a 3m

[canadiandan]

im running a 3m i got from a pal when it first goes to a channel it says 721 but the picture is on 15 mins later 711 comes up but tv is still good 15 mins again and message goes away until you go to another channel anybody know what this means ?danthecanadian

[slimthugga]

seems like a corrupted bin...did you clean ur card good...before putting 3m on....

[canadiandan]

all i do is loop and unloop and write it to the card should i write it and clean then write?man 2 days of this and i'm getting stressed lol

[slimthugga]

is you friend havin' the same problem...

[4x4]

canadiandan ,,

You should superclean the card , it returns it to a virgin state !

[canadiandan]

nope he just loops and unloops and presto tn but me noooooo i gotta have problems lol

[canadiandan]

ok i am going to try a supercleaner and then to hell with it i need a day off i got video burn from trying too much...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[slimthugga]

check your bin info...make sure your updated on that...some bins might be corrupted...then applying 3m...screws the damn thing up...change ch's then 721..then picture comes up...go to ppv says select for ordering then ch. to another ppv channel...721.......try a diff bin...then reset ird...

[canadiandan]

i was using a paid sub but it went invalid acces card maybe i should try to update it sorry to sound dumb at this but im getting fed up with it thanks for the help

[JT]

About 9 months or so ago there was a new kind of 3M called a 'rewriter' made publicly available. These scripts hid their fixes cleaverly, and the fix was activated when the error occured. In other words, the script wouldn't write to the card until the .bin went 711 or 721, etc. These scripts were shown to have a high potential to damage cards, especially if used after the set 'safe to use until' date. It sounds like your friend may have gotten ahold of an old or sub standard 'rewriter' 3M. No way to know for sure unless somebody like mdeven takes a look at it. My advise is to get that thing off your card, clean it real good and start over with something else.

[normsbro]

don't give up to soon, try this, unloop your card, write your valid/sub bin, clean card 3 times with extreme hu, then clean 2 times with superclean 4.0beta, write your activation or 3m hex, do a hard rest/reboot of your reciever.

[canadiandan]

i think its time to clean card put on shelf unplug reciever and put in closet until i figure this out thanks all

[slimthugga]

if it went ivac then original subby swapped cards??????

[canadiandan]

got another card hmmmm got tv again guess my other card a 6b that was showing when read it is a 5b [what does that mean} so i guess the card was no good not the programming have to go beat my head off the wall for a while l8tr all..danthecanadian

[canadiandan]

after all that bullshit it was simple the snow and ice had moved dish a 1/4 of an inch out it wasn't the card or the bin or the 3m its all good now lmao...thanks all for your help...cool site and the input is much appreciated...danthecanadian

[4x4]

Dan , go to Bell World and buy a dish cover , they work great , I had 6" of snow on the cover and I still had a 98% signal ..

[canadiandan]

on my way to extortion ....er....bellworld ...lol thanks for the info