Bricked Skybox F5 - My Solution With USB Connection

[Mr Don]

So got my self a new sky box f5 and did a multi sat search(big mistake),so i didnt have a computer with a serial port,so i ordered one of the cheap usb converters off ebay.when that came i then realised that i never checked to see if it was male or female.

It was male so now i had a male to male connection,so up to my local shop and got a female to female connection to add on to it, usb to male,male to female cable and that connected to the box.i had read about the usb to serial not working properly but i still tried.

So i keep trying by using the upgrade tool and the upgrade tool from the skyboxs website,all this with no luck two hours later and i was still couldnt get the box to flash.i had all but given up and i came accross another site and a person claiming that he was able to do it via this version of the upgrade tool,so i had nothing to lose so i downloaded it and on my first go it worked.i couldnt believe it.

I thought i was one of the lucky few that got it to work via usb. here is where the upgrade tool is.im not able to upload attachments. my os that i was using was Windows 7 pro x64Code:


http://www.mediafire.com/?bsb5rk35wdcthnh

[Hadron]

I have noticed myself that there are 2 versions of this EROM Upgrade tool, both with the same version number (2.0.0c 2009-05-22).

One of them has a graphic on the left side of the screen (the one that worked for you) and the other one doesn't. I wonder what the difference is? Why wasn't the newer one given a different version number?

[djpopeye1971]

there is a place to get tools to do it its not skybox its another one

[DW190]

there is a place to get tools to do it its not skybox its another one

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