Upgrade Procedure With Parallel Cable; Upgrade Procedure With Scsi Cable - Polaroid 8035 Repair Manual

8K Series ProPalette Repair Manual

Upgrade Procedure with Parallel Cable

Use the procedure in this section to upgrade the firmware of a ProPalette film recorder
that displays normal LCD panel messages after startup. If the ProPalette unit does not
have functioning firmware and displays only a blinking cursor on startup, you must use
the Flash Manager utility to reload the firmware instead. (Refer to page 155 for detailed
instructions.)
Note: The following procedure cannot be performed with the
Windows NT operating system.
1. Connect a parallel cable between the PC (LPT of your choosing) and the film
recorder.
2. Power on the film printer and wait for the "Ready" message to appear on the
LCD.
3. From the sub-directory that contains the extracted files, run FWLOAD.EXE
<hexfilename> <portnum> where hexfilename is the path and name of the
control code hexfile, eg. KACNTRL.HEX and portnum is the LPT port
number connected to the printer. The default parallel port is LPT1; if the
printer is connected to LPT1, there is no need to specify portnum. If no
hexfilename is specified, FWLOAD attempts to load 'KACNTRL.HEX' from
the current directory.
4. Wait until the program reports it has finished and the film printer resets itself.
(The LCD displays "Getting data...", "Programming flash..." and "Resetting..."
during the download/burn process.)
Caution: Do not shut down the ProPalette or the PC until the
The new firmware version appears on the LCD panel, indicating that the
upgrade has been successful.

Upgrade Procedure with SCSI Cable

To upgrade the firmware of a ProPalette film recorder through the SCSI interface, follow
the instructions below.
Please note the following before you start:
• Each film recorder model (ProPalette 8000, ProPalette 7000 or ProPalette 8K Series)
has a separate upgrade utility.
• You can upgrade only one film recorder at a time.
ProPalette has performed an automatic reset.
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