510 success

[knight4ever]

I finally have video and hard drive functions. Maybe this will help others. I followed the romcode instructions to the letter, but as i found out on 301.013 and 501's, 508's and 510's first off you have to remarry the hard drive to get past the hard drive error nag. I erased flash 2 ( full erase ) three times, then flashed back with a flash that had same build and p 080 and a virgin eeprom that i created in flashedit. I then cycled power off and then back on for 20 to 30 minutes. The power light stayed on the whole time. No need to hook up sat feed at this point. After 20 to 30 minutes, erase flash 2 again, three times, then flash back with u7 flash to flash 2, the one you made in flashedit with IRD # AND boxkeys provided by romcode software. Also while in flash edit i made another virgin eeprom and loaded both flashed both back to receiver. That married the hard drive back to the receiver. After loading card i still got error 005 ( not authorized to view channel ).
This is where the romcode instructions need some help. Open Hex workshop ( if you don't have it, download it ) and open your good flash 2 that you just made with flashedit, scroll down to line 3FFF40. If at this point you see your IRD # and boxkeys you need to F out the ird # and boxkeys. Then go down to line 3FFFC0. There you will see all F's. Start at beginning of line and insert you IRD# AND boxkeys that you got from romcode software when you programmed your card. Then save that as your flash 2. It may ask to overwrite existing flash 2. Say yes. Now go back and erase flash 2 one more time and reflash with your new flash 2 that you just saved from Hex workshop. Then i also loaded virgin eeprom again. I came this far, i was not taking any more chances. Now hook up receiver to sat. feed, tv, stereo, etc.
You should now have tv within 5 to 10 minutes. I am getting all channels from Super 3m tier patch from rom code softward plus i loaded on several locals from various cities that i knew i could get in my area. I even remapped my local to show up below Channel 100. Been running around one hour. No problems what so ever. This is why i keep coming back to Mili for all my sat. needs. He has always been more than willing to help me. Thanks, Mili and all who was involved for this romcode software.

[knight4ever]

After reading my post, i noticed that it looks like the 301.013 has a hard drive. This is not true. what i meant was that the 301.013 you need to look at line 1FFF40 and see if your ird # and boxkeys are there. if they are, you will need to F them out and go down to line 1FFFC0 and insert your ird # and boxkeys, then follow the rest of my post about reflshing.

[Crazy1_79]

Sounds like the same thing I did to get the AVR-X working before it supported the 510 or 508 nice work knight4ever. Sounds like you were truly testing.

[drwolf]

Knight4ever,

Thanks for the great tips, helped me get my 301.13 going. I was getting the 005 nag card not authorized. I'd like to add what I found and did. On my 301.13 IRD & Box keys were located at 3FFF40 not at 1FFF40, I moved them to 3FFFC0 using hex workshop. Saved file then went back into Flashedit, opened file and fixed CRC saved file again. Then made virgin eeprom from that. Flashed both back IRD working perfect. Now to the 501 that's screwed up from lack of instructions in romcode
Thanks again
drwolf

[mickeyd]

After reading my post, i noticed that it looks like the 301.013 has a hard drive. This is not true. what i meant was that the 301.013 you need to look at line 1FFF40 and see if your ird # and boxkeys are there. if they are, you will need to F them out and go down to line 1FFFC0 and insert your ird # and boxkeys, then follow the rest of my post about reflshing.
knight4ever, you ment that you took a virgin U7 for P080 and your software build and flashed U7 with it and a virgin eeprom for P080 to marry the hard drive on your 501? Then took and added the Romcode IRD and Boxkeys to the U7 flash and loaded it after the hard drive married to P080?

[knight4ever]

I did just as i stated and it worked for me. Now i may not have done a great job of explaining it, but if you are having trouble, i will be more then willing to take my limited knowledge and try to help you out.

[mickeyd]

Thanks for the help.

The part I am messed up on, is that I thought that you took a P080 bin with the same build, DCEA, DCWA, etc. as your IRD and put the IRD# and Boxkeys from Romcode in it then flashed it back to your IRD to marry the hard drive. Yes?

Then what?

[drwolf]

Mickeyd,
I took my u7 bin at p303, edited ird box key info in flashedit. then went hex workshop made sure my my info was at 3FFFC0. Went back to flashedit and made a virgin EEPROM from that. Erased u7 3 times, wrote EEPROM flash 3 times. read EEPROM to make sure it took it. Location A1 in the EEPROM has to be FF to reformat/remarry the drive. Plugged ird in all hooked up, it remarried drive without reformatting all though lost all the stuff on drive. Now it;s up and running, pvr functions working perfectly.

[mickeyd]

So, you are saying that you do not have to use P080 or P063 to remarry the hard drive with the new IRD # and Boxkeys?

