Hi John
Are you sure that COM 3 is actually the one connected to your O2 ?
Does your old XP laptop have a serial port ? If so I would be using a
serial cable direct from the laptop to the O2.
Have you got the correct baud rate set - 57600 ?
Barry VK2BJ
On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 10:47, K3GHH <k3ghh@arrl.net> wrote:
> Apologies for the elementary question, but with 3.033xa running (and
> even that was installed by the factory, after service) I obviously don't
> do this very often. Now trying to go to xe.
>
> I'm using an old Windows XP laptop with a cable from the O-2's serial
> port to a laptop USB port through an adapter. After trial and error I
> found that COM3 did not give me a "Port not found" error, so I'm using
> that. The "Ten-Tec Flash32 Flash Update Utility" seems to be running,
> and the laptop screen shows a "11175 total data lines in file" message.
> A couple of the laptop lights are blinking; one looks like a disk icon
> and another like a battery.
>
> But there's no action showing on the Orion screen --- just "FLASH UPDATE
> MODE" and "Press any key to exit." From previous work I remember
> progress being shown on the O2 screen, as the manual says it should be.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> -- John K3GHH
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