[Elecraft] Fwd: K3 Failed DSP Firmware Download

[Grant Youngman]

It seems to be very few people that have a problem updating firmware.

And it's amazing that it still gets blamed on the Utility, the radio, file integrity, whatever.  Of course it could be any of these, but that isn't nearly as likely as a broken USB/RS232 driver.  Most of us have never had a problem that wasn't quickly resolved -- typically by ensuring that the drivers for the USB adapters are current and are properly installed.

The thing to do here is not to give up or update firmware 'once a year', but to clean up your PC (which if it's anything like mine, is probably a horrendous mess of stuff, corruptions in the Registry, who know what?), uninstall and clean reinstall the drivers (paying attention to the instructions), and do it again.  Punching buttons on the radio, or blaming it on not having a "real" RS-232 port or simply not solving the problem and then grumbling about it every time it doesn't work won't help much :-)

Grant/NQ5T




On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:54 AM, R. Kevin Stover wrote:

> I would.
> I don't now the inner workings of the utility but I assume there's
> something built in to check file integrity before the upgrade process.
> If not then that would be something to seriously think about adding.
> Easy enough to check MD5sums.