Saga of Dead IP BOX 9000 HD

Am I at the end of the tunnel? Got my IP Box 9000 HD back from the dealer today. To remind you that it just died in December 2008, I sent it back, dealer replaced motherboard for February.
Then it just continued booting without moving into menu mode.Sent it back, again.
Dealer says that motherboard (and power supply) have now been replaced.Had many suggestions from this forum ( including changing my house) but a faulty power supply explains why the
LED would light up but the processor wouldn't.

So I plug it in this evening.

In 3 months I'm out of date with image updates so would appreciate knowing which is the best, stable current SIF image to use to try to get back where I left 4 months ago.

End of tunnel

So the problem was indeed linked to the power supply to the main board, which was obviously screwed up following the board replacement.

I now have a menu.My HDD ticks over nicely.

Back to ground zero.

Could anyone recommend the most stable version of Sifteam to reinstall


Many thanks

TerD

Rebuilding my IPBOX 9000 HD

Thank you Dorosk

My returned box has boot version dated Oct 24/08 18.09.44
Image is DG R7932

If I want to install NLB do I just add it on top of this or
do I need to flash an intermediate image ?

Interesting that there are similar problems reported currently in the forum as the one I had before I sent it back. So was it the motherboard ? I don't know - could have been a software layering issue.

Obviously in replacing the motherboard the dealer screwed up the power access (I did report that even the fan wasn't working).
There's a lot of kit in these IP Boxes for an amateur to mess with.

Regards

TerD

NLB download link

Dorosk,

Would you have a download link for this NLB image?

Thanks, appreciated

TerD

Up and running with NLB

Seemed to work like clockwork.

IP Box is back in Busness again.


TerD

Up and running with NLB: ABCOM Power supply design failure ?

Just to close this thread and say that my IPBOX 9000 HD is running in a stable mode with nlb9207. Had a little setback when I applied the (super) grey skin which caused PANIC when changing between un-scrambled channels, and indeed multiple reboots. Changing back to deep-blue solved this issue ( Dexter said that this grey skin stills needs some work).

So what happened to my IP BOX? Zero feedback from the distributor. The first incident was either a board failure or a power supply failure. When I sent it back they replaced the board, but it still didn't work. I sent it back again and they replaced the power supply. Then it worked. These boxes run pretty hot so in fact I question whether ABCOM's AC/DC power supply unit within the box was under specified. Perhaps to save a few eurocents. I also question if it wouldn't be better to have an external AC/DC converter ( as for laptops), instead of having all of this junk inside a pretty crowded box.

I suspected the power suppy from feedback in this forum when I noticed my Samsung 500gb didn't make any sound on startup, even though the LEDS indicated booting. The Samsung works great, and I thank the Dutch support office who sent me a million jumpers (I only needed one)to easily convert it to SATE I (another stupid oversight on behalf of the ABCOM designers)

That's all

TerD

Sad.
Mine was a power supply problem - Astrasat finally replaced this, painfully slow. They also replaced the main board.Yes, I shipped it back at my cost, absolute pain.

Best of luck, have patience

TerD

Interesting to see how your solution develops as it may help other IPBOX users who could have the same problem. The dealer replaced the board switched the box on , the LEDs lit up and then said, it works and shipped it back to me without verifying that the power was off on the main board. I found this out myself, then sent the box back. This dealer gives good prices but is not hot on tech support, a box mover.This is the 3rd report about failure on IP Boxes. Could be a weakness in the power supply design.

TerD

Did you resolve this?

Hi Compufunk,

Just to find out if you resolved this situation.
I keep my fingers crossed but my IP BOX 9000 HD still
works OK.

Interesting to find out if this is an MTBF issue and if we are each one of 3 (a 3rd similar problem was posted) out of
X thousand users.

Regards

TerD

Why not ask for a new one if it's under guarantee

TerD

Adda 38,

Could be interesting to demand a report on why it failed. Too easy for other dealers to blame this on the 'dumb'user which is what happend to me for 2 months ( actually got told that perhaps I was not the type of person who should have bought this kit, but when I asked for my money back, refused).

TerD