[Elecraft] Bricked my K3 as well

Hisashi T Fujinaka htodd at twofifty.com
Fri Dec 26 19:19:36 EST 2014


That fixed things. The Help had more info and a different reset
procedure than in Fred's book: holding down power for 10 seconds. That
and a different laptop seem to have let me reload the beta firmware.

On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> K3 Utility Help, Trouble shooting MCU Load Failure covers this.
>
> Dick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Hisashi T Fujinaka
> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 1:35 PM
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] Bricked my K3 as well
>
> It's dead. I have it in MCU load mode with the TX light blinking and "MCU
> LD" on the display. I can't get communications test to work. Using the
> latest utility, trying Mac w/latest driver, Windows 7 with the latest
> driver, about to try Linux.
>
> Tried several different cables.
>
> Anything else I forgot?
>
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> Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
> BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee
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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee


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