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Thank you very much to everybody! It worked on the first attempt after correcting the wiring. Much faster with the SD Card rather than flashing using the USB cable.
Carel, thanks for the pictures and detailed instructions.

Thanks! I crossed the wires (my mistake), I'll be doing as per your pictures.

Yes, I did the serial cross-connections wiring between the Adafruit FTDI Friend to the EXT terminals at the TXT Controller using my Windows 10 computer running PuTTY for opening a connection. But nothing, the PuTTY screen is black with the green dot waiting... As I said the USB port is totally dead ...

I did the connections, verified the 3,3V, powered the TXT Controller, seen the blue FT welcome screen, the led lights blue, then red and green and finally blue. Launched serial connection and no data. Nothing. Is it possible to flash the motherboard directly to the chipset? Can I disassemble the who...

Thanks Carel,

I'll try. Do you have any idea about the wiring to the txt?

My TXT controller died when upgrading to the firmware 4.7.0. The power button is flashing red. The USB port no longer works as the TXT controller has been fully deleted, therefore it doesn't have an OS to boot from. Is it there any way to flash or reinitialize the TXT controller from the scratch (ev...