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dangdawg

02-25-2005, 08:02 AM

I picked up this 508 from a friend of mine. It was a victim of an ecm. Seems he decided to wipe out the tsop's without backing them up first (he watched me do the vidmod on it and program it; decided to try programming/fixing it himself). So I get this receiver completely blank. Fine. I'll just grab a new bin for it and load 'er up. No problem, right? Wrong.
I grabbed a DC3D P068 bin from the tsop bank (build matches MB cfg), loaded it up in flashedit, did the usual (crc fix, IRD & BK's). I fired up jkeys 301/508 (set to 508/5800) erased U6 and U7 three times each, loaded U7 first, erased U6 again, loaded U6, changed 7FFFFFAC in flash 2 to 0000, and loaded up a virgin eeprom created when I did the tsop bins. I plugged it in, and the IRD number comes up completely different than what I programmed in flashedit. Not only that, when I plug in the atmega it says that the card version isn't compatible. I went back in and double checked; the IRD number and BK's show up as programmed in flashedit and 7FFFFFAC is still 0000.
So I gave up on that load, and did the same process with another bin. Same result. IRD number is different, and it won't accept the atmega.
Am I doing something wrong here? Should I use a different version of Jkeys? I can't, for the life of me, figure out how come it won't show the IRD number that I loaded and keeps rejecting the atmega.
Thanks!

outlaw1960

02-25-2005, 01:28 PM

Dis you remember to that you have to use the " Moved IRD Info " option in Flashedit when using, also, erase Flash 2/U7 3 times first then erase Flash 1/u6. Now, write Flash 2, then load Eeprom. Don't bother to load Flash 1, Let it be fixed by the Stream.

skinerd

02-25-2005, 06:59 PM

There are 3 versions of PVR flashes...........you must select the right one, as the boxkeys are stored in different loctions of the 3 flash types. Only way to know which version you have is to open it in flashedit, for a 508 or 510, (as outlaw said above) MOVED IRD INFO is the correct choice.

3 flash types:

501/5100

"moved bootstrap"

"moved ird info"

dangdawg

02-26-2005, 12:33 AM

That did it. It shows up with the proper IRD number now.
Only problem now is it won't accept the atmega... I checked 7FFFFFAC and it's still 0000, also tried erasing SA60, but to no avail. I changed the IRD and BK on this atmega and it works fine in another 508 I have sitting here.

Thanks tons for your help so far. Much appreciated! :)

skinerd

02-26-2005, 01:14 AM

dangdawg

02-26-2005, 03:39 AM

flash it up?
Do you mean reflash it with another bin?

skinerd

02-26-2005, 03:41 AM

flash it up?
Do you mean reflash it with another bin?

FLash it with a lete flash, like P221 or higher, keeping the same receiver number and boxkeys.......

dangdawg

02-26-2005, 07:01 AM

And I won't have any problems with the hard drive marrying to the IRD? I've heard of problems like that... just never tried it.

Thanks again for your time, Skinerd. Much appreciated!

ynot-try

02-26-2005, 07:26 AM

if you used the original ird number and boxkeys you should be ok if in doubt and you still have the virgin flash loaded remove hard drive and zero out that way it will remarry.
i have flashed up from virgin but like you say will not do it on atmega you will be able to use a rom 3 or rom 10 as you have the 0000 already it may not recognise a yellow card.

skinerd

02-26-2005, 08:21 AM

It must marry with virgin flash, then you can flash it up if the receiver number and boxkeys remain constant........

dangdawg

02-27-2005, 07:12 PM

I flashed it with a P223 and she's up and running good now. Thanks everyone. :)