Clint, I had a similar issue with the 3.97 Beta firmware, but in my case only the DSP2 wouldn't take. It kept indicating that 2.58 DSP2 load had failed and noted that DSP2 vers.2.54 was still installed. I tried a number of times with the same result. Finally I powered down the K3. When I turned it back on I got two ERR messages (sorry, I didn't write them down). I powered the K3 down then up a second time, tried to reload only the DSP2 firmware and it took. All is well now.
73, Rich - K1HTV = = = Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:15:40 -0700 From: "Clint" <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] Firmware load issue To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <3fb3eac9155f4338945c665a687e5...@casedd0dd3bb6f> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I just had an issue installing the Beta firmware (3.97 - 2.58) on my K3. The first 2 times I tried, the DSP load failed on both 1 & 2. As I just installed a new RS232 card in my computer (my USB-232 converter scheme was quite noisy) I assumed something was wrong with the new set-up. I went in and checked all the settings on the computer and K3. A-OK so I tried again. This time DSP 1 loaded OK but DSP 2 failed again. I re-checked my new RS232 set-up and it works great with HRD and the Elecraft utility (I used to get noise when the utility polled the K3), noise issue completely gone. I tried again after setting the I/O buffers a bit lower on the computer port settings, no joy. As this last attempt was in progress I noticed the S meter was very busy. After it was done (failed), I turned the RF gain (and AF gain) all the way down and tried once more. Bingo! Anybody else ever notice this? Clint KI6SSN ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
