So got my self a new sky box f5 and did a multi sat search(big mistake),so i didnt have a computer with a serial port,so i ordered one of the cheap usb converters off face book.when that came i then realised that i never checked to see if it was male or female.
It was male so now i had a male to male connection,so up to my local shop and got a female to female connection to add on to it, usb to male,male to female cable and that connected to the box.i had read about the usb to serial not working properly but i still tried.
So i keep trying by using the upgrade tool and the upgrade tool from the skyboxs website,all this with no luck two hours later and i was still couldnt get the box to flash.i had all but given up and i came accross another site and a person claiming that he was able to do it via this version of the upgrade tool,so i had nothing to lose so i downloaded it and on my first go it worked.i couldnt believe it.
I thought i was one of the lucky few that got it to work via usb. here is where the upgrade tool is.im not able to upload attachments. my os that i was using was Windows 7 pro x64
Now my next problem is that i updated the firmware to the latest and when i do a channel scan im not getting that many channels compared to when box was updated.
It was male so now i had a male to male connection,so up to my local shop and got a female to female connection to add on to it, usb to male,male to female cable and that connected to the box.i had read about the usb to serial not working properly but i still tried.
So i keep trying by using the upgrade tool and the upgrade tool from the skyboxs website,all this with no luck two hours later and i was still couldnt get the box to flash.i had all but given up and i came accross another site and a person claiming that he was able to do it via this version of the upgrade tool,so i had nothing to lose so i downloaded it and on my first go it worked.i couldnt believe it.
I thought i was one of the lucky few that got it to work via usb. here is where the upgrade tool is.im not able to upload attachments. my os that i was using was Windows 7 pro x64
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Now my next problem is that i updated the firmware to the latest and when i do a channel scan im not getting that many channels compared to when box was updated.