Hi
I am really happy to see my Sample Pack board to boot again from on board flash - in my attempt to reprogram it I did manage to burn (with a small hole on top of the IC package) all the onboard power supply and to partially damage the strataflash on board. and when attempting to check the flash using universal scan my FPGA based PCI Cable III burned completly as well.
so I ended up desoldering a TSOP56 flash from Avent Virtex4LX25 board and replacing the damaged flash on the sample pack board.
and shortly after that the board did reboot again from the configuration programmed into the flash.
the "standalone flash programmer for the sample pack board" will be available shortly.
if anyone needs it already now, please email me
to my best efforts I did not manage to programm the flash using the 'approuch' suggested in the sample pack manual, maybe other are more lucky, but I have given up, or better waiting for EDK 8.1 or the webcase solution
Antti PS I wonder that the free Spartan3e Sample Pack doesnt seem to be available in Europe? (only in north america and asia/pacific)