{"id":30854,"date":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=30854"},"modified":"2012-04-12T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:16:21","slug":"cant-firmware-load-new-mackie-spike-failure-load-notice","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/cant-firmware-load-new-mackie-spike-failure-load-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t get the firmware to load into my new Mackie Spike. I keep getting a failure to load notice right before it seems to finish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mackie, this is normal behavior for all Spikes. This is due to the install CD having a default program to load a firmware updater on it when installed. However, all spikes have shipped with the  current firmware so there is no need to update it. The update fails because the unit is already current. 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