Firmware Update Using A Compactflash Card - Siemens SIMOTION D410 Series Commissioning Manual

Maintenance and service
5.4 Performing a firmware and project update
NOTICE
The upgrade operation deletes all project data and parameters from the CompactFlash
Card!
Prerequisite (project updates)
You have updated your project and, if necessary, adapted the device type and device
version. For details, refer to the section titled Adapting a project (new device type/device
version) (Page 150).
5.4.2

Firmware update using a CompactFlash Card

Procedure
The following procedure describes how to perform the upgrade:
1. Switch off the power supply to the D410.
2. Remove the CompactFlash Card from SIMOTION D410 and insert it into the
3. Open Windows Explorer. The CompactFlash Card must be visible as removable data
4. If necessary, back up the licenses, retain data, and user data on the CompactFlash Card
5. Delete all the data from the CompactFlash Card.
6. Unzip the firmware file to the CompactFlash Card using a ZIP file utility such as WinZip.
7. Copy the data saved in step 4 back to the appropriate folder structure on the
8. Remove the CompactFlash Card from the CompactFlash Card adaptor of your
9. Insert the CF card into the D410.
10. Switch on power to the D410. The new firmware is loaded from the CompactFlash Card
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CompactFlash Card adaptor of your PC.
volume Windows Explorer under an arbitrary drive letter.
to your PC (see the section below titled "Backing up licenses, retain data, and user
data").
Always maintain the file structure when setting up the unpacking tool.
CompactFlash Card.
programming device / PC.
to the SIMOTION D410 module.
D410
Commissioning Manual, 05/2009