Hi all,
Got a sammy which never took the vermin update, it was stuck in a loop downloading update for a week. Anyhow finally decided to get it out of the cupboard and have another go. Finally got it to the powering up..just a moment screen. But no further. Everytime I poweroff and reboot it downloads the update again and eventually back to powering up. Also from boot up I can't get it into engineers mode either. Any ideas? Exc&W Thanks in advance.
BTW I have seen another post for a 4001 in powerup mode, but thats on nthell. Also does not say it has the same problems with engineers mode.. Which bits of the post below would I have to do?
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This is what i done with two 4001 boxs that were stuck on virgin media powering up.tried everything but eventually worked it out.these boxes are supposed to set ther own net id but with the new virgin update sometimes it dosent so the box cant lock to the frequency and wont be able to boot up.so the solution is to make a net id funcard then open your 4001 box pull the red jumper for 20secs put it back in, then go to engineers menu by holding up and down on the box while powering up.then set your freq to what it should be(pure ntl 755.00)then go to page with net id (should be all stars)and put in your net id funcard.your box should then switch off to tune.if not you need to do your funcard again.after all that put your other funcard back in to box and reboot again holding up and right on the box,will prob go to tune ,but leave for a couple of hours and it should update.the only thing about this if you pull the jumper you will lose your pin access for the movies.also if you can access eng menu before you pull the jumper check that your frequency and net id are correct if your net id isnt correct use this method.if your freq and net id are correct give the box a direct feed(bypassing splitters etc ,as close to ntl connection to your house)and power up holding up and right.hope this helps someone
Got a sammy which never took the vermin update, it was stuck in a loop downloading update for a week. Anyhow finally decided to get it out of the cupboard and have another go. Finally got it to the powering up..just a moment screen. But no further. Everytime I poweroff and reboot it downloads the update again and eventually back to powering up. Also from boot up I can't get it into engineers mode either. Any ideas? Exc&W Thanks in advance.
BTW I have seen another post for a 4001 in powerup mode, but thats on nthell. Also does not say it has the same problems with engineers mode.. Which bits of the post below would I have to do?
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This is what i done with two 4001 boxs that were stuck on virgin media powering up.tried everything but eventually worked it out.these boxes are supposed to set ther own net id but with the new virgin update sometimes it dosent so the box cant lock to the frequency and wont be able to boot up.so the solution is to make a net id funcard then open your 4001 box pull the red jumper for 20secs put it back in, then go to engineers menu by holding up and down on the box while powering up.then set your freq to what it should be(pure ntl 755.00)then go to page with net id (should be all stars)and put in your net id funcard.your box should then switch off to tune.if not you need to do your funcard again.after all that put your other funcard back in to box and reboot again holding up and right on the box,will prob go to tune ,but leave for a couple of hours and it should update.the only thing about this if you pull the jumper you will lose your pin access for the movies.also if you can access eng menu before you pull the jumper check that your frequency and net id are correct if your net id isnt correct use this method.if your freq and net id are correct give the box a direct feed(bypassing splitters etc ,as close to ntl connection to your house)and power up holding up and right.hope this helps someone
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