The dredded thing has happened i uploaded phantom patch 140 and the stb was working fine for weeks but yesterday the volume button on the remote would not change the volume the tm was showing that it was getting a signal from the remote. So i tried uploading the official original tm firmware from the technomate.uk site 140 ,but when in proces of uploading it got stuck at 21%
and after 10 minutes i had no option but to turn it of at the back and hope for the best,but my tm is dead now.I often though this would happen while uploading a patch but never with original firmware.
I woud like to know what is the proper proces for recovering my 7100
I have a 15mtr long null/cat5 cable and i tried loading patches with this before
But i never got it to work yet.

using the all tm loader from here

Download center

connect your null modem lead, and load the firmware into the loader, click connect then turn on the power to the receiver, and the file should start sending, itll take a while to send

oncedone, turn the power off and back on, and you should be good to go again

nothing happening yet does a message have to come up saying that it's connecting to reciever? Maybe it's the null lead ,a friend electrician made it up for me following the instructions in the tm manual, when i was trying get sssp working on my old 6900 non super but i never got a connection on that eighter.I'll go and get an new one and try again later.

15metr. is very long the null cable.
before you buy new try this
click connect, wait 5 seconds then turn on the power to the receiver.
if nothing happend again the next step wait 8 or ten seconds.

the lead is not as easy to come by as i thought spend a few hours going around town and they are all trying to sell me a vga lead.one shop said they would have it for me today,so fingers crossed.

anybody know a good place online to buy the null modem lead maybe in ireland
maybe a link please ?No shop realy sells them around here.

Originally Posted by thijss26

anybody know a good place online to buy the null modem lead maybe in ireland
maybe a link please ?No shop realy sells them around here.

Had the same problem getting one long enough ended up on ebay this might help.

null modem cable | eBay UK

The one I got was about 10ft

Any Decent computer shop should know where to get them.
they cost no more than 5 euros... !


Of course a long one .... mmmmm not so easy to find.

no i'm trying to get a short one and all the computer shops around the town i'm living are gone bust i tried all the electral shops and they don't even know what i'm talking about, looks like i have to go for a drive over the weekend so.

finnaly got a lead connected to comp. and stb. loaded the finest back up and running again.thanks for the help lads