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Do not install VCDS 23.x or 24.x. Stick to (or 22.10 for some clones). Install it inside a Windows 10 Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) with USB passthrough. If the VM gets bricked, restore a snapshot.

I dumped the existing firmware to a file on my desktop. Opening it in a hex editor revealed the problem immediately. The vector table—the map of where the code starts—was corrupted. A few bytes here, a few bytes there... likely a voltage spike during a bad update attempt had scrambled the brain. vcds 2231 hex v2 clone repair better