Strange looking 800 hd motherboard

[wil1971]

Hi guys,
Bought a spare motherboard and 2 tuners for dm800 of e*ay for under 40 squids delivered, but the motherboard looks different to any ive seen before Capasitors missing/different, anybody seen one and want to shed some light on this? Will probably have them by Friday.

[owengrey]

Hi guys,
Bought a spare motherboard and 2 tuners for dm800 of e*ay for under 40 squids delivered, but the motherboard looks different to any ive seen before Capasitors missing/different, anybody seen one and want to shed some light on this? Will probably have them by Friday.

Just a quick observation, i thought the new glitch free HD tuner was an 801A, tthink 401A is the old one but i might be wrong.

[andy91]

These are not as good as the Rev M 801A even though they are Rev M Tuners.
Like Owen said the M Rev 801A stops the glitch in HD Channels.
Wonder if this is the reason they are being sold.

Andy,

[smoggie]

These are not as good as the Rev M 801A even though they are Rev M Tuners.
Like Owen said the M Rev 801A stops the glitch in HD Channels.
Wonder if this is the reason they are being sold.

Andy,

2 tuners and a motherboard for under ?40 pretty obvious why they are being sold. Isn't the 401A the L3 tuner?

[wil1971]

there are a couple of mods that can be done on these tuners to stop them glitching, such as adding a capacitor to one of the pins. No one knows about the mother board then.

[southpaw]

That mobo looks like my Ferrari dm800 mobo from last year. No fan on the broadcom chip

[benny/9]

it also looks very much like the board in my
original 800hd the tuner you have has a different number
mine is ALPS BSBE2-401A 852711G MADE IN JAPAN
also if you turn it over it will tell you what rev it is
near the lnb ports [mine is HIG003 REV-K]
and the original was'nt fitted with a fan

[wil1971]

Thanks for the info benny, southpaw, I ave a broken 800 at the moment with the two ethernet lights only, I am hoping to make one good one that works out of the parts.

[wil1971]

Fitted the motherboard (Picture post 1) today. Worked straight away and very stable Tried the tuners plus the one from my original box. The 2 that came with the mobo not recognised the other ok. did a scan on 28.2 and scanned a thosand services. tried a couple of channels and all seamed ok. So I have now fitted some better quality heatsinks on the processor. Only thing now is it dont drive the motor to other sats. (Sat Settings are set to my lat/long).
Is this a tuner or mobo issue. Would be good to get this sorted and have as a spare! Any ideas? If it is the tuner I will buy another one.
Also if anyone is interested I have 2 sim 1 cards available for swap for a more recent one if anybody requires them for testing purposes. PM me!