[hpsdr] Novice Help

[Paul Fletcher]

You need to update the firmware on the boards. Search the archive for 
instructions on how to do this - I know it's there because I used it. I 
can't remember the exact details but maybe someone else will jump in who has 
a better memory!

Regards
Paul M1PAF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat McGrath" <ka6tya at arrl.net>
To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:23 AM
Subject: [hpsdr] Novice Help


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> What can I do to fix this problem?
>
>
> "Invalid Firmware level. Ozy >=16, Penelope>=12 and Mercury >=27 required"
>
>
> The HPSDR is a Mercury board in J5 and a Magister board in J2.  Both
> are mounted on an Atlas motherboard installed in a Pandora enclosure.
> The power supply is a Turbolink 420Watt ATX supply. Both
> the Mercury and Magister boards are recently purchased from TAPR, and
> I assembled the Atlas board.
>
> The SCL and SDA jumpers have been installed on the Magister board.
>
> The USBIO driver has been downloaded from Flex-Radio.com and installed.
>
> PowerSDR has been downloaded from the SVN site.
>
> After applying power to the HPSDR and plugging the USB cable into
> Magister, here is the condition:
>
> The Windows Device Manager shows:
>    LibUSB-Win32Devices
>        OZY Host Assisted Firmware Load
>
> The red LEDs on the Mercury board are:  D3,D9, and D10. The four green
> LEDs shown in the Mercury Manual are also illuminated.
>
> The Magister board shows activity on three LEDs.
>    D2 - intermittant
>    D7 - continuous
>    D8 - intermittant
>
> The Atlas motherboard is showing Green LEDs for 12V, 5V, 3.3V and -12V.
>
> Now I run PowerSDR which shows
> "(KD5TFD 7May2010) FlexRadio Systems PowerSDR v1.10.4+ BaseSVN 2025" in 
> the
> top of the window.
>
> In the Setup window, HPSDR tab the Firmware versions shown are:
>
>    Ozy FX2: n/a
>    Ozy: 0
>    Mercury: 0
>    Penelope: 0
>
> Mercury is selected for both clock sources.
>
> After pressing the "Start" button an error window appears which says:
>
> "Invalid Firmware level. Ozy >=16, Penelope>=12 and Mercury >=27 required"
>
> Now the Firmware Versions in the HPSDR setup screen are:
>
>    Ozy FX2: 20090524
>    Ozy: 0
>    Mercury: 0
>    Penelope: 0
>
> Now the Magister boards is showing the following Red LEDs:
>    D2 - intermittant
>    D3 - continuous
>    D7 - continuous
>    D8 - intermittant
>
>
>
> Please Help. Thanks
>
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