Vive BaseStation red blinking light fix wont work

[Disguised Automaton]

So i have 1 base station 1.0, and just earlier i got the problem of the red blinking light, i do the fix for it and when i relaunch Steamvr, the base station wont detect anything and when i update the base station, the base station gets the red blinking light again.

[Bob Loblaw]

The firmware "fix for it" doesn't work, just makes it not test itself but it's still out of spec. Sell it for parts and replace it with a new one.

[Bob Loblaw]

Here's something though. The 1.0 base stations have a plastic beam spreader hot-glued into each the rotating drums. They can work their way out over time. First, the loosening might cause an increase in noise, like mine did after 4.5 years. I assume that would have caused a red fault if I had updated my firmware, which I never did. Tracking from that lighthouse was nauseating . A few days later the lens flew out completely, I heard it in the middle of the night and my tracking from that base station was done for.

There's a couple videos on opening and repair. You can epoxy it back into place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjjVqgSDRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsQs6fZExY