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[QUOTE=&quot;divxhacker, post: 14770, member: 1345&quot;]I got this one off eBay: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ370195593042">DISH NETWORK DTVPAL DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER BOX - eBay (item 370195593042 end time May-07-09 19:55:31 PDT)</a>It says:&quot;WARNING 061ATTEMPTING RECOVERYElapsed Time: xxxxxx&quot;1st BOOT:180S2nd BOOT:120BHWID: TCGARECID: xxxxxxxxx&quot;Vital program information needs to be downloaded to your receiver. Please wait and do not disturb or unplug it until this screen disappears.&quot;Status: Scanning.&quot;If they mentioned the exact error in the eBay listing, it wouldn't have gotten sold. I'll try to get&nbsp; in touch with the local DirectTV branch, maybe I can get it reflashed.It's been obviously opened, and could be the one mentioned in the competing board, where the owener tried to add features by shorting the 2-pin headerless jumper. Unfortunately, shorting the jumper activates the &quot;Force Firmware Download&quot; function. So this box is looking for a signal to receive the firmware. Why they left this unsoldered jumper in the schematics, I'll never know.Opening it showed a standard Thomson (RCA) tuner. So at a point after this one, they switched the RCA tuner box&nbsp; out to a shield-boxed Microtune chip to make the DTVPal Plus.The DirectTV office would fix this, hopefully, by attaching a special box that transmits the signal the box is looking for and then the data to be downloaded as if it was a signal coming from a DirectTV antenna. It hooks up with the DTV Pal's power supply, RF IN and RF OUT - that's how they program these boxes with the software after they're fresh off the assembly line.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="divxhacker, post: 14770, member: 1345"]I got this one off eBay: [url=http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ370195593042]DISH NETWORK DTVPAL DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER BOX - eBay (item 370195593042 end time May-07-09 19:55:31 PDT)[/url] It says: "WARNING 061 ATTEMPTING RECOVERY Elapsed Time: xxxxxx "1st BOOT:180S 2nd BOOT:120B HWID: TCGA RECID: xxxxxxxxx "Vital program information needs to be downloaded to your receiver. Please wait and do not disturb or unplug it until this screen disappears. "Status: Scanning." If they mentioned the exact error in the eBay listing, it wouldn't have gotten sold. I'll try to get in touch with the local DirectTV branch, maybe I can get it reflashed. It's been obviously opened, and could be the one mentioned in the competing board, where the owener tried to add features by shorting the 2-pin headerless jumper. Unfortunately, shorting the jumper activates the "Force Firmware Download" function. So this box is looking for a signal to receive the firmware. Why they left this unsoldered jumper in the schematics, I'll never know. Opening it showed a standard Thomson (RCA) tuner. So at a point after this one, they switched the RCA tuner box out to a shield-boxed Microtune chip to make the DTVPal Plus. The DirectTV office would fix this, hopefully, by attaching a special box that transmits the signal the box is looking for and then the data to be downloaded as if it was a signal coming from a DirectTV antenna. It hooks up with the DTV Pal's power supply, RF IN and RF OUT - that's how they program these boxes with the software after they're fresh off the assembly line.[/QUOTE]

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