Hi
Today I'm a very, very sad person, so please bear with me.
As the title tells you I did something stupid. I just got a new VCI-100 here in Europe at quite a good price. It's a silver one with old firmware, and it was working fine when I got it. I figured it'd be cheaper to buy it here and get the firmware upgrade kit + a black overlay from DJTT separately.
Upgrade kit arrived, but to my great disappointment there wasn't a serial cable to be found anywhere in the region where I live (southern Portugal). Of course I could have ordered one online, but I couldn;t find any Portuguese distributers and to pay international shipping for a €2 cable didn't seem to make much sense (read: cheap idiot who got what he had coming).
So here's the failing strategy:
- Downloaded all the necessary software/firmware from DJTT.
- Opened the VCI-100 and connected the firmware upgrade kit.
- Are you ready? Opened my PC and lifted out my main board to access the serial port(!!!)
- Connected the firmware upgrade serial connector directly to the main board serial connector without use of a cable.
- Launched the Firmware upgrade software, started the upgrade process (I'm not 100% whether or not I remembered to switch the crystal freq to 24).
- Spark, crash - death
- PC dies instantly and is henceforth completely useless. Starts uo only to shut down after less than a minute. Then requires a bit of rest for a few minutes before it's willing to power up again. (checked all fans for cooling, seem to operating normally)
- VCI-100 won't start. Jog wheels do light up with red diods when pressed.
Add to the mix a bit of sobbing, cursing and punching walls.
PC was old, can live with losing it. But I'm devastated about the VCI. I had hoped the reason that it doesn't start up because the firmware upgrade process was interrupted prematurely.
However. I have now received a serial cable and performed the process again, following the youtube instruction video step by step, using another PC. The upgrade process starts without any error messages, but after a few seconds the Renesas software just exits without any warnings. Is this normal? Am I supposed to receive some kind of confirmation message if the firmware upgrade was successful?
The VCI-100 still won't start up, and I no longer get the red diods lit up when I press the jog wheels.
What do you forum readers think, is this a lost cause? Did I just lose around €500 (plus a dead PC) or is there still hope?
Thank you for a t least sharing my faith through this story.
arrekull
Please forgive any grammar or spelling errors, as English is not my first language.
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