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Originally Posted by FalconFour
Strange, I never once had an Arduino bootloader crap itself. I have toasted an ATmega328 chip though, in trying to build a etch-it-yourself Arduino board and having some traces crossed... but in the several hundred times I've flashed the chip, and the almost-like-a-year-now I've had my mpguino (flashed with the Arduino bootloader), it's not once crapped itself, not even rebooted (hence the working clock)  |
again, in my experience, it seems to be more likely when powering it up, especially if you are not real deliberate with the application of power. You have this blob of code that is sitting around for several seconds, expecting a very few number of bits to trigger a flash clobbering. You don't have to google very far to see that corrupted bootloaders is a genuine issue, despite whatever conditions you might be using.
I did not have much problem reproducing the issue with a bootloader. I have yet to be able to reproduce it without a bootloader (despite trying very hard).