Upgrading from V2 to V3 (not accepting MIOS upload)

[TK.]

Mike burned another PIC18F4620 and sent me the .hex file - it is complete. He will take special care on the next deliveries (second verify), so that this (hopefully) doesn't happen again. The reason for the failure is still unknown, but it wasn't Mike's fault.

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[mjproc]

That's even greater!!  I guess we can blame (as stryd_one earlier suggested) the customs....

Hmmmm.... Are you guys getting these shipped through Customs perhaps?

[smashtv]

I guess we can blame (as stryd_one earlier suggested) the customs....

umm.... No. 

If this were some kind of radiation/scanning scramble it would kill the whole thing, not just one chunk.

It's easy to make WinPic800 miss a block and still report a good burn, anything that steals enough cycles (like an HP printer driver) will do it. 

Another nail in the coffin for the radiation theory:  I would be getting reports of DOA PICs, which I'm not.  Even during the various anthrax mail scares here in the US (where they were dosing lots of mail with enough radiation to kill anything biological) no scrambled chips, even when the parcel was known to have been irradiated.

Scratch radiation off the suspect list, and write 'Wintendo' in its place.  ;)

Best

SmashTV

[stryd_one]

More very good reasons why I've been complaining about USB for the last 5 years....

[monokinetic]

TK:

sorry my reply is delayed, my machine is currentl burried in an exhibition piece (long story, midibox is invloved!)

no hope to get the pic image just now. i should be able to get at it next week, just for your interest i will pm it....

apologies for the delay!

d