Hi all,
I have a Humax F2-1010T that has decided not to work. When I turn it on it does the following;
The standby LED on the box goes off then comes on and is red. The TV displays a green screen, then a grey screen and a dialog box opens with the following words;
Humax Loader C3.57
Load Application
A yellow bar moves across in the dialog box from left to right and above it on the right hand end a number steps up from 0% to 100%. When it reaches 100% the standby LED goes green and the TV screen goes grey. The whole process keeps repeating and takes about 8 seconds.
Nothing I do will stop it. I have unplugged it from the power for a couple of days but it has not cleared the fault.
The Humax technician says it is probably a hardware fault. Is there someone with good technical knowledge who can give me some ideas?
Thanks.
Cheers
J.G
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Hi J.G.
I have just encountered the same problem with my F2-1010T. It started happening after I deleted all channels and used the auto scan. It found all of the channels fine but when I selected OK at the end, the box seemed to restart and now the exact same problem you described is occurring.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
rbjt
I have just encountered the same problem with my F2-1010T. It started happening after I deleted all channels and used the auto scan. It found all of the channels fine but when I selected OK at the end, the box seemed to restart and now the exact same problem you described is occurring.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
rbjt
Add my one to the list. It was a good little box.
If this is the model with the 12V plug-pak power supply, source another supply and see if that fixes it.
Needs to be a regulated plug-pak rated 12V, 1.5Amp (18W) or better.
Works for me.
Needs to be a regulated plug-pak rated 12V, 1.5Amp (18W) or better.
Works for me.
That power pack was the first thing I checked. Plus its internal power supply regulator which was low on its +12 v to the main board. Brought it back up to 12v but still the loading loop.
My response is based on a sample size of 1. Fault was unwork.
Picked on the plug-pak as my experience has been majority of stb failures are power supply related.
Picked on the plug-pak as my experience has been majority of stb failures are power supply related.
QUOTE (M'bozo @ May 29 2008, 04:18 AM) 
My response is based on a sample size of 1. Fault was unwork.
Picked on the plug-pak as my experience has been majority of stb failures are power supply related.
Picked on the plug-pak as my experience has been majority of stb failures are power supply related.
Thanks for replying . I was hoping it was just the powerpack causing the fault but alas it was not so.
QUOTE (dryfry @ May 29 2008, 11:10 PM)
Thanks for replying . I was hoping it was just the powerpack causing the fault but alas it was not so.
dryfry,
There must be a design problem either in the hardware or firmware. The Humax technician told me that my box has probably developed a hardware fault, but I have my doubts. Maybe the only way to fix it is by changing the hardware (ie the printed circuit board). All the boxes that have died that I have heard about seem to have done so when doing a channel scan or some form of update, so it is a mighty coincidence that the hardware died in all of them just then. Sounds like there is an inbuilt problem that stops them from working when they are loading updates.
I don't know if the Humax manufacturer would be able to shed some light on the problem, the local agent didn't.
Cheers,
J.G
I can update the stb using the Humax Oak loader but getting it to be a reciever it just falls at the last hurdle.(green screen then starts up again.)
But it was my first DVB-T stb I bought it back in 2004.Now I have a Digicrystal PVR, Hotchip ODT4000 working again after replaced caps and a Sony DST-HD500.
But it was my first DVB-T stb I bought it back in 2004.Now I have a Digicrystal PVR, Hotchip ODT4000 working again after replaced caps and a Sony DST-HD500.
QUOTE (dryfry @ Jun 6 2008, 08:20 PM)
I can update the stb using the Humax Oak loader but getting it to be a reciever it just falls at the last hurdle.(green screen then starts up again.)
But it was my first DVB-T stb I bought it back in 2004.Now I have a Digicrystal PVR, Hotchip ODT4000 working again after replaced caps and a Sony DST-HD500.
But it was my first DVB-T stb I bought it back in 2004.Now I have a Digicrystal PVR, Hotchip ODT4000 working again after replaced caps and a Sony DST-HD500.
dryfry,
I haven't tried loading firmware. On the Humax site there are three .hdf files, sid1932.hdf, C357.hdf and
AMTF10004.hdf. I can't tell from the instructions if it installs the loader or just the AMTF file.
Do you know what the sid1932.hdf file is?
Cheers,
J.G
By the looks of it sid1932 rewrites the system ID.
http://www.humaxdigital.com/hcsa/download/...ts/F2-1010T.asp
http://www.humaxdigital.com/hcsa/download/...ts/F2-1010T.asp
QUOTE (dryfry @ Jun 11 2008, 12:11 AM)
By the looks of it sid1932 rewrites the system ID.
http://www.humaxdigital.com/hcsa/download/...ts/F2-1010T.asp
http://www.humaxdigital.com/hcsa/download/...ts/F2-1010T.asp
dryfry,
Thanks for your reply. Did your firmware load sucessfully?
If it did wouldn't that imply that the hardware that runs the newly loaded software is probably OK and that the box crashing problem is in the firmware/software?
Cheers
J.G
QUOTE (J.G @ Jun 12 2008, 12:39 PM)
dryfry,
Thanks for your reply. Did your firmware load sucessfully?
If it did wouldn't that imply that the hardware that runs the newly loaded software is probably OK and that the box crashing problem is in the firmware/software?
