[hpsdr] Metis quit working

Joe Martin K5SO k5so at valornet.com
Tue Apr 26 18:19:39 PDT 2011


Hi Phil,

Okay, thanks, I'll remember that.

However, earlier with my Metis board failure that was not possible; an  
EEPROM reload using a blaster cable was the only way to recover from  
that one.

73,  Joe K5SO

On Apr 26, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Phil Harman wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> You wrote:
>
>> If NONE of the status LEDs are
>> lit (as happened to me and a few others now) then the programming in
>> the EPROM has become corrupted or erased and it will be necessary for
>> you to re-program the EPROM on Metis with a blaster cable in order to
>> recover.
>>
>
> If the Metis code in the EEPROM has accidently been erased then before
> re-programming put the board in Bootloader mode. The part of the  
> EEPROM
> that holds the Bootloader code is not accessible from the Metis code  
> so
> its quite likely that you can still run the Bootloader and use it to
> recover the Metis code.
>
> 73 Phil...VK6APH
>


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