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Christopher Soames

K3 Forcing a Firmware Download

Page 45 of the K3 manual gives me 4 points to Forcing a Firmware Download.
I have tried this many times to no avail.
The screen stays MCU LD with back light off with the TX Led flashing.
No matter what I do nothing changes.
I believe the problem may be seeing the Com Port or not seeing it as
the case may be.
At the moment the K3 is as good as scrap metal any help in bringing it
back to its former glory would be most appreciated.

Chris G0TZZ

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Regards from

Chris Soames
G0TZZ
email :-
[hidden email]
www.norfolkamateurradio.org

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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: K3 Forcing a Firmware Download

Chris,

What happens when you instruct K3 Utility to "Test Communications" -
click on the "Port" tab to get to the proper screen.

Test Communications greyed out? That says either the port selected does
not exist, has its cable unplugged, or communications with the K3 cannot
be established (the latter may be a K3 fault).

If that is the condition you have, it must be fixed first before you can
proceed.
If you have substantiated that the computer serial port is OK, then you
can conclude the K3 is at fault and an email to [hidden email]
is in order.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 7/10/2011 2:42 PM, Christopher Soames wrote:

> Page 45 of the K3 manual gives me 4 points to Forcing a Firmware Download.
> I have tried this many times to no avail.
> The screen stays MCU LD with back light off with the TX Led flashing.
> No matter what I do nothing changes.
> I believe the problem may be seeing the Com Port or not seeing it as
> the case may be.
> At the moment the K3 is as good as scrap metal any help in bringing it
> back to its former glory would be most appreciated.
>
> Chris G0TZZ
>

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Dick Dievendorff

Re: K3 Forcing a Firmware Download

In reply to this post by Christopher Soames

Chris: Please check K3 Utility Help on "Troubleshooting - MCU Load". It has
a step by step procedure to recover from this situation.

Start the K3 Utility.
Help Menu
K3 Utility Help
In the "Contents" tab on the left side Click the + signs next to K3 Utility
Help and under that, Troubleshooting, and under that "MCU Load failure".

Go through those steps....

73 de Dick, K6KR

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Christopher Soames
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:42 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Forcing a Firmware Download

Page 45 of the K3 manual gives me 4 points to Forcing a Firmware Download.
I have tried this many times to no avail.
The screen stays MCU LD with back light off with the TX Led flashing.
No matter what I do nothing changes.
I believe the problem may be seeing the Com Port or not seeing it as the
case may be.
At the moment the K3 is as good as scrap metal any help in bringing it back
to its former glory would be most appreciated.

Chris G0TZZ

--
Regards from

Chris Soames
G0TZZ
email :-
[hidden email]
www.norfolkamateurradio.org

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Mike Reublin

Re: K3 Forcing a Firmware Download

And note that power must be disconnected, not merely turned off.

73, Mike NF4L

On 7/10/2011 3:08 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> Chris: Please check K3 Utility Help on "Troubleshooting - MCU Load". It has
> a step by step procedure to recover from this situation.
>
> Start the K3 Utility.
> Help Menu
> K3 Utility Help
> In the "Contents" tab on the left side Click the + signs next to K3 Utility
> Help and under that, Troubleshooting, and under that "MCU Load failure".
>
> Go through those steps....
>
>
> 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Christopher Soames
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:42 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Forcing a Firmware Download
>
> Page 45 of the K3 manual gives me 4 points to Forcing a Firmware Download.
> I have tried this many times to no avail.
> The screen stays MCU LD with back light off with the TX Led flashing.
> No matter what I do nothing changes.
> I believe the problem may be seeing the Com Port or not seeing it as the
> case may be.
> At the moment the K3 is as good as scrap metal any help in bringing it back
> to its former glory would be most appreciated.
>
> Chris G0TZZ
>
> --
> Regards from
>
> Chris Soames
> G0TZZ
> email :-
> [hidden email]
> www.norfolkamateurradio.org
>
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