TBC2 mk1 after firmware update 1.0.3 dark/dead (solution: SD-card trouble)

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…sorry for the noise - with the help of this thread

TBC2 - Black screen after resetting firmware

(Posting in case it can be resolved and can help someone else in the future) I accidentally pressed ‘Reset Firmware’ on the TBC2. After it finished erasing, there was a prompt to restart - I pressed the confirm/yellow button but think it was frozen as nothing happened for a couple of minutes, so I powered down - Now, after powering back up, the TBC2 won’t show anything on the display. I’ve tried loading the boot.bin file to an SD card and holding down the ‘Boot from SD’ button on the back of t…

i was able to boot from an Transcend 4GB card - the recommended Sandisk 16GB card did not work (photo shows also a 16GB Transcend, but only the 4GB is working):