Howto restore Alpines stuck at the Bootloader.

A charged up HTC Alpine thats stuck in the SERIAL v1.01 screen
A 512Mb SD Memory Card, can't see this working with any other size.
A USB card reader on your PC that gives you a drive letter in My Computer
A copy of NTRW v2.00 (in archive)
A ROM image (in archive)

Finding a friend who's happy with DOS will be a great help!
DOS commands are in Courier Font to help differate

Step 1:
Charge the phone!
Personally I'd charge the battery in the big slot on the USB base.
Step 2:
Make sure the small slide switch is NOT on Lock
(slide it down towards teh metal teeth)
Place the SD Card into your Card Reader
(Cancel any pop-ups XP throws at you)

Step 3:
In My Computer find the SD Card
Write down what drive letter teh SD Card is
Righthand button and format the SD Card
*** MAKESURE its the 512Mb SD Card***

Step 4:
Press the Start button
Click Run...
Type CMD
Click [ OK ]

Step 5:
You are now using a DOS Prompt
Navigate to the place you unpacked the archive using the CD command

for example:
if you unpacked this onto your desktop...
( C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop )
then type the following
C:
CD "\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop"
DIR

Step 6:
Remember in step 3 I said to write down the SD Card's drive letter?
Well in the next step I'm presuming it's drive F:
If it's not drive F: then change the F: to whatever the SD Card is!

Step 7:
type NTRW write ALPINEROM.NB1 F:
(the write bit has to be in lowercase, the F: must be your SD Readers drive letter)

Step 8:
Wait!
If you're lucky your Card Reader will have a small light which will now be flickering.


C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop>NTRW write ALPINEROM.NB1 F:
NTRW v2.00
Removeable media
Cylinders: 0:61
TracksPerCylinder: 255
SectorsPerTrack: 63
BytesPerSector: 512
bufsize is 65536


Successful results will display the following!


507379712 bytes written bytes.
C:\Documents and Settings\Users\Desktop>


*** IF YOU GET ANY WEIRD ERRORS I'D HAZARD A GUESS
*** THAT YOUR SD CARD IS NOT THE SAME GEOMETRY AS THE ONE
*** I USED TO RIP THE IMAGE FROM THE PHONE ORIGINALLY
*** BORROW ANOTHER 512MB SD CARD
*** BACK IT UP AND TRY AGAIN FROM THE START
*** OR EMAIL ME ON CelticLo (at) deid (dot) net
*** AND I'LL SEND YOU CAN BUY A SD CARD OFF ME
*** WITH THE DATA ALREADY ON IT AND YOU CAN JUMP TO
*** STEP 10


Step 9:
Eject the SD Card from your Card Reader
On the SD Card slide the switch to Lock
(away from the metal teeth)

Step 10:
Take the charged mobile and turn it on
Place the SD Card in.
Do a Hard Reset
(Hold the Power button as you put the pen in the Reset hole)
Hopefully the screen will finally change from SERIAL V1.01 !!!
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Press the Power Key as instructed

Step 11:
Wait!
When the screen says CHECKSUM OK then
Do a Hard Reset
(Hold the Power button as you put the pen in the Reset hole)

Step 12:
Follow the usual Windows Mobile 2003SE prompts to start the phone!