Did you Successfully Upgrade your firmware?

[SuperBario]

Very pleased and relieved.

Have successfully upgraded firmware using Macbook Pro, Parallels 5 and USB to serial cable.

BIG thanks to Alex.Kitsch (see his post) for the necessary instructions. I too ran into the exact same difficulties, but his steps proved to be the answer.

By following EanGolden's video and using Alex's help, Mac is possible!

[deejaygee]

I have an older pc that was 0sitting in my garage and it had a serial port found the male to female cable at radio shack worked like a charm. Now if i can get the tsi to work ill be happy

[rest0r]

Followed the video instructions and got it on 1st try (just had to try different COM ports until I got the right one, COM4 in my case).

I was on XP SP2 and used a Rosewill 2-port Serial PCI adapter model RC-301 and a DB-9 M/F serial cable.

WooHoo!!!

[nismo5584]

I got it done on the first try.
Im running on windows 7 and the best way to go is to use a serial to serial wire. The Serial to USB wire is a PITA!!!

[dual citizen]

I successfully upgraded my firmware using a native install of Windows on a Dell laptop and a USB to Serial cable.

In order to make it work, I had to follow the DJTT instructions on "using a USB to serial cable"

I also had to change the USB-serial's COM port to 3. My computer said this would be a conflict, but it worked anyway. I tried it because the USB-Serial cable was not working on COM port 11.

I encountered some trouble removing the cable harness in order to attach the DJTT firmware upgrader adapter. I was reeeeally paranoid of damaging the VCI. At first I tried attaching the DJTT adapter without removing the harness, but that didn't work. Eventually I just gritted my teeth and wiggled that damn thing until it came off. It was attached quite tightly! I was very relieved when it came off without damaging anything else.

Now I'm upgraded to FW 1.3, and the added functionality is totally worth it.

[desliefaith]

new home mod SE family member!

I've had a VCI-100 1.2 (silver) for just under a year.
Last month I ordered my overlay and upgrade kit.

Received the goods last week...if you're in the UK customs charges are £12 when you collect from Royal Mail. realised I needed to use a serial to serial cable. Myself and no one I know have a serial connection on their computers.
So off to Maplin. I thought I'd take the risk and challenge of trying to use a USB to serial. £14.99 at Maplin.

I'm using a DELL XPS 1530, Windows 7. Followed all the instructions in the video, port 3 was automatically assigned but came back with the error.
I made my way through the COM's and success on COM 5.

The overlay was easy to put on, and doesnt look that bad with the silver plates...I'm happy

Thanks DJ TechTools!

[ggplc]

Hi,
I have a macbook pro, traktor pro 1.2.6, audio dj 2, VCI 100.
I upgraded to version 1.3, works fine, but there are two things that don't work.
1. blue LEDs don't work
2. when active function loop, sync out

Sorry for my bad English, I hope it is able to explain

Thanks for the reply

[photojojo]

Which blue LED's? The ones under the jog wheel or are there blue LED's on the Audio 2?

[TimmyWoo]

I used win xp sp2 and the unbranded "USB Serial Converter" from Maplin electronics UK. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=29968
The one i bought in-store had blue connectors with a silver cable.
After installing the drivers from the disk provided then restarting, it was still showing a driver error, so i went into device manager and reinstalled the driver from there, using the provided cd and it worked fine.

It defaulted to com5 (i checked first in device manager), but i had to restart Renesas in order for it to show in the drop down.

Once that was ok, and i very carefully followed all the video steps, it worked perfectly 1st time!

After testing, all the faderfx work propperly now and it is a dream to use.
There is the odd bug but thats a mapping thing.



Flash Development Toolkit and flash programming components
are provided without support

OS: Windows XP [Admin]
FCF Settings Applied: H8/3052F, (C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\)
FDT API initialised: version 4, 05, 00, 008
FCF Settings Applied: H8/3052F, (C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\)
Clock Frequency (External) = 24.0000MHz, Clock Mode = 0, CKM = 1, and CKP = N/A
Connecting to device 'H8/3052F' on 'COM5'
Configuration:
'BOOT Mode' connection - using emulated interface
Opening port 'COM5' ...
Loading Comms DLL
Loaded Comms DLL
Initiating BOOT SCI sequence
Attempting 9600
Received immediate response from device: 0xAA
Using micro-Kernel : 'C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\uGen3052.cde'
Downloading and verifying micro kernel...
Device is erasing...
Erase Timeout value set to 21 seconds
Erase Successful
micro-Kernel download successful
Sending inquiry for getting line size
Buffer size has been set to default (128 bytes)
Sending selection of device command
Selection of Device - Device selected, code 0302
Sending selection of clock mode
Sending selection of clock mode
Selection of Clock Mode - Clock selected, code 0
Changing baud rate to 38400 bps
Set baud rate value = 38400
Downloading main kernel 'C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\Genm3052.cde'
Main kernel download complete...
Connection complete
Processing file :"C:\VCI-100SE_1.3_Firmware.mot"
Operation on User Flash
Downloaded the operation module
Writing image to device... [0x00000000 - 0x000000FF]
Writing image to device... [0x00000200 - 0x0000647F]
Writing image to device... [0x00008000 - 0x0000807F]
Writing image to device... [0x00009000 - 0x0000907F]
Writing image to device... [0x00009080 - 0x0000917F]
Writing image to device... [0x00009180 - 0x00009AFF]
Data programmed at the following positions:
0x00000000 - 0x000000FF Length : 0x00000100
0x00000200 - 0x0000647F Length : 0x00006280
0x00008000 - 0x0000807F Length : 0x00000080
0x00009000 - 0x0000907F Length : 0x00000080
0x00009080 - 0x0000917F Length : 0x00000100
0x00009180 - 0x00009AFF Length : 0x00000980
27.75 K programmed in 36 seconds
Image written to device
Disconnecting
Disconnected

[1878blues]

Windows 7 - USB to Serial Port (Bought from Maplins £15 - UK) followed the walkthrough and made ammendments as directed and eventually worked

Took a few go's mind and a bit of tweeking but you get there in the end

Keep up the great work DJTT

Love from Liverpool