Originally Posted by Ian
It is thankfully nearly impossible to permanently 'brick' most (all?) Meridian devices simply by performing a firmware update. I managed it, but only as a result of a controller board failure which required a return trip to Meridian to fix.

Normally, firmware updates are handled by the BIOS, which is independent of the firmware, so is always available no matter how screwed the firmware update is.

If a device does not complete an update resulting in the unit being 'bricked', repeatedly retrying to the update should eventually result in the unit being restored to a good state.

I agree. I think the only time anyone ever bricked anything was because it was already essentially bricked due to some hardware failure.

It can take a few passes sometimes due to latency on some computers.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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