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ProStart I/Os are scrambled

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:46 pm
by ronr
I bought several ProStart boards all at one time. All tested good except one - the input pins all sense high and low voltage (except for the open-collector ones) but the IO number that changes does not correspond to the correct physical pin, as all the other boards do. Is there a way to re-burn the firmware for the "basic chip" on the ProStart board? Or is something else really messed-up in that chip? Thanks for any advice.

Re: ProStart I/Os are scrambled

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:07 am
by basicchip
Hi Ron-

Does the welcome message say it is for the BASICchip? I am wondering if a board in stock had the wrong firmware or an older version. It should report 8.40b as the version.

Here is that firmware, which you can load by copying into the directory where BASICtools is (usually /Program Files (x86)/Coridium

When you start BASICtools it will see that and should a firmware update menu to the Tools menu.

Here is that firmware, and an testIO routine, I just ran on that firmware.
BC0840.hex
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testIO.bas
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Re: ProStart I/Os are scrambled

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:33 pm
by ronr
Hi Bruce,
The original firmware was the correct version, but I reloaded the firmware anyway and reloaded my test program, and I find the same situation of scrambled IOs. On closer examination of the board, I see that the "bad" board has a different silk-screen on it. The board's back side says "REV 3", like all the others, but most of the silk-screened numbers next to the pins are different. For example, the pin normally labeled "7" is labeled "4" on the bad board. So now I think that board is some kind of odd-ball version and cannot be made to act like a "normal" ProStart board. Am I right?

Re: ProStart I/Os are scrambled

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:08 am
by basicchip
Sorry for the mixup Ron, I should use a bigger pen when marking BAD, we keep them around for other experimentation, though really it's very few.

I'll send out a couple replacements next week.

Re: ProStart I/Os are scrambled

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 6:32 pm
by ronr
I received them on 9 Dec. Both tested good. Thank you very much.