Regman
02-08-2004, 11:50 AM
I just want to get some opinions on a possible hardware issue or something I did wrong. The problem is my UTV does not recognize my access card. It continues to give “Please insert access card”. When ever a system test it the card comes up "Unkown"
Let me give a little background on the situation. My friend gave me his UTV, since he decided to go the Tivo route. This UTV is a refurbished unit from the manufacturer. It was still under warrantee for a bad #1 tuner. My friend never tested it when he got it back from repair. I never did also (my mistake). The UTV did not come with the P4 card. My friend kept it.
I have a spare HU card so I needed to downgrade to 3.5. I used a spare HD as to not mess with the original HD (plus it was bigger). Everything went fine with the “x00 fill and clone disk.” I got the sources (3.5 and 3.7) from tivostuff. The unit powered up and I verified the version to be 3.5. The unit recognizes a card is being inserted because you can here a beep, then it tries to call MSN because the card is detected as Unknown. I assume there is a sensor when inserting a card, since I stuck the card in backwards to test it and it did the same thing.
Since then, I have “mhd3” the HD and reloaded 3.7 and the same thing. I even got a P4 card and I still get the same problem. I did all the reboot/reset sequences (Menu-Menu-Menu-23552355). So I went back to the original HD and for some reason, it no longer liked that drive. I had to “mhd3” the original HD and tried both 3.5 and 3.7 with both my HU and P4 cards. Still no luck.
I just wanted to get any input if people might think this is a bum UTV unit or anything else I should try. I searched this forum and others out there, but have not found a similar type of problem.
Sorry this is long-winded message.
Regman
Let me give a little background on the situation. My friend gave me his UTV, since he decided to go the Tivo route. This UTV is a refurbished unit from the manufacturer. It was still under warrantee for a bad #1 tuner. My friend never tested it when he got it back from repair. I never did also (my mistake). The UTV did not come with the P4 card. My friend kept it.
I have a spare HU card so I needed to downgrade to 3.5. I used a spare HD as to not mess with the original HD (plus it was bigger). Everything went fine with the “x00 fill and clone disk.” I got the sources (3.5 and 3.7) from tivostuff. The unit powered up and I verified the version to be 3.5. The unit recognizes a card is being inserted because you can here a beep, then it tries to call MSN because the card is detected as Unknown. I assume there is a sensor when inserting a card, since I stuck the card in backwards to test it and it did the same thing.
Since then, I have “mhd3” the HD and reloaded 3.7 and the same thing. I even got a P4 card and I still get the same problem. I did all the reboot/reset sequences (Menu-Menu-Menu-23552355). So I went back to the original HD and for some reason, it no longer liked that drive. I had to “mhd3” the original HD and tried both 3.5 and 3.7 with both my HU and P4 cards. Still no luck.
I just wanted to get any input if people might think this is a bum UTV unit or anything else I should try. I searched this forum and others out there, but have not found a similar type of problem.
Sorry this is long-winded message.
Regman