Coincidence????

[simmo]

My Fortec has been working fine, brilliant in fact..
Today, I had to get an Aurora card activated...
Instead of putting it in the box it will eventually end up in, I wacked it in the Fortec, and said to the lady, "hit me.."...
Went back to work....
Came home, and the Fortec is rooted!!!!
Antenna settings are all over the place, (diseqc pos #126!!)
LNB LO = 1
Lnb type = radio, unknown, etc etc
Tried resetting individual settings, but wont do a thing!!
So............The dreaded factory reset..... loaded up a new file, and she goes again...but its gonna take a little while to get everything back to normal!!
Now I dont know, if the thing just decided to crash? or the d/load from Optus killed it....
Just bear it in mind, if you find yourself in the same situation!! Back up your Fortec files!!!

[The Pom]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhh

As in Frank Spencer, "Some mother's Do 'Ave 'Em

[Ocean]

I can sell you a really neat UEC 720...these are a fantastic receiver...great for enabling Aurora cards but very little else.

Any reasonable offer over $1500 considered. The loot will be spent in Cairns, much beer and bait to be had, I could fly QANTAS.... !

I of course jest. My Fortec has no card slot but your drama has been noted.

I wonder what will happen if you set the box up again (for your normal operations), and leave it running again on Aurora with the card in overnight, or until another hit is sent to someone elses' setup ?

It's certainly done some major nasties - unless of course it was, as you suggest, a coincidence.

[blackcrusader]

JTAG TIME :eek: :eek: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[bassett]

Aurora do state that you should use an approved receiver.. Not that I,m saying , YOU should. But that is stated in there blurb. So just perhaps , there is something in there download that does send your software haywire, It would be interesting to see of you did have any recourse with them.. But you would probably get the normal blurb,,
"use an approved receiver"

It might be an idea, if you where to repeat the operation, using a Fortec, with all the frequances deleted, with only the basic Aurora ones loaded, and see if it doe it again.
But one would like to think that you are not the first person to get a card approved in a fortec. But when you think about it, it is really a controdiction in terms, considering what a Fortec has under the lid.. "whats a card"

[adman]

Maybe a old UEC box would be handy for that operation alone?

Just a thought

cheers

adman

is UEC allowed to be metioned?

[Ocean]

NO ....UEC must not be mentioned....unless you are trying to sell one and use the funds for a proper receiver, beer, or flying on a Virgin.

[kyle]

Is that a plane?





:D

[simmo]

I do have a UEC dsd 910 or what ever here for the job!!! But it was in the box, brand spanker, and I thought what the hell, I'll activate the card, prior to the install....
So I plonked it in the Fortec....
I was just conversing with wtyt2, and said the same...When you get an activation, they DO ask you what decoder you are using.
Now, I know for a fact, as we all do, an activated card would work in a Ird box.
BUT!!!!! I said, I am using a UEC DSD910 Aurora box.......
Now, did that mean, that apart from just activating the card, they sent a software blurb, set up the box type thing????
Obviously, a normal UEC box, wouldn't have mobs of sats loaded, and diSEqc pozzies etc, But the Fortec did!!!!!!!
Anyway, I dont wanna diverse into the paytv type scenario, I just thought it would be prudent to mention, that this happened......coincidence or not!!! ;)