[TenTec] Flash update not working

[Stan Dicks]

Grant,

At least  I know this happens to others, but nothing seems to be fixing it.
I did a master reset and rebooted my computer. No dice. I replaced the
serial cable. No dice. I turned on xon/xoff and then hardware handshaking on
the port. No dice. And yet if I fire up N4PY or the logging program, they
talk to the Orion through com1 just fine. Maybe, on a long shot, I'll try
downloading the update software again, but I doubt if that is going to make
any difference.

73, Stan, W4AG

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Grant Youngman
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:16 PM
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Flash update not working

> OK, this is weird. When I try to flash v.2.060b to the Orion, nothing
> happens. The update screen displays "ORION ROM UPDATE FILE" and at the
> bottom it displays "0 of 9521 Lines Processed." And then it 
> just sits there.

I just had a similar thing happen.  I updated my Orion II and it worked
fine.  When I tried to update the Orion I v2, I consistently got a
communications failure message.  The update program screen did show "0 of
... Lines" at the bottom, and looked sort of like it should be working, but
it wasn't updating anything. (The "orion detected" message was missing from
the top of the Update window).

I did a Master Reset and then went back into update mode, and it worked
fine.

The Update utlilty does automatically configure the COM port to the correct
parameters, so that probably isn't your issue.  I would also suspect that
there would be errors of other kinds if it was really a problem with flash
memory in the radio -- but one never knows .. :)

Grant/NQ5T

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