[Elecraft] STRANGE PROBLEM

[Tony Nightingale]

Hi,
 I own a K3 which seems to have developed a major problem.     I had not
 used the K3 for just over six months due to pressure of work and when I
 decided to fire up again I decided to upgrade the firmware before 
starting to operate.

I cleared all of the Elecraft software from 
my computer and started from scratch.   I downloaded the latest version 
of the utility then downloaded the new Beta version of the firmware.  
The instalation seemed to go fine but when I did a restart by switvhing 
the radio off then back on I found the following:-

The band switch does not work.
The
 mode switch does not alter the modes but the test side changes the 
antenna from one to two and back.  there is no menu the ant switch  puts
 on the noise reduction and the rx/ant switch puts on the noise blanker.
The press
 functions on the shift, width, speed/mic, cmp/pwr does not work.  
I cannot change vfo's and all of the pad buttons either do not work r they do things that they ought not do.
if I press scan I go into Vox.
the CWT switch alters between CMP and PWR
ATUTUNE button alters the AGC
the XMIT button switches the preamp on or off.

I have tried to install an older version of the firmware but it does not cure any of the problems.

The radio is number 1508

Please can you advise??

Tony Nightingale G3ZPU