Duo clone broke this afternoon!!!!! Help

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 05:30 PM

Box is couple of days old. Left it last night to try and get epg loaded.
Today clock showing on front panel, but will not respond to remote.
Turned off at back.
Upon turning on just shows red boot light top right and nothing else. Will not boot, not matter how many times I power cycle.

Help!!!

BTW, I did not try and reload any images on it. All I did last night was to try and get the UALS sorted and get the 7-day EPG setup onto a USB pendrive overnight.

It looks totally bricked to me.

**potrobber** · 16th May, 2012, 05:39 PM

m8 ii have put posts on here before about the clones i open everyone now and push all the connections fully home

i have even had a couple with the main lead from psu not pushed in at all so open your box and check all cable connections are fully home this im sure will be your problem

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by potrobber

m8 ii have put posts on here before about the clones i open everyone now and push all the connections fully home

i have even had a couple with the main lead from psu not pushed in at all so open your box and check all cable connections are fully home this im sure will be your problem

Thanks I'll try this again. But I did have a look at all the connectors when I fitted the hard drive, as I'd seen your posts before.
Will let you know how I get on.

**potrobber** · 16th May, 2012, 05:46 PM

try pulling all the connectors apart first then refitting them just to be sure

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by potrobber

try pulling all the connectors apart first then refitting them just to be sure

Tried this mate.
Connector to main board.
Fan to main board.
Removed drive connectors (to take out of equation)
Connector to front panel.
Etc

Basically every one I can see that can be disconnected was removed/reconnected.
Still only see red light on front. This goes amber when remote is pressed but that is about it.

Its noticeable that the fan is not spinning on power up. Could this be a heat issue causing the power supply to cook?
Last night was the first time I left the unit running overnight, albeit in standby ,awaiting epg update. Looks like cross epg files on pendrive were updated at about 2am. So could it have cooked after then?

**DOUGALMCD** · 16th May, 2012, 06:26 PM

I have read a thread about the red light on duo somewhere and something about C807 220UF capacitor on board needing replaced. Also the flash may have been erased.

**DOUGALMCD** · 16th May, 2012, 06:40 PM

Yes this is the one. What image were you on before it broke and was everything working ok.

**potrobber** · 16th May, 2012, 06:46 PM

there is also a fix for red light stuck on, on ferrari forum for bricked box have a look there m8

i dont think leaving it on would cause this as i never turn them off

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by DOUGALMCD

Yes this is the one. What image were you on before it broke and was everything working ok.

I've only had it running for about a day. I think it was preinstalled with BH 1.70
Yes it was working, although I was having problems getting it to properly drive my technomate motor via USALs (see other post from yesterday
The crossepg stuff appears to have been downloaded about 2am.

Looked at that thread and a few others. Seems it may not just be that Capacitor. Another guy had to replace the Power supply

Is the fact the fan is not moving an indication of that also broke?

**DOUGALMCD** · 16th May, 2012, 06:54 PM

Have you tried to reflash with fresh image on front usb.
Make sure you use duo file

**DOUGALMCD** · 16th May, 2012, 06:59 PM

It sounds to me as if the box has had some sort of corrupt file and just needs to be reflashed.
Did you format usb to fat 32
Did you mount usb in settings
Did you put usb in front or rear

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by DOUGALMCD

It sounds to me as if the box has had some sort of corrupt file and just needs to be reflashed.

Are you talking about a new version of BH or VIX? Or a complete new kernel. If so isn't that done via the serial link on a clone (which this is)

**meggiedude** · 16th May, 2012, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by DOUGALMCD

It sounds to me as if the box has had some sort of corrupt file and just needs to be reflashed.
Did you format usb to fat 32
Did you mount usb in settings
Did you put usb in front or rear

Re second set of questions
Pendrive was formatted Fat32
It was put overnight in rear of box
I didn't mount anything, but the crossepg files did make it there at 2am as I say above