Dreambox 500T 500C Fixes here

thankyou thank you works fine great my mother is over the moon cant thank you as much as i want

 

is the network connection disabled?

null modem rocks lol

good luck

mark ..

 

Alfredous,
When using DCC, have you got the IP addresses for the PC and Dreambox correct? They should both look something like 192.168.1.x . As long as the first digits are the same, then they are on the same network and you've got a LAN. The last digits ("x" in above) don't matter as long as they're different from each other and between 1 and 254. Find out what your PC IP address is (something like 192.168.1.103) and then set the dreambox IP to, for example, 192.168.1.2 using the setup->communications option in the menu. Then input these to DCC & make sure you've selected the right connection option in DCC i.e direct crossover. The login is "root" and the password "dreambox". And whatever you do, when you connect to it don't "flash update" the image using DCC like I did. That's bad. You'll need to use the Telnet function to tell the box to flash itself once you've copied Chris's working image via FTP into the var->tmp folder. There's a "software update" function in the dreambox menu which I think does this too, but I'm not sure since I didn't use it.

The alternative is using Dreamup and a serial null modem cable. Used both methods myself and found the Dreamup/null modem cable method to be far easier to do.

 

alfredous

Probably firewall or antivir blocking

 

I got mine working after a bit of a battle last night. The funny thing is that the standard N*L box, which I pay for, does not seem to work any longer . Some of the channels freeze a bit. How can I sort that out?

 

ring ntl and demand a refund lmao

 

Do you guys pay for N*L digital value package or any package at all? I ask this because I never took off my digital tv package from them. Now I wonder if there is any point in me paying this.

 

too many questions

too much information

good luck

 

The image suppied works.
Read the previous posts, most people come back with appologies...
the image works.
If it does not then it`s you or your area, your signal or whatever.
I know it`s a pain.. this thread (a very valuable one) is now 60 pages long but ALL the answers are here.

So don`t be surprised if you question is not responded to.

BTW gcscott, not scott or whatever name you can`t get right but Chris has helped enough via pm so give him a rest... read the thread.

 

What image was everyone using before this fix just out of curiosity...BTW thanks a lot for all the useful info peeps ive learned a lot over the past few days, I thought you were all crewl to begin with but I have now realised I would have never learned if I had not read through everything before hand..Anyway

 

hi there, i'm new to this forum. i've been reading the posts so thanks to all the contributors. i'm having problems flashing my dbox.
i'm following the instuctions but i am only getting a handful of channels, some fta but others are odd ones s*y sp*rts xtra and V*rgin. any ideas what i'm doing wrong.
help greatly appreciated

 

Hi Guys & Chris

I was wondering whether you could help me with a problem with my DreamBox 500C.

When i try to upload an image, the box connects properly through the null modem cable.

However after the upload DreamUp say "ERROR resetting lock-bits!!

It then says "calculating CRC32 on STB"

I don't know what this means?

Is the box faulty?

How do i fix it?


Thanks Guys

 

MicroMac

Erase the image, reboot then reflash again.

 

help, as of this morning i flashed my dream 500c, rebooted, found all stations but they are still scrambled i have keys but cant get in to where i need to change them. can anyone give me instructions please this would be a great help

 

Not trying to be smart,but you dont say what image you flashed it with, and more to the point, ALL the info you need is all within this thread.
Perhaps if you spend a little time with the "forum search" you'll find all the answers you need ??

 

i've spent the last 3 days going through the forum none of it works. i flashed it with the backup posted on this page today.

 

were are you it works perfect

 

tallaght. i've been to var then i to keys i've no keylist text so i cant change anything. i'm at a complete loss as what to do

 

sent you a pm let know how you get on

tom