I really appreciate all the replies more than you know. I'm starting a new thread on this. Still having problems with this machine. I replaced the controller board and that fixed the control panel but now it won't come out of the CN mode and when we try to load firmware it say's code error.
Thanks for the help Doug James. It turned out to be the MSATA for me as well. I'll look to see if anyone has successfully cloned MSATA cards here.
I use HDD Raw Copy Tool along with a Apricorn mSATA Wire case to program blank mSATA cards from known good images. Sometimes I can bring a bad mSATA card back and install it in another machine and it will work so I can pull info off of it. I never copy or clone off of them though because I fear I might transfer some weirdness off of them.
It is hard to find new mSATA cards now so buying them from Sharp has been my only option lately.
I highly recommend cloning all machines to a flash drive whenever you are in front of them and attaching the flash drive somewhere on the machine. Then when a SD card, eSATA or HDD fails you can at least get it back to a fully functioning machine pretty quickly. I buy 512MB drives for around $2.10 each in 10 packs. Even if one out of ten comes in handy at some point I think it is well worth the money.
Here is a good link to follow up on these errors as well.
Interesting find: Msata cards
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