Topfield Digital Cable Receiver Personal Video Recorder TF 600 PVRc - Manual (Page 84)

78 Firmware Update
1. Press the Find button to select the
new firmware file.
2. Press the download button, and then
restart the digital receiver to start the
file transfer.
3. A countdown will be displayed on
screen
4. Restart the digital receiver once
more when the file transfer is com-
plete.
10.4 From your computer via RS-232 port
It is possible to transfer a new firmware to the digital receiver
from your computer by connecting them with a RS-232 cable.
You need TFD-Down, a firmware transfer utility for this, which
is available from the web site, http://www.i-topfield.com .
To update the firmware with this method, perform the follow-
ing steps:
1. Download a new firmware applicable to
your digital receiver from the Topfield
web site.
2. Turn off the digital receiver.
3. Plug one end of a RS-232 cable (9 pin D-
sub cable) into the RS-232 port on the dig-
ital receiver, and the other end into the
matching port on your computer.
4. Run TFD-Down.
The instructions on how to use TFD-Down are as follows: