So, after having the apex up and running for over 6 months, finally got off my a$$ and got it "online".
I had asked Omar about it from time to time, but he advised me that it's cake with Fusion now, and i should just do that.
I read the instructions, and realized that i'd need a long cat-5 cable, so i ordered one off amazon, and got down to it yesterday.
Initial part went ok. the firmware updater recognized the apex immediately, and I started the upload. the communication seemed really spotty during upload, and would lose packets 2-3x before it got through, eventually, it uploaded it all, and said was successful.
then I tried to update the webpage, and that's when it went to the crapper.
the whole thing froze, and the apex went dark (display module).
the apex solution bulletin was no help, since the loader kept spitting out a check-sum error, and wouldn't even get to the part that times out.
so, for people who may experience this in the future, here's the solution (on a PC).
you have to delete the registry entry for the neptune update software, because it's storing corrupted status. simply deleting the program and re-extracting it won't work.
search for "apex" and "neptune" in regedit, and delete those.
after i did that, reflashing went smoothly, as well as the update..
I had asked Omar about it from time to time, but he advised me that it's cake with Fusion now, and i should just do that.
I read the instructions, and realized that i'd need a long cat-5 cable, so i ordered one off amazon, and got down to it yesterday.
Initial part went ok. the firmware updater recognized the apex immediately, and I started the upload. the communication seemed really spotty during upload, and would lose packets 2-3x before it got through, eventually, it uploaded it all, and said was successful.
then I tried to update the webpage, and that's when it went to the crapper.
the whole thing froze, and the apex went dark (display module).
the apex solution bulletin was no help, since the loader kept spitting out a check-sum error, and wouldn't even get to the part that times out.
so, for people who may experience this in the future, here's the solution (on a PC).
you have to delete the registry entry for the neptune update software, because it's storing corrupted status. simply deleting the program and re-extracting it won't work.
search for "apex" and "neptune" in regedit, and delete those.
after i did that, reflashing went smoothly, as well as the update..