spruilldog

Never mind. I rebooted my computer and retrieved the USB cable that I came with my POD and it worked. Not sure why but....

I am running windows 8.1 BTW

Please help my with my connection issue. I have had the POD HD 500 for several years and have been using the edit software with no problems. I just bought the HD 500x and got all of that software updated and installed. Now my old 500 will not connect to the 500 editor. Error message is : Could not connect to POD HD500 This editor requires HD 500 vesion 1.30 or higher Run Line 6 monkey to get the latest firmware for your POD HD 500 When I run Line 6 monkey I have USB Firmware 1.04 which it says is the newest version and it says my flash memory is "unknown" . On my POD under the setup utility I can see that the flash memory is v2.62 but it says the USB firmware is v0.00 I have reinstalled the usb firmware but it didn't work. When I click on the Device Firmware section on the Line 6 monkey and hit update selection I end up getting to POD HD 500 update failed. (Code 8000900C) MIDI device timed out waiting for a response. Try the update again ..... Any ideas how to fix this?

Anyone know if I'd be able to load my patches from my POD HD 500 into the HD 500X? I'd like to have a back up rig. I'd get the X and use my old unit as a backup if I can load it straight but otherwise I'll probably pick up a used HD500 as a backup. I use it live straight to the board and it works fine like that but always pays to have a backup, and I spent way too much time programming to start from scratch. i have a separate patch for each song we do.