[TenTec] Orion Died?

[AC5E at aol.com]

It's still a sad fact that a certain percentage of electronic components will 
suffer "infant mortality."  An equipment maker uses the best parts money can 
buy - rigorously tests the finished product - and yet every so often something 
breaks. 

Your problem may be a symptom  of a premature failure - most likely of 
thermal failure of a chip - or it may very well be an indication that a memory chip 
has lost a bit. That happens pretty often down here in the monsoon belt when 
there's enough static in the air to make the cat's hair stand up. 

And the idiot cat thinks I can do something about it! Actually, spraying a 
comb with Joy dishwashing detergent and combing it into his fur gives him enough 
relief that he will quit biting me. But that's another story.

Before you give up though, try re-downloading both the new good-for-XP loader 
program and the latest firmware update; and then try another update. We have 
had problems with downloads arriving with various glitches lately that a 
reload has corrected.  Including one in a sales program whose annual maintainence 
fee is almost "four Orions."  It looks to me as though some sections of the net 
may be approaching capacity.

Good luck and 73   Pete Allen  AC5E