IFA and 2nd Dbox2

[WATTYUK]

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me with this one, my niece has recently moved out from home and I took my Dbox2 Intel 2X with commando 12 and magic files on to her house plugged it into the VM Outlet and taaa daaa we have all channels! so I ordered her one from EBay for ?80 inc P+P got the cable the twist on f connector ends and the converter to RF tested again with my working box and its fine so that rules out cable error so I brought her box back to my house where I backed up my image with magic files services and so on transferred all to her box also double checking her box is also Intel 2X which it was, now the weird thing! IFA 3.0 seems to stop at 20% but I have also read if this happens check the LCD and reboot which I have done the image seems to be on her box but the IFA has now stopped working for my box as I wanted to test the new VM+ image on my box I use and have always used my router not a crossover cable, even tried other OS's and Machines to rule out W7 glitch but same outcome on all of them. sorry to waffle on but back to my nieces box it scans 306 transponders as does my working box but finds no channels, I?ve checked the ucodes there the same as mine 001A scan settings the same cams the same everything identical but nothing I?m stuck in a rutt any help would be appreciated

[mini]

1st. Try installing a full image using IFA (let IFA finish the job can take upto 20mins.)

2nd. check to see if your neices box works at your house.

3rd. Check to see if you are getting signal into box by pressing the red button on any channel then followed by blue button. The SNR should read 55000+, if below then try a signal booster. If that doesn't work then you may have a fualty tuner.

[PaphosAL]

To check Signal quality on Commando 12 and Virgin+ 3.0 - it's blue then red to reach this page.

It's a highly technical page of data, so that's where T-C decided it belonged: under the Technical menu, LOL!

AL

[mini]

I'm used to using blade images. Thanks for amending what I said earlier.

[WATTYUK]

Hi thanks for the speedy reply guys, I am still stuck with this one as as I said IFA 3.x has stopped working for me on any machine and any OS that its installed on I have even tryed Portable IFA still no joy the message it gives me is as follows ,

BootP: Got request from 00509C195F10
Error DeleteIpNetEntry: Element not found.

BootP: Created ARP-entry with IP: 192.168.1.202 and Mac: 00509C195F10
BootP: Answer to 00509C195F10 sent
TFTP: Sending C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\tftp\u-boot
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed
BootP: Got request from 00509C195F10
BootP: Created ARP-entry with IP: 192.168.1.202 and Mac: 00509C195F10
BootP: Answer to 00509C195F10 sent
TFTP: Sending C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\tftp\logo-lcd
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed
BootP: Got request from 00509C195F10
BootP: Created ARP-entry with IP: 192.168.1.202 and Mac: 00509C195F10
BootP: Answer to 00509C195F10 sent
TFTP: Sending C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\tftp\logo-fb
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed
TFTP: Sending C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\tftp\kernel-cdk
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed
TFTP: Sending C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\tftp\u-initrd
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed
TFTP: Sending C:\Users\Craig\Documents\DBOX\Commando_12_LZMA_x2_ 2010_19h05\Commando_12_LZMA_x2_28-01-2010_19h05.img
TFTP: Transfer not succsessfull
TFTP: Writing backupimage to C:\Program Files\DBOX_IFA\Backups\2010-02-17 12-44-18_871.img
TFTP: Transfer succsessfull completed

And the LCD Shows me the following message , BACKUP FERTIG, I have left IFA runnig for ove an hour to see if it wil pass but nothing I have to now FTP to the box and plonk the image to TMP folder then flash without bootloader via the services menue as I have said my box works fine no problems at ether house on my nieces box I managed to get some FTA channels at her address but they were jerky my box plugged in at her address is smooth no problems this is sounding to me as the bloke i bought the Dbox from who also had another 4 has sent me one with a dodgy tuner card.

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here is the signal info for my nieces box plugged into my feed that I know works fine with my box and any image I stick onto my box.

BER SNR SIG BITRATE
MAX 262143 35276 62016 0
262143 35276 62016 0
MIN 100000 11712 31765 0

RESOLUTION : 0X0
BITRATE : 0 KBIT/S
FRAMERATE : UNKNOWN
AUDIOTYPE : STEREO (44,1K/I)

FREQ: 0.240 MHz (v)
ONid : 0x111
Sid : 0xX1250
TSid : 0xd9d9

PMTpid : 0x00be
Vpid : NOT AVAILABLE
Apid(S) : NOT AVAILABLE
VTXTpid : NOT AVAILABLE

Sub pid(s) : NOT AVAILABLE
TTXsub page(s) : NOT AVAILABLE

PROVIDER: CabeUK
CHANNEL :

also attached is a screenshot of IFA where it hangs and stays.

[Fergal]

You say you can ftp the box and flash it ok so why are you bothering using IFA
Anyway a few things to try first set your networkcard to 10baseT_half duplex and give it a static ip one below the boxes ip
put the image in C:/ and rename it mtd3.img
try using IFA 1.5.6 as this does not back the image up off the box it just flashes it
but i dont think 1.5.6 will work with W7.

[WATTYUK]

Thanks for the reply Fergal, I have tried what you suggested to no avail, whichever way i flash this box and with whatever settings I use I am still getting no channels after it scans 306 Transponders

[Fergal]

Back the image up from your box (read one partition and flash without bootloader)
and flash it to the other one (write one partition and flash without bootloader) both boxes will be identical no need to scan or anything
go to a fta channel press red then blue if the SNR is below 55000 you wont get any channels to work
try a slx1p booster from argos ?9.99 if it dont work you can get a full refund
return to seller because the tuner is faulty
if the latter is not possible you could try changing the BFG94 in the tuner.

[WATTYUK]

Hi Fergal thats what I did as soon as I got her box to my house but im just doing it again now to see if theres any change, I will let you knowo how i got on

[WATTYUK]

Hi Fergal as soon as my image backup is flashed to the 2nd box its doing exactly what it was the first time I flashed it loads up then goes straight to BBC1 then says Error channel Not Available, Waiting for time, I think the tuner is shot in this box, I have just unscrewed my dad 1990's coax 4 port booster off the living room wall and plugged the box into that and the BER has gone to 262143 and SNR 51914 and SIG 47288 so I am going to pic that slx1p booster up tommorrow after work hopefully that should work as its a newer booster then the one I am testing with now plus its got adjustable gain.

Thanks again for your help, for something that should of been straight faward its become one big ball buster haha

[bob114]

hi
i have a sagem that does this waiting for time with a backed up image from a working box
tried changing ucode to 0014 and works ok
found no matter witch image i try will only work on 0014

hope this may help

[WATTYUK]

Hi Fergal sorry for the delayed response my farther passed away on monday of cancer, but the SLX1P Booster did the trick thanks for your help