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Post by Decibel on Jan 16, 2016 6:36:55 GMT -5
I want to make an immense gratitude to Stefaan (dummyload in this forum).
He repaired three boards (a original Cinemax controller and two convergences boards) that were not only faulty but totally damaged by my attempts to repair.
There was broken components and pcb's parts.
I was convinced that they were in fact irreparable and I did not think he could do the miracle.
Instead he made a great miracle!
All boards are back in life and I finally installed in my projector.
I would advise his name in case you have any board that you failed to repair and considered dead.
Thanks again Stefaan!
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Post by Casethecorvetteman on Jan 16, 2016 6:48:39 GMT -5
I have a controller here i might send for repair at some point, thanks for that info!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 17:53:21 GMT -5
Just curious how did these motherboards die? It is remarcable that the only guys that I read that are flashing also have dead motherboards  Good to know we have a fail save. |
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Post by Casethecorvetteman on Jan 17, 2016 18:46:33 GMT -5
Im yet to see one fail from flashing if it is done by the correct method. There is no reason for it to fail due to flashing, it was designed to be flashed. Even if flashing fails, it can be reflashed anyway. It has all been made clear before. If you want to believe us flashing boards killed them, go for it. But youll still be incorrect.
My faulty one works fine for months at a time and then randomly plays up by shutting the machine off. That issue was present prior to ever flashing anything.
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Post by dummyload on Jan 19, 2016 4:43:04 GMT -5
Thanks Decibel ,but it's no miracle (just a crazy dinosaur doing his thing), I have to say if I saw the convergence boards I first doubted if I would go for it.
It took nearly sixty parts and a lot of time to get it done , I like a challence some time and I wanted to give the guy a break.
Obviously I can not repair everyones trashed boards because I still have (somewhere) a life beside this. (yes I'm married)
You're right Case the flashing with jumper in place is bullet prove and can be repeated if something goes wrong ,but this information is only recently present on this site thanks to you and Hulio.
Barco built this method in as a backup (emergency flashing) because you have to open up the projector (pull the tray) and set a jumper , and that is not "plug and play" for non technical guys,
the normal method is "plug and play" but if a fail happens you can not recover If you do not know the emergency method.
Without the jumper memory chip I6 is used and contains the main program and the data to do normal flashing method ,because of this if flashing goes wrong you are stuck.
With the jumper in place memory chip I7 is used and cotains a program to flash memory chip I6 ,so if flashing goes wrong I6 gets corrupted ,you can flash again because chip I7 is never flashed and can not be corrupted this way and that makes this method bullet proof. (so use of I7 is key here)
The method with the program plug is only useful for repair ,back up and replace of a version of program were there is no flash version of.
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