Sorry for the long delay. I finally had a chance to probe around the main board and see what is going on around the RAM and Flash memory and the CPU. Here are my findings but I cannot draw any conclusion as to whether the RAM chips are blown or the flash memory is blown or the firmware is corrupted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Specially if someone with AFG3021 or AFG3022 could probe around the pins and let me know how my findings are different than his/her working unit.
On BOTH of the two Micron CMOS RAMs (both are x16)
CKE, DQML, DQMH, CS, WE, CAS, RAS pins are all HIGH (constant 3.3V)
BA0,BA1 and address lines A7-A11 are LOW (constant)
Address A0-A6 are active (live signal)
On U208 (left IC) I/O data lines are ALL stuck at LOW (no activity)
On U204 (right IC) I/O data lines DQ0-DQ7 are live (active) but DQ8-Dq15 are all HIGH (seems more like Hi-Z)
As you can see all the controling signals on both chips are exactly the same but they are showing different data on the I/O data lines
Specially the CS is stuck at HIGH, too!
On the FLASH memory:
CE1, CE2, BYTE# pins are LOW
CE0 pin however is live and active, so is A0 pin
also A1-A8 pins are live (ctive) but A9-A23 are all stuck at low. But I don't think its unusual
VPEN pin #15 is stuck at HIGH and that worries me the most :-(
RP pin is HIGH
WE pin is HIGH
OE pin is live (active signal)
All I/O data lines DQ0-DQ7 are live and active but DQ8-DQ15 are HIGH
I will attach the datasheets for both chips
It is very hard to probe the CPU pins but I could see that it is active and for example address lines A0-A8 have activity
any idea on how to proceed is greatly appreciated