@z80 thanks mate most informative
@digitaldvd any chance of internal pics of your heatsink and fan, does it take up room that the HDD would fit in? cheers
Anyone approached the clone manufacturer and tell them the issues with the
card reader hinge pin and serial port .
If they fix the serial port issues ( they going to sell alot more )
Who know's they may be keen to fix the issues ( as the customers always right )
They probably not aware of the issues and have gone through the efforts to produce a clone ( surely they'll be keen to get it right )
Z - you forgot one thing the original has the clones does not and that is the DVB-C-T backplate ... Did not see it pictured
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I'd say that there's precious little chance of a clone manufacturer trying to overcome the limitations of the original design.Originally Posted by vinayr
Anyone approached the clone manufacturer and tell them the issues with the
card reader hinge pin and serial port .
If they fix the serial port issues ( they going to sell alot more )
Who know's they may be keen to fix the issues ( as the customers always right )
They probably not aware of the issues and have gone through the efforts to produce a clone ( surely they'll be keen to get it right )
AFAIK the serial port hasn't worked (for CS) on DM boxes since the DM600 was released, there's enough posts on various forums whinging about the lack of comms, and given the DM7025 and DM800 still have the same problem it ain't gonna be fixed by DMM.
Seems like the SmargoPlus card reader is the way to overcome the problem on those boxes with USB ports.
As for the broken hinge, very sad, zed I hope you get that fixed, it would bug the crap outta me knowing I paid so much for a DM800 only to have it broken.
Top post Zed - Thanks muchly!
I think zed is having a little 'lay in' since he posted all this around 3.30 am
Great one Z80.
Thank You
Good morning.
If you look closely you will see that the CLONE has the heatsink fitted and the GENUINE does not...isn't that sad??
see post #11 for heatsink, just under tuner...next to red SATA cable
The orange card runs just as hot in an IQ2 as it does in this box, so does whitey.
@Jonc-neither came with the back plate for cable tuner...(the DM600 does...)
A big thanks to the shy member who made these two available for dissection/pre-mortem...
photos of digitaldvd's heatsink and fan in DM800...thanks
heatsink on clone and absent on genuine.....(it's the silver serrated bit...)
Hmmm, notice how the DIP pin header by the sata cable is in different places here. Wonder if it's board version related?
just fitted the genuine with a drive...here's the pic...pretty neat fit...
Pretty neat fit allright but doesn't look like a lot of room for air circulation in there.
They sure do come with itGood morning.
@Jonc-neither came with the back plate for cable tuner...(the DM600 does...)
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mine did... and its original... its in the box zed... look in the box
2.3m motorized C-band mesh , 95 cm motorized Ku dish on aDM8000HDmake that IQ2 since 11/11/11
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Ku-band: fron NSS 6 to Intelsat 701
They sure do come with it
spoke to my mate, the genuine comes with it, the clone doesn't.
..the owner said he didn't send them to me cause I don't have cable
I am wrestling with this unit....I don't like it so far.
Anyone got a smargo working with it?
The menus are shocking.
If you get 2 minutes look at the Pli wiki as it has most things in it based on the DM800 (I did a chunk of it a few weeks ago)
remember you can not make a silk scarf out of a sours ear .. what annoys the crap out of me is the temp of the tuner unit, can cook an egg on it, here.
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cook me some egg's
It didn't help me figure out how to start recording...
Or how to set up the smargo reader.
No offence Jonc...but I hate the Pli menu interface...it's like it was design/navigated by someone who was ambi-dyslexic and about 9 years old.
The Pli team should just rip off the Gemini presentation and be done with it.
When I press the video button on the remote i expect video, not some weird key reassignment...
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