Thread: Traxis 3500 0/22k Greyed-Out

At what point did it go Goofy?

Are you positive you have the correct Serial settings?

Lak, I had it in the correct settings for the ports between the pc and receiver. I think what has happened what that I did not had the firmware in the proper folder so the loader could locate it and send it to the receiver to be flashed. Apparently when the loader started to do its thing and tried to install the firmware, the firmware was not in the proper place. I believe that caused the chip in the 3500 to be erased.
That was stupidity on my part. I feel like kicking myself for that oversight. I hope this will be a lesson to all of us about being careful upgrading our receivers.
I have hope that I can rescue this receiver. Just gotta figure out how to make it read back to the pc and try reinstalling the firmware. I had upgraded several of my receivers with latest firmware with no problems. I goofed and that is the bottom line of this mess.

With some receivers, you can connect the serial port of a one receiver to the other and have it flash the second one. Now, you will have to do some searching to see if this is available for yours, but you would power on the working one, then power on the one to be flashed. BE WARNED I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT PROCEEDURE. (or if it is possible with your reciver) PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

MrFTA, which cable are you trying to use, Null Modem or Straight Through?

Lak, I use the null modem cable that came with it. I done this kind of proceedure whenever a new SW comes availabe on my other receivers. And never had any problems. This is the first time I boogy up a receiver. Just plain careless...
When I first started the loader to install the SW, I had the cable between the pc and STB. As soon I clicked Connect on the loader and then flip on the receiver from the back. The pc screen stated it recongnized the ports and both was open. Where I messed up (and I am STILL kicking myself for it) is I forgot to have the ABS file in the folder that the loader go to after clicking the Clunk section. Apparently with that SW file not in the proper place, the chipset in the receiver's motherboard was erased.

Larry, you are talking about cloning, and there is no one in my area that has a Traxis 43500. From what I have read lately is that the letter (N,P,K,Q in the serial number) on both receivers must match. One SatelliteGuys member offered to try cloning my receiver with his, but his receiver has the "K" and mine has the "Q". Looks like to me that since my receiver lost all of its SW I could clone from any other 3500 receiver regardless of what letter is in the serial number. His receiver must be one of the earlier ones that came out and be designed differently from the newer ones.
Moral of this story: Whenever you attempt to upgrade your receiver, make damn sure all the neccesary files are located in the proper folders, make sure all the necessary files are zipped if it is in WinZip form.