Latest update of the LAN saga. First please be advised that the RT5370 wifi usb dongle works perfectly in my DM520HD running OpenPLI 8 but not...
Update. I have now found that the RT5370 wifi usb dongle does not seem to be supported on a DM520 box running OpenPli 5 but it works just fine on...
Thanks Johnny. I have now sourced the KRJ-003NL from China for $11 including shipping. I'll let you know when I get it if that was the problem. In...
Thanks, what you say seems very sensible. I have a wifi usb stick that I tried, but it has an RTL8188SU chipset and cannot find a suitable driver...
Thanks Johnny. Do you think that the bad block table founf at.... is significant and could infact point to a CPU problem that could cause this LAN...
Thanks very much for all your replies. I have done some more testing and almost concluded it is not a network problem. The mac address of the box...
Hi everybody. I wonder if you could help me with a very strange problem with my DM520HD original. From one day to the next the lan started to...
Thanks Johnny
I hope I am not contravening any forum rules with this post, but it just occurred to me that, as I am not able to fix my box, somebody might be...
I couldn't agree more. I already have a dm520 and my dm500hd was only for playing so no great loss but i like a challenge and might persevere to...
I'll get myself a magnifying lense and have a good look when I come back next week. In the meantime it just occurred to me that it might be...
Thanks for that. Before I got your suggestions I had already checked the various voaltages as per your drawings: Fault finder pinout all ok, but...
Many thanks. I'll have another look more thouroughly. In the meantime I have logged the boot log with putty which might give you a clue. The bit I...
I dropped my DM500HD and it is now stuck on the ferrari logo and green led. I had a look inside but cannot see anything disconnected or broken....
My box is a sim 2.1 and it always was from new. How can the sim get damaged by messing around with the images, dreamup, optiflasher ecc? Do any of...
Ah, loads of things possibly wrong. Obviously the more I messed around with it the worst I made it. Well, will see what the repairer manages to do...
Yes I had the same fear that something might be wrong with the sim, but I get the correct leds at stage 8 and also I get "second stage ok" at the...
Couldn't agree more, it it aint broke don't fix it. Silly me. Still too late now. By the way I have tried tried the bad sectors option, but as...
Great explanations, many thanks. My box is a clone with sim 2.10. I tried various dreamups but no luck, just different errors but more often than...
Checked the bios settings and it is set to dhcp. Checked the voltages and they all are 2.504V which I assume is within the range. Tried to flash...