Reply to VCI-100 Flashing Fail - Bricked Controller

Hi all,

Have been scouring the community s trying to find some advice to my problem but to no avail. I bought a VCI-100 second-hand that had fw 1.1 and then got the upgrade kit. Consider myself decently tech saavy and attempted to update using a USB-Serial adapter (from Monoprice, with Prolific drivers). I've also attempted on two different computers with different ports and changing the COM and delay settings as well.

At this point, I tried to reassemble the controller and use it at the 1.1 it was previously at, but now I get no lights when turning the table on. The only way I can get them to turn on is if I hit the echo/play buttons together on both sites, which causes red lights under the jogwheels to appear.

Am I totally screwed? I am going to buy some other usb-serial adapters to try out tomorrow after work, but I have no easy access to a real serial port. Would be willing to meet up for help in either San Francisco or Los Angeles areas (in both each week).

Any tips would be appreciated, pretty bummed that I just got it and it already is dead for me.