[hpsdr] SPAM-LOW: Mercury problems

[Scott Cowling]

Hi George,

D3 is turned on by the FPGA firmware, so it would seem that you got a 
good load.

When you first power up the board, are LEDs D9 and D10 flashing (D9 
slowly and D10 quickly)? Is D8 on solid?

Do you have a hardware Byteblaster (or clone)?

73,
Scotty WA2DFI


At 13:13 2011-06-10 -0400, george byrkit wrote:
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>Dear All,
>
>One of my 2 mercury boards had firmware v 2.7 in it.  I decided 
>earlier this week to update to 2.9(a).  Since I'm a Metis user, I
>used John Melton's HPSDRProgrammer, and it seemed to work just fine 
>as far as performing the update.
>
>Now that I decided to TEST what I had done, I discovered that 
>Mercury isn't working right anymore!  And this is true whether using
>Ozy or Metis.  The problem was: no data coming from Mercury (Sync 
>light in KISS set to RED.)
>
>So I decided to revert back to firmware 2.7 for Mercury.  But no 
>joy!  Lights D9 and D10 continue to NOT flash like they do on my
>other mercury, which runs 2.9 just fine.  So that's supposed to 
>indicate that the 'code is NOT running'.
>
>Since these 'debug LEDs' seem to be driven by only the FPGA (and D3 
>is on, indicating that the fpga got loaded from EPROM, I think,
>from the Mercury manual), I'm guessing that my Cyclone III may be hosed?
>
>Anyone got any other ideas?  I'll certainly be on Teamspeak tonight, 
>to see if there's any help offered there as well!
>
>73,
>George K9TRV
>
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