try a reflash of the SD/ EMMC
although i have had my laptop xrayed before with no ill effects


On 9/23/2015 9:10 AM, acheesehead wrote:
> It was packaged in a metallic enclosure with D38999 connectors with
> protective plastic caps. Should have been immune to ESD. Worked fine
> before the trip, but when I got to my destination, it had funny
> behavior. When I got back home, it was even worse. It was in my
> checked in luggage on the way back. Luckily, I have spares.
>
> On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 7:43:36 PM UTC-6, Przemek Klosowski
> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39 AM, acheesehead <[email protected]
>     <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>         I went through security with one and TSA thought it was
>         suspicious. They put it under the X-Ray machine and stared at
>         it for about a minute. It has been confused since then.
>         Sometimes boots, sometimes not. While a brief exposure is
>         probably OK. A prolonged exposure might fry something.
>
>     Well, normally, ionizing radiation can only change charge states
>     in internal electrical nodes, i.e. flip bits in memory and
>     internal CPU/chipset logic. In other words, it can't damage
>     anything permanently.
>
>     Theoretically, very high energy Xrays could disrupt crystalline
>     structure within the chips, i.e. damage them permanently, but it
>     requires energy and intensity much larger than that of an airport
>     Xray machine. Whatever your problems are, it's not because of the
>     Xray scan---did the TSA folk touch/handle the BBB? if so, they
>     could have zapped it with static discharge, which is much deadlier
>     than Xrays.
>
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