Unable to boot without using rcm mode

Voidz918

Noob Account
Mar 18, 2019
4
1
Germany
Basically after flashing my stock NAND to prepare for the 7.X update with the 2.6 beta the switch no longer boots normally. I've tried uninstalling autorcm multiple times however a reboot always results in a blank screen. The only thing that works it shutting it off and using the rcm jig to get back into the boot menu.

Had 6.2 (updated from stock 5.1 with choi)
Made an Emunand still on 6.2 hidden partition separate sd card
Flashed the clean 5.1 and disabled auto rcm
After that I always get a blank screen on boot.
Main concern is I don't want to leave the boot.dat file on the micro sd for when I play my legit games.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 

Voidz918

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Mar 18, 2019
4
1
Germany
I can go back to 6.2 but won’t that mean I can’t update the official way without risking a ban? Also I can get into the 5.1 official firmware but only through the sx os menu couldn’t I just update officially through that?
 

NexNus

Senior Member
Feb 18, 2019
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18
hell
was there any point where you removed auto rcm after updating to 6.2 with choi?

If going back to 6.2 fixes the problem, it means you burnt some efuses somehow (turning off auto RCM possibly) while on 6.2.

after that you should be fine to update using official servers as long as you dont have any risky stuff installed to the nand (like custom/homebrew NSP's, games you dont own or dont exist officially)
 
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Voidz918

Noob Account
Mar 18, 2019
4
1
Germany
Yeah I think at some point I must've booted into stock while using auto rcm and burnt the fuses. In the end I booted into stock through the sx os boot menu, swapped out the sd while it was booting and updated through the official servers. After that everything was working just fine.

Im worried about bans because I do at some point want to use online features, I'm well aware of the risk, just figured that with sx os Emunand I'd actually have a way of playing online and doing other things while on emunand.

Thanks for the help.