[drwolf]

mickeyd
that's what I'm saying, the marrying/format part is in the eeprom at address A1

[slave2fishing]

I have a 510 exsubbed with the rom 102 card that was used in it. Will I need to follow these instructions to use romcode on this setup?

[drwolf]

Slave2fishing
Good possibilty since the exsub cam id should be black listed with charlie. But I would try it first before changing anything.

[pioca]

I just hardly finished to setup my 501.
Patched the bin with new boxkey and receiver id, programmed card and now watching TV. SO looks everything worked out, but the PVR function does not work.

What should I do to get the PVR working again? Should I just erase something in flash2 and get the updates? Is that would fix it?

Do you have any advice?

[drwolf]

pioca,
Reread this thread. You need to make a virgin EEPROM in flash edit and write it to your EEPROM. Location A1 has to be FF for it to remarry/format the harddrive.
drwolf

[pioca]

DrWolf,

When I opened my U7.bin file in Hex Workshop the location 00000A10 shows FF.

Where is the location what I need to FF?

Thank you!

[pioca]

DrWolf,

001A0000 says 1E - Do I need this location to change FF?
What about 001A0001 - 02 - 03 etc...

Thank you for your help!

[drwolf]

pioca,
Location A1 that I was talking about is in the EEPROM, not U7. You have to make a Virgin EEPROM in flash edit and write that to the TSOP with jkey's

[pioca]

Hoops, sorry I got confused.

When I try to read EEPROM I'm getting "error reading from memory" nag.

Any advice on this? Should just try and try and reboot PC also?

[pioca]

How big is the EEPROM should be?

I disconnected HD and I was able to read EEPROM but the size is 8KB...
I changed the A1 location to FF, but the receiver is look like dead.

How can I virginize this 8 kb EEPROM?

[drwolf]

Pioca,
Look at my last post. Open your U7 flash in FLASH EDIT, then click on save as, then save as VIRGIN EEPROM. Then reconnect hard drive no need to disconnect it. Then write the VIRGIN EEPROM you just made to the eeprom. The EEPROM file size is 8K for your info.

[Ohms]

Mickeyd,
I took my u7 bin at p303, edited ird box key info in flashedit. then went hex workshop made sure my my info was at 3FFFC0. Went back to flashedit and made a virgin EEPROM from that. Erased u7 3 times, wrote EEPROM flash 3 times. read EEPROM to make sure it took it. Location A1 in the EEPROM has to be FF to reformat/remarry the drive. Plugged ird in all hooked up, it remarried drive without reformatting all though lost all the stuff on drive. Now it;s up and running, pvr functions working perfectly.


drwolf,
Just want to make sure I get it.
take your current TSOP and save it. Open with hexedit and check 3FFFC0 to be sure the correct IRD# shows up there. Save a virgin EEPROM from this TSOP image with the IRD# and BK info you want to use. Open the EEPROM image with hexedit, and verify that location 0000A1 in the EEPROM image is FF.

Just so you know, I checked a couple of my eeproms i has saved. the one for remarrying has 000000A1 set to FF, while the one that is up and running married has 000000A1 set to AC

If this is true, we have all been fighting with P63, p75, and p80 images with the wrong build configs for a long time for no good reason. All we needed to do is fix up an EEPROM from our existing current TSOPS.

Is this correct? Thanks for posting this BTW. I do a lot of PVRs and if this is true, sure wish I had know about it a long time ago. :)

[pioca]

May I ask how do you save virgin EEPROM from a TSOP image?

I can get TSOP image by jkeys. I can modify the TSOP image to accomodate Boxkey and receiver#. I was able to writthe TSOP back and I can watch TV. But I had to disconnect my hard drive to get it to work. Now when I try to connect HD i'm getting error.

Any solution for this?
How can I create virgin EEPROM from TSOP? When I try to read EEPROM through jkeys I'm getting a 8KB file. ... but the HD is disconnected...

I'm getting confused... no I'm confused already.

[drwolf]

Ohms,
Yes you are correct but it's ird and box keys at location 3FFFC0, if you find them at Location 3FFF40, FF them out and the 2 bytes to the right @ Location 3FFFCC and CD-they are a CRC-16/CCITT Checksum of the IRD and Box Keys, you can use hex workshop to generate the checksum also. If you use flash edit and make a vigin eeprom it will make location A1 FF for you and then just write it back. In the EEPROM is were it store's your future recorded events also. After you reset the IRD it won't have to format the drive just marry to it, so don't expect the drive light to stay on. I did this with my P303 firmware and it wouldn't update. So I took my P308 and did it to it worked like a charm. If I can help you out in any way let me know.
drwolf

[drwolf]

Pioca,
Reread my post just above Ohm,'s post read it slow and follow it. It tells you how to make a VIRGIN EEPROM and it's 8Kb that's all. You just need to use the U7 flash that you put into the IRD, no need to reread it. Then reconnect the hard drive (power off) and then write the VIRGIN EEPROM file you just made to the IRD. If you need more help I'm here.

