Thanks to all who responded to my plea for help. It seems the problem was the brand new 15 ft DB9 serial cable I had bought just for this purpose so I didn't need to move the radio close to the computer to upgrade. I put together a 6ft 25pin cable with adapters to get to 9 pin male/female and connected that mess to the radio and was then able to successfully load firmware to bring the radio back to life. With the 15ft new cable it would stall out midway through the loading and freeze up the program. Thanks again to all and I will go and buy a new shorter cable.de gary
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