K3 Froze

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[Bill K9YEQ]

Have you tried restarting the PC as well, or can't you get the K3 to work,
after the reset?

Bill
K9YEQ


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of David Carlson
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 5:46 PM
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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Froze

My K3 froze up while downloading in The K3 utility program. The LED shows
"MCU LD" and the red TX light is blinking under the power switch. I can not
turn the power off with the power switch. I have to turn off the power
supply. The K3 utility program can not communicate with the K3  so I can't
reinstall the firmware code, however the P3 utility program can connect. I
have tried turning off the K3 and then turning it back on holding the
"shift/lo" button to reset. That does not work. I did download the latest K3
utility program.  

Any suggestions?  Thanks
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[The Smiths]

Turn off the utility program.  Un plug the power from the P3, disconnect the RS232 cable from the P3 and place it in the K3 directly.  If that doesn't work, go to your Device manager in the control pannel.  Open ports, and reconfigure the Com Port your using to run at 38.4K baud rate.. That WILL work.  Hope this helps.
If you require further help let me know.
 

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> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:46:29 -0700
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> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Froze
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> My K3 froze up while downloading in The K3 utility program. The LED shows "MCU LD" and the red TX light is blinking under the power switch. I can not turn the power off with the power switch. I have to turn off the power supply. The K3 utility program can not communicate with the K3 so I can't reinstall the firmware code, however the P3 utility program can connect. I have tried turning off the K3 and then turning it back on holding the "shift/lo" button to reset. That does not work. I did download the latest K3 utility program.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks
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[Alan Bloom]

Hi David,

If you haven't got it running by now, the key to recovering from this is
to first terminate the K3 Utility program and then cycle power on the K3
while making sure the P3 does not turn on.  (The easiest way to do that
is to pull the power cable on the P3.)  Then fire up K3 Utility again
and you should be able to download firmware to the K3.

There is no need to re-route any RS-232 cables.  The P3 includes a relay
that automatically bypasses it's serial ports when the power is off.

Alan N1AL


On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 15:46 -0700, David Carlson wrote:

> My K3 froze up while downloading in The K3 utility program. The LED shows "MCU LD" and the red TX light is blinking under the power switch. I can not turn the power off with the power switch. I have to turn off the power supply. The K3 utility program can not communicate with the K3  so I can't reinstall the firmware code, however the P3 utility program can connect. I have tried turning off the K3 and then turning it back on holding the "shift/lo" button to reset. That does not work. I did download the latest K3 utility program.  
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks
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