Can you brick an MD-9600?
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:10 am
Good day to you all!
I posted this in the OpenGD77 Facebook group and I hope that duplicating this here is permitted.
I loaded up the latest OpenGD77 on my MD-9600 a few days back and everything worked perfectly. I was able to upload new code plugs and the full functionality of the radio was at my disposal. It's a real improvement over stock.
However, this afternoon, while exploring the various menus and settings, the radio stopped accepting new code plugs with the error message "Error connecting to the radio" and "Comm PortNot Available." I checked the Windows device manager and sure enough, the correct OpenGD77 device driver was loaded and running, and assigned to Com 18. In firmware flash mode, the correct driver also appears in the device manager. Various reboots and reinstallation of both the CPS and the device driver have failed to resolve the issue.
But that's the not crazy part.
My friend and fellow ham and I were on the phone together sharing our experiences and pointing out features to each other. BOTH of our radios stopped accepting uploads at roughly the same time, same symptoms, same frustration. He's got the right device driver loaded and all that. In my case, I even tried a different computer (albeit a virtual one) and got precisely the same results.
I am out of things to try. I am not a computer neophyte having started in the computer biz in the '70s. But this one has me stumped.
I'm sure I am just missing something obvious. Perhaps my friend and I changed a setting or some other parameter that is causing this issue.
Any help you can provide would be terrific. Thanks in advance!
73,
Dan, KN4FYR
I posted this in the OpenGD77 Facebook group and I hope that duplicating this here is permitted.
I loaded up the latest OpenGD77 on my MD-9600 a few days back and everything worked perfectly. I was able to upload new code plugs and the full functionality of the radio was at my disposal. It's a real improvement over stock.
However, this afternoon, while exploring the various menus and settings, the radio stopped accepting new code plugs with the error message "Error connecting to the radio" and "Comm PortNot Available." I checked the Windows device manager and sure enough, the correct OpenGD77 device driver was loaded and running, and assigned to Com 18. In firmware flash mode, the correct driver also appears in the device manager. Various reboots and reinstallation of both the CPS and the device driver have failed to resolve the issue.
But that's the not crazy part.
My friend and fellow ham and I were on the phone together sharing our experiences and pointing out features to each other. BOTH of our radios stopped accepting uploads at roughly the same time, same symptoms, same frustration. He's got the right device driver loaded and all that. In my case, I even tried a different computer (albeit a virtual one) and got precisely the same results.
I am out of things to try. I am not a computer neophyte having started in the computer biz in the '70s. But this one has me stumped.
I'm sure I am just missing something obvious. Perhaps my friend and I changed a setting or some other parameter that is causing this issue.
Any help you can provide would be terrific. Thanks in advance!
73,
Dan, KN4FYR