Ater having his empeg stolen, my friend Dagolar purchased another one which had the dim display problem. He had already fixed another one and so he decided to try on this one as well. He replaced the fuse, and also tried to flash the empeg to v. 3.0 Alpha 11. Unfortunately, the upgrade process erases the old kernel but stops while programming the new one, and clearly the empeg does not boot.

Does anyone hve an idea of what could be going wrong? I don't even know if it can be related to the fuse replacement. What may be causing a kerne upgrade to fail?