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#qmx New build, incomplete initialization problem? #qmx


 

Good day. My QMX+ V3 seems to be stuck in firmware update. By providing a new firmware file it will try to initialize, and after a few minutes gets stuck on Band Version. Stays there for a minute or so, then reverts to the clock. After that, I can get to screens with garbage. I can sometimes get to the Menus and beyond, in and out to non-sense screens. Both push buttons seem to work, because I can easily navigate in the menu, until the system gets stuck on a choice, then it goes back to the clock. ith a right button push, I can go back to garbage screens and sometimes into the menu system. From some of the screens, a quick push on the top decoder will result in a shut-down and a new firmware update state.
I conclude it is not fully initializing, for reasons unknown. I have tried a "Factory Reset" many times, and that seems to get stuck, too.
Ideas? Thank you in advance!


 

This sounds like you have an intermittent or bad connection between your front panel and the QMX+ main board.
Use a magnifier to check carefully all of the soldering of those connectors, and also that there are no places where you may have mechanical shorts on your front panel assembly (any metal-touching-metal).
Stan KC7XE


 

Thanks, Stan, I'll do that again. It does not seem intermittent because of the regularity of the hanging. It seems the firmware image is not being accepted (fully or accurately) or it is not being fully or accurately transmitted (?) for some reason. I am at a loss.
BTW I am using Win 10.
~ Bruce, K3BAB