Firmware 4.3 Problems
Posted by: Niko08 on 05 July 2015
Not pleased at all with the process of updating Firmware for my NDX. I have spent over 4 hours today trying to complete, this following a purchase of a Plugable RS232 to USB (Manual says
NaimUniti, UnitiQute, NDX
These products feature a 9-pin RS232 port. Connection requires either:
-A 9-pin to 9-pin RS232 cable to connect directly to the RS232 port on the PC (if present).
Or
-A 9-pin RS232 to USB adaptor combined with an FTDI or Prolific driver – examples can be found below:
So where is the RS232 on the back of NDX? Having discovered it is mini USB I then tried Mini USB to USB on laptop running XP. Not recognised when attempting via COM 3 so downloaded drivers suggested now laptop will not get beyond start up screen saying software conflict, tried an earlier 'safe mode' but no go. So, 4 hours in, a latop that will no longer start, cables purchased that I cannot use I am less than pleased. I have Panasonic TV, Yamaha processor all of which update over network. I did not realise when I purchased the NDX I would need a degree in computer engineering and am now faced with taking my laptop to be repaired all in the naim of an upgrade - in 2015 I am somewhat frustrated!
I had of course long ago noticed that there is no 'North American' version . . . I assumed it was just language-based and went along with Western Europe.
I'm still waiting for the Brits to point up that they are in the UK, not Europe. (On my first trip to London, in the early 1990's, I mentioned to the British Barrister I was meeting with that I'd never been to Europe before. His reply, "You still haven't." 
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It get's for specific than that.
I'm a Northener, Mikes a Southerner. 