[Elecraft] Newest P3 FW Upgrade (Workaround)

[Bill Frantz]

For the record, my SVGA was on all the time.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 3/5/13 at 12:41 AM, eastbrantwood at gmail.com (Stephen Prior) wrote:

> 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
> >
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