anyone who has read my thread here, will know my troubles of flashing. Long story short, i removed the winbond chip and reprogrammed it with bootloader and soldered back in and this got me back to a state where i could flash the box. i must reiterate that the usb sticks i am using are not an issue here. I cant get andy mc donalds image to flash past the bootlogo and can only flash a stock image succesfully once in about 15 times, when flashing it will change from flash to boot so quickly it does not give you time to pull it out before it starts the flash process again, to remedy this i changed the force file to noforce and when i flash it then it will change to USB after flashing...i do not take it out or switch off box, it just changes itself to boot then starts loading....once loaded i can navigate the menu setting etc to set up box but after about 5 minutes it locks up and freezes..so i power off and on but then it reverts back to boot.
Is the image stored on the winbond chip where bootloader is stored ?...the winbond chip is the original relfashed...could this be a dodgy chip and worthy of getting a new replacement one ?..either way the box is not well....it is certainly not the usb sticks or images i am using.