camera would not cold start. Every time I leave the camera in the dead or frozen or recycle (whatever you call it) "booting..." mode and let it run by itself for 20 minutes; and wait for the camera body to heat up, I am able to reboot the camera SUCCESSFULLY.

It's not a real solution, just want to share my experience. Hope RED team can shed some light.
 
I'd second that it doesn't like to cold start. I once had a beautiful British car that had the same problem, I enjoyed it nevertheless once it came up, just like my Red.
But in my experience you don't need to wait 20 minutes, I can just power-cycle right away and it will always come up on second try. So, I conclude it's not heat that's needed, but there may be some place in the electronics where a charge needs to be built up, like a capacitor for example.

Hope this help.
 
nomad said:
But in my experience you don't need to wait 20 minutes, I can just power-cycle right away and it will always come up on second try. So, I conclude it's not heat that's needed, but there may be some place in the electronics where a charge needs to be built up, like a capacitor for example.
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It might not be heat related as you said. But one test showed that after 7 minutes of "dead booting" from cold, the camera still failed to boot up at reboot. In another test, the camera would boot up after a 10 minute "dead booting" from cold.

Not trying to draw any conclusion, just want to share some test results.
 
I have not been having any codec errors but I should report that I do have the boot failure problem several times a shoot. Yes a power cycle is all it takes but curious what is causing this and if it will be fixed...I am sure it will. best.
 
Stuart English said:
If you are seeing this - a practical recommendation is to wait ten seconds between power cycles.
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This doesn't resolve the issue. I saw the problem shooting with Haskell's camera where battery change-overs happened after the camera had been cold for 1-2 minutes. Maybe something to do with B16? :wink:
 
My mac freezes on bootup sometimes. The red does too. This has been happening since before build 16. I just get used to listening for the fan to die down. When I hear that I know I can walk away to do other stuff while it finishes the boot. If the fan doesn't die down within the time that it should, I just power down, wait ten seconds then power up again. It almost always boots up that time.
 
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