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June 25th, 2011 - 13:12
Howdy!
Any chance you’ve come across a broken Cricut that had the issues I’m having which are:
Green power light comes on, 2 left most light columns stay solid on.
screen has 5-6 black boxes.
I’ve tried the resetting procedure and nothing.
Thanks in advance
chris
December 26th, 2012 - 10:07
Hello there. I just came across your blog. Do you still fix Cricut Expression 2 machines? If so, can I send mine to you?
December 26th, 2012 - 11:47
Sorry, the only ones I fix have been my own so far! Perhaps if you post your problem you may find someone else with the solution?
March 31st, 2013 - 00:07
Are you still hacking Circut hardware? I just picked up one of the 1st generation machines with firmware 1.0 and I’m trying and failing to get it to update it’s firmware.
March 31st, 2013 - 00:26
What happens when you try? Did you hold down the “stop” button while powering the machine on to get it into “upgrade” mode?
March 31st, 2013 - 13:05
I did, If I power the machine up without holding Stop down the feed motor spins, and I get one light on the keypad on, the LCD lights up and now with my ‘Fake George’ it tells me I have it loaded.
If I hold down STOP while powering up I get 10 keypad lights on and a beep with I want to say 9 black boxes on the unlit LCD.
In both cases my PC beeps to inform me I’ve connected a USB device.
The Firmware update in either Craft Room or Design Studio seems to fail within seconds and I’m not certain how to debug further at this point.
Do you have any suggestions? Have I got it into ‘Upgrade’ mode with the 10 lights lit?
Did you have any problems updating your 1.0 firmware machine?
April 1st, 2013 - 16:57
I’ve never actually done the upgrade on a Personal model, so unfortunately I don’t think I can help out here.
April 2nd, 2013 - 00:45
Bummer. Well thanks for responding. Maybe I’ll try and snag a broken unit off Ebay and see if I can swap the board or something. That or put freecut on it tho then I’m not sure what I’d control it with.