You're very welcome! It had me stumped for a while.

Harold


> Harold,
>
> I used rs232 and every thing came back to normal.
>
> thank you very much for your help
>
> Andre
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Harold Hallikainen
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:06 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [PIC] PM3 programmer BIOS problem
>
>
> I had something similar happen. Here's the fix from Microchip Tech
> Support. It appears you need to use EIA232 instead of USB to recover from
> this situation.
>
>
> ============begin quote============
> Description:  	 My PM3 was working fine. I went to enable it in MPLAB and
> it said a BIOS upgrade was available. I told it to go ahead and install
> it. I've waited a half hour and now have a blank screen on the PM3. How do
> I get it back?
>
> I currently have this message in MPLAB:
>
> The Bios is corrupted and must be updated now. Once you
> see the "Bios upgrade complete." message in the output
> window please manually cycle power on the PM3 and select
> enable once more from the Programmer menu. More downloads
> may still be necessary, but will be handled automatically.
> If you are using USB, please wait at least
> ten seconds after PM3 has been turned on before enabling.
>
> It's been up a LONG time. The progress bar at the bottom is moving to the
> right so it looks like something is going on, but the manual does not
> indicate how long this should take.
>
> THANKS!
>
> Harold
> Resolution: 	Hello Harold,
>
> Connect PM3 through serial port (RS-232).
>
> In MPLAB IDE, go to Programmer and select MPLAB PM3 and then go to
> "Programmer > Settings > Communications Tab" and select the corresponding
> communication port (COMx). Then select "Programmer > Enable Programmer"
> and it will give you an error message which asks you to click OK to
> download the BIOS and when you click OK it should download the BIOS
> successfully and you should be seeing the status bar with BIOS download
> percent information.
>
> Regards,
> Abhi.
>
> ============end quote=======================
>
> Harold
>
>
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> After I connected PM3 MPLAB said there is new BIOS update
>> I clicked YES the display said please wait and later
>> after 1 hour I noticed it got stock after power cycle
>> the display became blank and no matter what I do I can't
>> bring it back.
>> I called friend of mine he brought his PM3 after plugged in
>> same massage showed up I let him decide what to do he licked
>> YES to update BIOS same thing happened to his PM3 too.
>> any idea?
>>
>> Andre
>>
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