I purchased a dbox2 recently, and was busy last night mounting points for recording, and experimenting with streaming n stuff.
Basically, during a process of trial and error, the box got its knickers in a twist and was telling me that the recording would be cancelled (mnt was invalid or something). However, it would not stop telling me this repeatedly, no matter what I did, so I was forced to turn off at the mains.
Now, heres where it gets infuriating....
1. The box is deffo a 2, not a 1, but it's in the plastic shell of a 1!
2. The LCD had already been removed as it was not working
3. Behind the panel there are 3 buttons in a horizontal row, but no indication what they do. (just the bare metal shell in there!)
I have googled to death for images/manuals, but simply can't find what these are, so at the very least, if someone could tell me what these are, that would help. I don't want to start experimenting in case it isn't broken but I somehow wipe the image by holding down combinations.
So right now, when I switch on, nothing happens, but, I do get green flashes on the front of the box in response to any button press from the remote, and the ethernet port is kicking out a signal too, so it's not completely dead. I have tried pinging repeatedly whilst diagnosing (in case it could start network services, but no joy)
Having done as much googling as I can, I have come up with the following possibilites :-
1. Internal fuse blown - Not very electronics minded, so would guess if this was the case it would be PROPER dead??
2. It needs some sort of hardware reboot - Can only find minimal patchy info that not 100% even applies to a dbox2. Would try but don't want to make things worse!
3. It's proper poorly - but I havn't tinkered inside
?The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. April 2009 @ 06:52
OK, as the screen has been removed, is there ANY way of firing this thing back up???
If it has got its knickers in a twist, is their a default IP that I could try??
Is it worth using a serial cable? If I can connect with serial cable, will I be able to setup the basic stuff that you would normally do with the 3 front button?
My gut feeling is the box isn't totally mashed as like I say my router still has an active port light.
?The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.?
Whatever you say, say nothing when you talk about you know what for if you know who might hear you, you know what youll get. Youll be sent off to you know where for you would not know how long. Maybe I could search through the threads so you dont have to ??
?The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21. April 2009 @ 06:54
