ive seen this before. in fact, i spent an hour or two fixing it. same error. same symtoms. it was fixed by replacing the flash =( you can get that error when your flash is screwy. replace it, i would say that continuing to troubleshoot is a waste of your time... -----Original Message----- From: anyong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Physicaliy disable Cisco 8M flash (Write Protect) [7:11642] Hi Group, My friend send me a weird 8M flash memory which is write protected. I put show ver I can see it is read/write. I put one original flash and one weird flash on 2503 and write a 10M IOS on it, The first 8M can been downloaded from the tftp server but on to the weird flash error occurred "%Error: System flash write protected %Error: System flash location 0x3000240 - wrote 0x48E7FFFC, read 0xFFFFFFFF" The router display there it has 16M flash read/write. Does anyone know how to disable or enable the joint on the flash? Thanks for any input. anyong Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=11739&t=11642 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

