Anyone have any experience hacking I-Openers....NEED HELP....Won't Boot.

[Bleeding Jawa]

I think I fried this bad boy. I replaced the bios chip (yes I know you don't have to remove it any more...but I did) with one flashed to V1. I am pretty conifident that I got all the epoxy off the pins & the bios has a good connection.

However, when I plug it in.....NOTHING!!! No picture, no noise, nothing.

Any ideas why I can't boot???

PLEASE HELP!?!?!?!

 

[vailr]

Had same symptoms. Turned out, the problem was a "lifted trace" next to the bios socket. Repaired by http://www.wizztronics.com for about $100. Quick turnaround time.

 

[Bleeding Jawa]

Can you explain what you mean by "lifted trace?"

 

[Slacker]

Traces are the paths on circuit boards, they are laid on top of the board and can be damaged if they are disturbed, like if they are pulled up from the board when someone pulls a gunky bios chip 🙂

 

[Passions]

thats what u get for tryin to hack.

 

[403Forbidden]

$100 to repair? so now thats a I-opener for $200?? hmmm

 

[DarkManX]

i was succeful with hacking 1 I-opener with epoxied bios, and didnt have a problem, now im doing a 2nd one for a relative.

 

[Bleeding Jawa]

Yep. It seems to be getting rather pricey all of a sudden.