Cheers
J.G
Thanks for your reply. Did your firmware load sucessfully?
If it did wouldn't that imply that the hardware that runs the newly loaded software is probably OK and that the box crashing problem is in the firmware/software?
Cheers
J.G
Yep it loaded succesfully. I now think its a separate hardware problem thats causing the "stuck in a loop" fault.
Anyway I'll keep it for as long as I can and hopefully the problem can be sorted.
An older thread I know.
Been given one of these junk items to 'see if I can get it going - again'. It had been loaded with Newcastle digital services some time back, but one day 'stopped' showing pics.
Noticed that the 'parameters', basically the GUARD and MODE are generally not compatible.
Example in MODE we need 7M, the choice you have on this box is 2 and 8M or AUTO only. Even when set to Auto, you get no Quality, even though Signal is at say 73% on the known channel for example!
GUARD (FEC) is available as 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4 AUTO.
And, found one or two frequencies did not correspond wit the AUS bandplan, easily fixed as you can overtype that which you see.
Firmware date goes back to 15 March 04.
Will load later Firmware (2005) from HumaxZone.net to try again.
Been given one of these junk items to 'see if I can get it going - again'. It had been loaded with Newcastle digital services some time back, but one day 'stopped' showing pics.
Noticed that the 'parameters', basically the GUARD and MODE are generally not compatible.
Example in MODE we need 7M, the choice you have on this box is 2 and 8M or AUTO only. Even when set to Auto, you get no Quality, even though Signal is at say 73% on the known channel for example!
GUARD (FEC) is available as 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4 AUTO.
And, found one or two frequencies did not correspond wit the AUS bandplan, easily fixed as you can overtype that which you see.
Firmware date goes back to 15 March 04.
Will load later Firmware (2005) from HumaxZone.net to try again.
QUOTE (J.G @ Dec 17 2007, 02:45 PM)
Hi all,
I have a Humax F2-1010T that has decided not to work. When I turn it on it does the following;
The standby LED on the box goes off then comes on and is red. The TV displays a green screen, then a grey screen and a dialog box opens with the following words;
Humax Loader C3.57
Load Application
A yellow bar moves across in the dialog box from left to right and above it on the right hand end a number steps up from 0% to 100%. When it reaches 100% the standby LED goes green and the TV screen goes grey. The whole process keeps repeating and takes about 8 seconds.
Nothing I do will stop it. I have unplugged it from the power for a couple of days but it has not cleared the fault.
The Humax technician says it is probably a hardware fault. Is there someone with good technical knowledge who can give me some ideas?
Thanks.
same here
Cheers
J.G
I have a Humax F2-1010T that has decided not to work. When I turn it on it does the following;
The standby LED on the box goes off then comes on and is red. The TV displays a green screen, then a grey screen and a dialog box opens with the following words;
Humax Loader C3.57
Load Application
A yellow bar moves across in the dialog box from left to right and above it on the right hand end a number steps up from 0% to 100%. When it reaches 100% the standby LED goes green and the TV screen goes grey. The whole process keeps repeating and takes about 8 seconds.
Nothing I do will stop it. I have unplugged it from the power for a couple of days but it has not cleared the fault.
The Humax technician says it is probably a hardware fault. Is there someone with good technical knowledge who can give me some ideas?
Thanks.
same here
Cheers
J.G
I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!!ANYONE HAVE A FIX ???
CHEERS,
JIMMY
QUOTE (The Caveman @ Nov 7 2009, 09:05 AM)
I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!!ANYONE HAVE A FIX ???
CHEERS,
JIMMY
Chuck it in the bin . One of the main processing chips had died.
But keep the mains adaptor it may come in handy for something else.
QUOTE (dryfry @ Nov 8 2009, 01:31 PM)
Chuck it in the bin . One of the main processing chips had died.
But keep the mains adaptor it may come in handy for something else.
But keep the mains adaptor it may come in handy for something else.
G'Day DryFly
,Is there any chance of even a replacement for the chip??.
The problem seems to be wide spread
. & I'm Sure that the Humax people willnot admit to it.
.Cheers & thanks for the reply.
(It was one hell of a waste for (what I thought) was a very nice box)
Caveman
QUOTE (The Caveman @ Nov 26 2009, 01:48 PM)
G'Day DryFly ,
Is there any chance of even a replacement for the chip??.
The problem seems to be wide spread . & I'm Sure that the Humax people will
not admit to it. .
Cheers & thanks for the reply.
(It was one hell of a waste for (what I thought) was a very nice box)
Caveman
,Is there any chance of even a replacement for the chip??.
The problem seems to be wide spread
. & I'm Sure that the Humax people willnot admit to it.
.Cheers & thanks for the reply.
(It was one hell of a waste for (what I thought) was a very nice box)
Caveman
Yeah it was darn good at recieving signals and the fact it worked on 12volts DC made for a good little box.
But they are old SD only boxes. Time to say farewell to our old friend .
QUOTE (dryfry @ Nov 26 2009, 06:57 PM)
Yeah it was darn good at recieving signals and the fact it worked on 12volts DC made for a good little box.
But they are old SD only boxes. Time to say farewell to our old friend .
But they are old SD only boxes. Time to say farewell to our old friend .
G'Day DryFly
,Thanks anyway & cheers,
Jimmy
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