# GLD 80 boot failure to connect to DSP board **URL:** \ **Category:** GLD Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [26 April 2025 07:25 UTC](https://forums.allen-heath.com/t/gld-80-boot-failure-to-connect-to-dsp-board/26492 "2025-04-26T07:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jellykick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.allen-heath.com/jellykick/32/5385_2.png) [@jellykick](https://forums.allen-heath.com/u/jellykick)\ **Post date:** [16 June 2025 09:50 UTC](https://forums.allen-heath.com/t/gld-80-boot-failure-to-connect-to-dsp-board/26492/2 "2025-06-16T09:50:40Z")
You have to cold shutdown the console with the switch and then boot back up. It will usually keep running. We are talking about the problem here but have not reached the source yet. I think it"s a firmware edge case bug: > [@GLD 80 - Failed to connect to DSP board error.](https://forums.allen-heath.com/t/gld-80-failed-to-connect-to-dsp-board-error/15217/3): > > Your description fits my experience 10/10 — it matches exactly what’s happened to me, down to the details. For context, this has happened to me maybe five times over the past two years, always during soundchecks (so I’ve been lucky). I still haven’t figured out the exact cause. Just last week, I did an 8-band festival plus two other gigs back-to-back — no issues whatsoever. The console ran for 12 hours straight, under the hot sun, without a single problem. The last time this freeze happened, … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.allen-heath.com/t/gld-80-boot-failure-to-connect-to-dsp-board/26492)._