Need Help!

[Kyle925]

Hey DK members, just tried to flash DM500-s via DCC via the network got connection ok but when tried to flash vi Update Flash Menu it erased the old imahge and said complete box shoul now reboot but nothing happens green light appears but no signal. Could someone help.

Thanks
(Cannot Use Modem Cable As have a laptop and this dont have the port)

Edit: Also can you get a null modem cable and a usb converter so that i can do this on a laptop

[PaphosAL]

If your laptop has a PCMCIA adaptor card slot, then you'd be wise to spend a fiver on FleaBay and get a PCMCIA 9pin RS232 card, so your laptop will have a genuine COM port with it's own hardware IRQ after a reboot.

USB-RS232 adaptors are iffy for proper comms like this. If your laptop has a docking station slot, then the new adaptor card will most likely be picked up as COM2 - if not, COM1. Device Manager will tell you...

Cheers- AL ;)

[Kyle925]

If your laptop has a PCMCIA adaptor card slot, then you'd be wise to spend a fiver on FleaBay and get a PCMCIA 9pin RS232 card, so your laptop will have a genuine COM port with it's own hardware IRQ after a reboot.

USB-RS232 adaptors are iffy for proper comms like this. If your laptop has a docking station slot, then the new adaptor card will most likely be picked up as COM2 - if not, COM1. Device Manager will tell you...

Cheers- AL ;)

Thanks and no i dont have a PCMCIA slot, the cable that irequire is it a RS232 cable as it states that on the back of the box but heard that its a null modem cable and there diffrent from RS232 and the usb adaptors are Rs232 so would it work anyway, and no the laptop dosent have a COM port (unless a VGA out is a COM port?) if i purchase a RS232 Cable and RS232 to usb adaptor would it work?

Thanks.

EDIT: would this work: http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00425S1H8/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[PaphosAL]

Take a little tip from an old git, m8... Get yourself a really cheapo old working laptop on xp that has a proper 9 pin Serial Port (which will prolly be COM2 if it has a docking slot, as that will already have grabbed COM1, even though it's not in use).

After you've installed DreamUP, then you have a donkey engine to look after your dm500 when you also buy a two quid null-modem serial cable to link the two. Even faster with a patch ethernet cable via your router, too! (2 mins, compared to 15)

Think about it, it's a no-brainer...

Cheers- AL ;)

[Kyle925]

Cheers mate will have a look. :P

[Kyle925]

The USB to RS232 adaptor worked.