[hpsdr] FW: Penny FPGA Load

[Gordon & Lois Duff]

Here is my response to John sent privately.  I didn't know he copied the list.

HPSDRProgrammer has no problem finding and loading Penny.  However, when jumpers are removed and things restarted there is no Penny found by KISS (or Hera, or PowerSDR).

Gordon, KA2NLM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon & Lois Duff [mailto:glduff at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:36 PM
> To: 'john.d.melton at googlemail.com'
> Subject: FW: [hpsdr] Penny FPGA Load
> 
> John,
> 
> I tried again with Metis in J1 and Penny in J2.  Metis had JP1 in place
> and Penny JP7.
> 
> Programmer runs without error messages; it's last message is about JP1.
> 
> KISS doesn't find Penny and only LED1 is on (solid).
> 
> I am using Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> Gordon, KA2NLM
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Melton [mailto:john.d.melton at googlemail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:58 PM
> > To: Gordon & Lois Duff
> > Cc: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
> > Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Penny FPGA Load
> >
> > Hi Gordon,
> >
> > you should just be able to just try it again.
> >
> > Can you confirm that the Metis board was in the slot farthest from
> the
> > power connector (J1) and that the Penelope card was in the slot next
> to
> > it (J2)?  You also need to have the Last JTAG jumper on the Penelope
> > card.  There should be no other cards on the ATLAS bus.  (All as per
> > the
> > Metis User Manual).
> >
> > Can you also let me know what OS and version you are running?
> >
> > The only way I have managed to make this fail is to not have the
> boards
> > in the correct slots.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John g0orx/n6lyt
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 09:15 -0400, Gordon & Lois Duff wrote:
> > > ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> > >
> > > About a week ago I reported:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "I tried to upgrade to version 1.3 unsuccessfully.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I used HPSDRProgrammer version 1.4 and got a clean report.  Right
> > > after the
> > >
> > > load Penny LEDs 1,2,5 and 6 were on solid.  3 and 4 were off, and 7
> > > was
> > >
> > > flashing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I powered everything off,  removed J1 from Metis and turned the
> power
> > > back
> > >
> > > on.  Now only LED 1 is on on the Penny board.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What can I try next?"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have not yet solved the problem.  Do I need to buy another Penny?
> > > (Ouch).  Maybe I won't need Alex after all :)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hopefully, someone on the list can get me going again.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gordon, KA2NLM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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