synchronizing STBs please reset target

[maundyboy]

trying to re-flash my bricked f5s using desk top pc and rs232 serial null cable with erom upgrade and latest firmware downloaded from skybox cc tried thousands of times but cant get past synchronizing STBs please reset target!!
AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! SOME 1 PLEASE HELP ME!
if sum1 replays and tells me if im allowed to post my email address and mobile number on here i will post to make communication easier




HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY

[SpiKed]

Happy new year!
sorry to state the obvious but are you sure your using a null modem cable?
When it says this error are you putting the power cable back into the box?

[maundyboy]

yeah its a null modem cable and ive tried loads of diff timings too

[SpiKed]

It's not a usb to R232 by any chance is it?

[maundyboy]

no its fem-fem rs232

[BrunoJ]

Try this one hope it help.. i try on a f3s and f5s and works fine... let us know if work.. Happy New Year

[Frogger]

Read this

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f184/just-recovered-dead-skybox-f3-software-282932/

[maundyboy]

accepted defeat and sent it to someone on fleabay to do for a tenna

[digicon]

accepted defeat and sent it to someone on fleabay to do for a tenna

At may have been prudent to ask if there was any DK members in your local Area who may have been willing to help out first, Always worth a try for future problems

[chrishigh]

im having the same problem tried for about 2 weeks now to fix ive tried almost everything could someone help me please if there is one of you lives close to me il run round and let you have a crack at it cause its well and truly beat me

[P&D]

im having the same problem tried for about 2 weeks now to fix ive tried almost everything could someone help me please if there is one of you lives close to me il run round and let you have a crack at it cause its well and truly beat me

I'm guessing your on the MOON ???? to far for me

Helps if you tell us what area....guessing is a bitch of a job.....

[chrishigh]

sorry im from merseyside and yea its a bitch of a job im trying now on the 5th and final pc iv got plus ive also tried with 3 diferant laptops using a range of windows from windows me all the way to windows 7

[P&D]

I'm in the same place as you...that narrows it down a bit
Wa9 anywhere near ???

[chrishigh]

yea mate wa10 near the old saints ground

[chrishigh]

what i found out today with mine is when i pulled the power lead out of the box it seemed to work then seconds later stb memory error so i finanly got fed up opened the skybox up to find one of the little chips had swollen up

so id advise if your having the same problem as me and the synchronizing STBs please reset target message has done next to itwhen you pull the power cord out
send it back to your dealer cause its well bricked