Today when I pressed the "power" button on K3; instead of the friendly startup message, I got four blinking green lights followed by an evanescent blank orange main screen. I invoked the "hold in "down/change" knob while pressing "power" which gave interesting but not useful results. So, I connected my computer with the K3 utility program and checked to be sure I had (on my computer) the latest firmware.. I then followed the directions in the help file for "What if all else fails," to attempt downloading of fresh firmware. After holding in the "power" button for 10 seconds, I go the predicted flashing red "TX" light and the "MCU LD" on the screen. I operated the utility program (* apparently successfully) to "send all firmware to radio" and the green stripe progressed across my computer's screen with the following sequence of messages: Elecraft K3 Utility Revision 1.16.7.25 OS Version 10.0 Build 19044 K3 MCU revision ??.??. RS-232 speed 38400 bit/s. Sending firmware file C:\Users\dubin\AppData\Roaming\Elecraft\K3 Firmware\hmcu0567.hex to MCU Waiting 6 seconds for reset to complete Error code 0xE2000045: No response after reset MCU verification failed. Reload MCU. Click "Close" to close this window I did this procedure two more times with he same outcome.\ What do I do now that "When all else fails" seems to fail? I will sincerely appreciate any help ( especially if it works) to get my beloved K3 working. . VY 73 de W3UECSteve Dubin39.928995 N, -75.339629 W ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
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