SRIB stopped bootstrapping

[williamGB]

My RLN1015D has stopped bootstrapping my radios.
I am able to read and write a codeplug using the SRIB, but when trying to write a codeplug through Tools > Depot > Write Codeplug, it asks me to turn the radio on and off, then I get the failed to bootstrap radio error. The radio doesn't go into bootstrap mode.. just turns on normally.
I'm using Windows 7 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300, USB to serial adaptor (which has worked fine for ages), RLN1015D SRIB and RKN4035A XTS3000 flash cable. Depot version is R05.02.02 from W9CR.

Does anyone have an idea on what's gone wrong?

 

[buddrousa]

We do not discuss that software here.
Yes you have software that you are not allowed to own.
Not sure about in the UK but in the US you are not allowed to own it.

 

[williamGB]

We do not discuss that software here.
Yes you have software that you are not allowed to own.
Not sure about in the UK but in the US you are not allowed to own it.

Ah, Sorry. I thought as it was EOL a while ago, Motorola don't care about that anymore.
I'm not wanting assistance on the software, just my SRIB is all.

 

[marcotor]

Ah, Sorry. I thought as it was EOL a while ago, Motorola don't care about that anymore.
I'm not wanting assistance on the software, just my SRIB is all.

I am not going to scold you since your question had nothing to do with Depot, and it isn't my job to police things I don't approve of.

You need to troubleshoot. No matter how "reliable and solid" your setup has been in the past. For this you need to ditch the USB adapter. No matter how good the adapter, or how many anecdotal instances you can point at, the sRIB was NOT designed to be used with it.

Find a computer, or someone who has one with a real serial port. Check the sRIB functionality. If it again fails, it could be anything inside and depending on your skill level easy to repair, or impossible. If it works, then you know there may be something wrong with your computer, your settings, your adapter, or a multitude of other things. You are using a 30-year-old piece of hardware, on an OS that long been out of the mainstream and out of support for some time.

 

[buddrousa]

Dealing with the rib only double check speed, bits, and parity settings also if I remember correctly in the port settings on the PC is a slider setting to make changes to the urt settings try to slow that down. I can remember back in the old days using usb having to do that.