Upgrade tool problem

[jvvh5897]

I downloaded the upgrade tool here:
http://www.satfix.net/showthread.php?135158-Upgrade-Tool-Version-2-0-0f-Protocol-3-1
and like it for a number of things. Sadly it has a problem it seems getting the bootloader into the s16 box correctly.
I downloaded the bootloader and then turned around and loaded that file right back into the box and the box bricked.

[hondoharry]

I downloaded the upgrade tool here:
http://www.satfix.net/showthread.php?135158-Upgrade-Tool-Version-2-0-0f-Protocol-3-1
and like it for a number of things. Sadly it has a problem it seems getting the bootloader into the s16 box correctly.
I downloaded the bootloader and then turned around and loaded that file right back into the box and the box bricked.

Are you sure the problem is the upgrade tool and not the bootloader file. What file did you use?

[zelig]

version 2.0.0g,but I only have a semi dead s10 to play with.
Don't know how it would react to the s16.
http://www.satfix.net/showthread.php?126838-ali-loader-v2-0-0g

[jvvh5897]

Like I said, the program does a good job getting stuff out of the s16. Boot loader was just pulled from the box and then written back. Box looked good at first, but on power cycle it bricked. My best guess at the moment is that since the boot loader I got at PC did not have the first 128 bytes of the loader, those bytes were erased as part of the erase/write to flash and so were missing when the power cycle made the box try to use them. I've unsoldered the flash from the main board and will try to read it out to see what I see and to try to get the flash up to speed again.

[zelig]

with my s10 I've had the v2.0.0f fail to load the flash properly and I had to recover with v 2.0.0c instead.
For a good working receiver,the v2.0.0f and 2.0.0g dump fine.Notice those versions don't have separate ini files like the old version so you can't tweak for a particular processor like you can with 2.0.0c.I still have blank flash chips for my s10 since you can't kill the 3602 based receivers rs232 port recovery.I never used them.

[steveb111]

im glad you have luck with that box me well its a crappy box I have got the s10 and have had nothing but issues lol but hey that's the game

[steveb111]

but for all the peeps this box does not work with 91 or 82 sats barley works with 110 or 119 lol stay away I say

[jvvh5897]

I"m going to back off blaming the upgrade program. It looks like my power cycle step fried the box. The 3.3V supply is drifting up around 4V. When I tried to read the flash, it was drawing a lot of power and not responding. Not sure what did the frying--the power supply seems to put out higher voltages than the main board uses directly but I don't see a lot of voltage regualtors on the mother board. I'll blame it on a power surge from the rapid switching that I did though. Box is going in the junk bin.

[zelig]

I don't know about the s16,but the dc connector on the power supply is often silk screened with the voltages.

[jvvh5897]

I finally got my act together and tried to reprogram the flash that I un-soldered from this s16 box. I used SPIPGMW (windows version of a tool I found on-line)--it uses parallel port much like jtag but different pins. I had a little trouble getting the connection to the pins on the chip, but eventually got the chip to identify consistently. Then I read the flash twice to see if the two dumps were the same (and to give myself something to look at to figure out what went wrong), erased and reprogrammed the chip. Then another dump to see if what I get out was the same as I put in. Soldered chip back into box and it works now. Not sure what was wrong with the loader that I tried though--nothing that obviously different about--a few FFs where there were 00s in the boot but not in a place I would think would be an issue.