BCM 1000 UPGRADE 2.5 to 3.7

[BizFoneGuy]

I am going to upgrade a bcm 1000 from a 2.5 to a 3.7. As the customer has had some problems on the 2.5, we intend on just putting a virgin 3.7 drive in the unit and starting with a clean slate to reload the programming.

My intention was to do a backup of the original unit and reload it on to a temporary 2.5 system that has similar licensing (keycodes) and allow him to continue using the loaner until the other is upgraded. My backup would then consist of everything except licensing, or what backup items should I select to have an identical loaner unit?

The other question I have is that when you change from 2.5 to 3.7 you have the dual density issues. Currently all his modules are single density. Will the MSC card hold the original programming and see no difference or I have to renumber the DN's so as to avoid skipping the upper dns?

Any comments or ideas would be appreciated.

Thank You All!

 

[BizFoneGuy]

I was looking at the machines and both have cards that have the green sticker on the front and seem to have MSC cards that have AAAH at the end of the model number yet one is working with 3.6 and the other died when I tried to take it to 2.5? In unified manager, with an older drive is says version 1.0 for the MSC card yet both units seem to have identical cards?

 

[NARSBARS]

The 1.0 card should be able to go to 2.5 FP1. The 1.0 card ends at 2.5FP1.
Even though I have done upgrades to 1000's I don't keep any in the field at this point. They are only test beds for programming and testing modules.
That said, if you can't get to FP1 on a 1.0 with an upgrade I would try to get an image and go that route.
Does anyone know if any of the upgrades carried bios upgrades with them? An obsolete bios could cause headaches.
Good Luck.

NARSBARS

 

[Blotnik]

FWIW, I have upgraded lots of the older EEs and the modem issue seems to be directly related to the WAN/LAN systems vs the LAN/LAN systems.

I have never gotten the modem to work after upgrading a WAN/LAN EE and have always gotten the modem to work after a LAN/LAN EE is upgraded.

I think there is probably a PCI conflict with the WAN card/driver and modem, but that's just a guess.

Anyone confirm or have any input on this observation?

 

[NARSBARS]

Blotnik,
I thought I was doing something wrong. I never got an upgraded 1000 to work with it's modem.
I have heard (rumor only) that the problem may be a lack of a driver in the upgrade package. The last modem I checked runs fine outside of the 1000 and is a Lucent WinModem.

NARSBARS