[Elecraft] Newest P3 FW Upgrade (Workaround)

[Stephen Prior]

It took me three attempts, failing on the SVGA load the first two times,
even after switching both K3 and P3 off and then on.

I don't know whether this is significant but I had the SVGA disabled (I
have no monitor connected at the moment) the first two times but then
decided to turn it back on and the SVGA loaded okay  - it could have been
coincicidence of course.  I had similar issues last upload as well which is
very much in contrast to the troublefree uploads I have done on the K3 and
KX3 over the years.

73 Stephen G4SJP


On 5 March 2013 06:03, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> 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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