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Serial-port-connected firmware upload, E 40 and – Extron Electronics MPX 866 A User Guide User Manual

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Serial-port-connected firmware upload

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Figure 40.

Extron Firmware Loader Window

10.

Select the MPX 866 A matrix switcher and click

File

>

Open

. The

Choose Firmware

File

screen appears (see figure 41).

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Figure 41.

Choose Firmware File Window

11.

Navigate to and select the new firmware file. Click

Open

. The Choose Firmware File

window closes.

CAUTION: The firmware file must have an .s19 extension. Other file types can

cause the switcher to stop functioning.

NOTE: When downloaded from the Extron website, the firmware is placed in a

subfolder of

C:

\

Program Files

\

Extron

\

Firmware

.

12.

In the Firmware Loader window, click

Begin

(see figure 42).

The

Total Progress

and

Progress

status bars show the upload progress. The firmware

upload may take several minutes. Once the status bars have progressed from

0%

to

100%

, and Status is listed as

Completed

, the firmware loader utility resets the switcher.

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Figure 42.

Firmware Loader Screen

13.

Click

Exit

to close the Firmware Loader.

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