[Elecraft] Newest P3 FW Upgrade (Workaround)

[Bill Frantz]

I just finished upgrading my P3 to MCU 1.26, SVGA 1.16 and FPGAx 
1.04. The MCU loaded OK but then it rejected the SVGA. I 
followed the instructions to power cycle the P3 (and K3 since 
that was the closest P3 power switch). I tried a full reload 
("Send all Firmware to P3") and it hung again. I power cycled it 
again, with a count to 10 while off and used "Send All New 
Firmware to P3" and it worked.

   MacOS 10.7.5
   Elecraft USB <--> RS232 adapter
   P3 utility 1.12.10.4 (Mac version)

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 3/1/13 at 3:10 AM, w4jbb at charter.net (Joel Black) wrote:

>Read almost all the posts and one stuck with me - the one who 
>stated everything worked fine on a Win7 machine using the same cable.
>
>On a lark, I started my Win 7 virtual machine through VMware, 
>downloaded and installed the P3 Utility, and connected to the 
>P3 - voila, it worked.
>
>This is going through the exact same machine, using the same 
>USB adapater with the USB adapter plugged into the same port. 
>In other words, I did not change a thing. This VMware machine 
>has caused me all kinds of grief and has only recently started 
>working somewhat reliably. However, it allowed me to load the firmware.
>
>The only thing different was the fact that I received FW 1.26 instead of 1.25.
>
>None of this answers why the FW load (either 1.24 or 1.25) 
>always stopped at the same point in the load on the Mac 
>version. I have no idea...
>
>Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>73,
>Joel - W4JBB
>
>On 2/28/13 5:43 AM, Joel Black wrote:
>>I absolutely cannot upgrade to the latest P3 FW (1.25). I had 
>>similar issues with 1.24, but it eventually loaded after 
>>several attempts.
>>
>
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