How to tell when a Card is Dead

[JT]

I wouldn't trust the voltmeter test. There is another great thread that outlines this procedure and peeps results. Technically, they have to establish technical specs that guarantee a certain number rewrites to the chip. However, this number should be considered an absolute minumum number, not the ceiling. In functional terms, there is no limit to how many times the card can be written to assuming a destructive code is never written.

[mdeven]

I heard at one time you can only write to a card "x" number of times before it goes "Dead" and you can no longer write too it or access it. If this is true other then counting the number of time that you have wrote to your card is there any way to tell?

JT is right.... There is nothing proving a finite amount of writes that a card can take....
There was alot of talk awhile back about "card burner" scripts.... They were said to almost constantly write to the card and that was bad.... Bullshit! Face it folks, every time you turn the IRD on, your card is being written to.... Every time DTV updates the tier info, your card is written to.... It just gets written all the time....
I'm sure you'll figure it out when it dies....
Mark