A little help needed on 1st set up

[dikkidave]

No mate it doesn't reboot, it comes on the vfd shows- E some numbers change then boot and flashes purple around the on/off button, then openvix comes across the screen in black and white and vfd says giga, then the screen goes blank, the vfd counts up from 1 - 24 and gigablue teamred comes on vfd says 25 gigablue loading is now on screen, then continues after a few seconds to count up to 99 then the picture (bbc1) comes on the screen

Thanks for all your help so far, it must be stressing you out as much as it is me by now haha

[Sicilian]

No mate it doesn't reboot, it comes on the vfd shows- E some numbers change then boot and flashes purple around the on/off button, then openvix comes across the screen in black and white and vfd says giga, then the screen goes blank, the vfd counts up from 1 - 24 and gigablue teamred comes on vfd says 25 gigablue loading is now on screen, then continues after a few seconds to count up to 99 then the picture (bbc1) comes on the screen

Thanks for all your help so far, it must be stressing you out as much as it is me by now haha

Do this, flash new bootloader, when VFD says boot, power the unit off. Now flash the image, when VFD says 'conf', press OK to flash the image. Then just leave it to do its stuff and fully re-boot into VIX, be patient for it to boot.

[dikkidave]

Still no joy mate, looking like i'm stuck with what is on it at the moment and being thankfull that i at least have a picture. lol i tried to ftp the extraurl folder to it earlier the i can put stuff on to get my card working but even that failed. Just getting nowhere very fast, thanks for trying anyway mate.. I will keep going over the same stuff until something works or i ditch it and go back to an openbox lol

[Sicilian]

Your doing something wrong, pure and simple.

[Larry-G]

Best thing to do.

Go have a cuppa, walk the dog ( or take him for a swim depending on what the weather is doing as it's pishing it down here ), kick the cat or what ever you need to do and come back later with a clear head and try again. you'd be amazed at what a fresh pair of eyes can do. plus it will stop you flinging the receiver out of the window in a fit of rage LOL.

[dikkidave]

Following all the instructions mate, the box doesn't reboot and it just continues to load, i've let it load to were it says done then turned box off iv'e let it load to where it says gaga turned off, i've let it load to were the screen goes off openvix before temred comes up... and put the gigablue folder on usb plug it back up, it loads exactly same all time, no reboot no conf on the lcd front panel. I give up lol

[dikkidave]

Is there something missing out of the openvix image file? i managed to flash it with teamred 1st atemp, tried openvix about 30 times but failed miserably everytime, now tried openmips and it has flashed 1st time..

i have noticed that both teamred and openmips have a burn.bat file in the image files, openvix does not, could this be my problem?

regards

[Sicilian]

I think you are flashing the wrong bootloader for the ViX image, nothing wrong with the ViX image, like I said you are doing something wrong. Use the bootloader in Post 3 here http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...SE-Bootloaders

[alankezza]

I have the same problem, been trying all day.
new Bootloader on one formated usb stick.
inserted, i get boot then USB, then Load then E000-E061 then P000 - P061, then Load.
i have tried turning off at this point and also the next point which is GIGA.

I have on a second formated USB stick, the image.
i have tried booting up with the folder SE which contains the 3 bin files and the other 2 files in the root directory of the USB stick.
and i have tried with the 3 bin files and the 2 other files in the root directory of thr USB stick.

whichever way i do it i never see on the panel "conf" once.
all i get is "boot" then "usb" and then "GIGA" after a long delay i get hdf which is my current image and then the usual number upto 91 the -E2-

i don't know what else to try.

could you at least tell me exactly which files of the new image should be in the root of the USB stick, i was thinking it may just need the rootfs.bin file.
i have no idea.
it says copy the file that extracts which is why i copy the file SE.
Help, please as i have been waiting for the VIX image for ages.
Alan

[alankezza]

what a dumbass!! after writing all that, i just tried it with the Gigablue file in the root directory and bingo conf appeared. now loading.
well i hope my mistake helps other who may be stuggling to install the image.
as you say sometimes a simple tea break/ step back works a treat.
Regards
Alan

[Sicilian]

what a dumbass!! after writing all that, i just tried it with the Gigablue file in the root directory and bingo conf appeared. now loading.
well i hope my mistake helps other who may be stuggling to install the image.
as you say sometimes a simple tea break/ step back works a treat.
Regards
Alan

Well if you read post 3 FULLY where the bootloader is you wouldn't have had an issue http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...SE-Bootloaders

[Stanman]

You know that old adage measure twice cut once, read twice, flash once

[dikkidave]

Just for future ref. should i of left the 1st set of files (burn.bat and cfe.bin) on the usb stick and just copy the gigablue folder onto the usb stick? As i kept deleting those files and just putting the gigablue folder alone on there..

I now have it up and running so i'm enjoying a few days rest lol I have openmips on it now but would like to go back to openvix when i get chance to play about with it again.

Also want to thank you for all the help you gave me.

[Larry-G]

Also want to thank you for all the help you gave me.

Thats what we are here for, and we will always help as and when we can. at the moment though this being a relatively new receiver means that most of us dont have one and cant directly help as much as we would like to. that will change though as more and more users come along who have this box.

[alankezza]

Just for future ref. should i of left the 1st set of files (burn.bat and cfe.bin) on the usb stick and just copy the gigablue folder onto the usb stick? As i kept deleting those files and just putting the gigablue folder alone on there..

I now have it up and running so i'm enjoying a few days rest lol I have openmips on it now but would like to go back to openvix when i get chance to play about with it again.

Also want to thank you for all the help you gave me.

you can do it with one USB stick, but i have found that you must format with FAT32 before adding the Gigablue file, deleting the Boot files, sometimes leaves some data with will stop it loading.
Thats why i use two clean USB sticks when updating just to save time.
Mine is now all up and running.
Thankyou the VIX team, its like having a new box all over again.
Alan