[knight4ever]

drwolf, you seem to be very knowledgable on these dvr's. I have a question for you. I know that maybe somewhere on this site is the answer, but since we are on the subject of marrying hard drives, my question is this. I bought my 510 from mili. it had the jtag connector on the back along with the vid mod done so i could use a rom 10 in it. But i lost part of my hard drive capacity. Now that i am using a rom 102 card, i know i can go back to using my full hard drive capacity of 100 hours. It took me long enough to marry my hard drive back that i did not attempt to change the capacity back to 100 hours. How do i do this? And will i have to remarry the hard drive again after getting back my full capacity? If there is a good how to, i would appreciate a nudge in the right direction. If not, you seem to know quite a bit about these. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

[drwolf]

knight4ever,
Sounds like the drive needs formatting again, it's not formatted to capacity. See if you can find Maxtor's or the drive manufacturer's hard drive utility, Maxtor's is PowerMax i think and wipe the drive clean. Unfortunatly you'll have to make a vigin eeprom from the U7 flash your using and write it back so that it can reformat and marry the drive again. Hope this helps, sorry for the bad news though.

[pioca]

DrWolf,

I created a virgin bin from the U7.bin file.
I even programmed two times the EEPROM with this virgin image. Checked that A1 location says FF.
After I connected the hard drive, but unfortunately it does not work. When I try to write to EEPROM with HD connected, I'm getting error.
The red and green lights are up on the receiver and the receiver does not do as much at all. :(

What should I do? Maybe the sequence, or maybe I need a new HD....

Thank you for taking your time...

[drwolf]

Pioca,
If both the light's are on after writing to the EEPROM, it could be formatting the drive and that can take some time, heard story's of up to 1/2 hour, so leave it alone for a while and see what happens.

[pioca]

The lights were up over 8 hours. Nothing happend.
Tonight I will continue my experiment :) I will try to do step by step what the first post says.

[mickeyd]

The lights were up over 8 hours. Nothing happend.
Tonight I will continue my experiment :) I will try to do step by step what the first post says.
I have had that problem, both lights on, before on more than one PVR and more than once on one PVR.

It usually means:
1. 01J is still grounded
2. A bad write to U7
or
3. A bad bin

If 01J is not still grounded, then rewrite U7. Make sure that you have a good battery. 8.9 volts will not ensure a good write.
If you still have the problem, re-create you bin.

[skinerd]

Pioca,
If both the light's are on after writing to the EEPROM, it could be formatting the drive and that can take some time, heard story's of up to 1/2 hour, so leave it alone for a while and see what happens.

I have done a "few" 501s, and never takes more than a couple minutes to remarry. When you power up to remarry, both lights on means it ain't gonna work.

[Ohms]

Skinerd,
If you have not already, look up in this thread to drwolf's posts about not needing to do the p075 firmware to get the hd to marry. I would like to get your take on it. I have not tried this yet, but he says it worked for him. Pretty cool if it works consistantly. I would like to get your take on it if you have time.

[mickeyd]

I followed DrWolf's method and it worked exactly as advertised.

No more P063 or P080 for me.

[Darkbob]

May I ask how do you save virgin EEPROM from a TSOP image?

I can get TSOP image by jkeys. I can modify the TSOP image to accomodate Boxkey and receiver#. I was able to writthe TSOP back and I can watch TV. But I had to disconnect my hard drive to get it to work. Now when I try to connect HD i'm getting error.

Any solution for this?
How can I create virgin EEPROM from TSOP? When I try to read EEPROM through jkeys I'm getting a 8KB file. ... but the HD is disconnected...

I'm getting confused... no I'm confused already.

I feel your pain. I was there yesterday.

Use Jkeys to read your U6 and U7 TSOP's into a file.

Use Flash Edit to load up your U7 TSOP. Flash Edit can muck around with the TSOP BUT it also has the ability to generate a blank virgin Eeprom using the TSOP as a base. Don't confuse the two. You still use Flash Edit to change the IRD and box Keys in your TSOP. Jkeys can write the new TSOP to your IRD. BUT Jkeys can also write a new eeprom to your IRD and that's a totally different thing to a totally different chip. Jkeys needs an Eeprom image to write and Flash Edit generates this Eeprom from U7's TSOP.

Load your TSOP into Flash Edit. Change the box keys and IRD number. Save the TSOP. Then take a look at the Flash Edit program and you will see Virginize Eeprom in a drop-down list. That will save a different file - your virgin Eeprom.

Hard to believe you can use one chip to generate data for a different chip but it's true.

I didn't know the difference between this extra eeprom and my TSOP till yesterday so I can really see where the confusion comes in.

--DB