5100 virgin TSOP P079 DCFA, DCFD.....

[stugats]

Hi Guys, I'am new as of today I have fairly enough knowledge, of charlie and bev, what I need is a 501 virgin tsop P079, I need to marry my new HD for my bev 5100, I have to replace it the old one does not work anymore, anyway I searched your tsop bank and to no availability did I find DCFA, DCFD or any DCF.....something, lots of DCKA's, maybe somebody else can direct me. I have P053 virgin but that's no good or is it? Please help. thanks
:)

[subway05]

I am totatly new with this, I need help to get started , and advice on what i should by , If anyone can help Thank you

[Dave411]

Hi Guys, I'am new as of today I have fairly enough knowledge, of charlie and bev, what I need is a 501 virgin tsop P079, I need to marry my new HD for my bev 5100, I have to replace it the old one does not work anymore, anyway I searched your tsop bank and to no availability did I find DCFA, DCFD or any DCF.....something, lots of DCKA's, maybe somebody else can direct me. I have P053 virgin but that's no good or is it? Please help. thanks
:)

P053 is pretty early, but should work if you are still using only a 40 gig HDD. Don`t think P053 would support 80 or 120 gigs. Also might depend on what brand drive you are using to replace. Some replacement drives might not be supported in that early a firmware version. Anyway, you can always give it a shot.

[stugats]

Thanks dave411, I'am puting in a 80G and it is supported I checked my firware in HEX editor and I found a 80G model from seagate so I must get P079 firware.
Any direction would be good, thanks.

[Dave411]

If you cant find a DCFX virgin TSOP, I would go ahead and use any DCKX just to marry HDD. Then once the HDD is married, reload your present TSOP. The drive should marry fine (meaning no HDD errors), but the PVR functions will probably not be available until you reload your current firmware. That`s OK as long as you dont get the HDD error on bootup. One caveat: I have not replaced a HDD with a new one, so you may need to zero HDD first, if you haven`t already, with maxblast or some similar program, but not sure.