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dare99 · 09-05-2007, 07:44 AM

Hi, I'm hoping that someone here could help me.

Today I've tried updating the firmware on my reader, but my PC hung during the process. I left it for 90 mins without it coming back but was forced to pull the power cord.

My reader now boots up to "Firmware update is not finished correctly. Please execute firmware update again", which changes to "Updateing firmware now..." when I plug the USB in.
Unfortunatly, when I run the update program, it gives my current firmware as 0.0.00.00000 and skips over the "deleting current firmware" part of instalation very quickly. It then says "Installing new software" for a minute, and tehn comes back with an ever so useful, "Update isn't complete, please try again" message.

I've tried the 10 times reset and altering the version number for the firmware instalation, but no luck.

09-05-2007, 07:44 AM	#1
dare99 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: PRS-500	Have I made a very expensive paper weight. Hi, I'm hoping that someone here could help me. Today I've tried updating the firmware on my reader, but my PC hung during the process. I left it for 90 mins without it coming back but was forced to pull the power cord. My reader now boots up to "Firmware update is not finished correctly. Please execute firmware update again", which changes to "Updateing firmware now..." when I plug the USB in. Unfortunatly, when I run the update program, it gives my current firmware as 0.0.00.00000 and skips over the "deleting current firmware" part of instalation very quickly. It then says "Installing new software" for a minute, and tehn comes back with an ever so useful, "Update isn't complete, please try again" message. I've tried the 10 times reset and altering the version number for the firmware instalation, but no luck.