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Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 29 Dec 2010, 11:57
by nukleraj
Hi,

I ended up with an HD2 like daffydk.
So there is no other way to make it work than the serial cable? (or return to shop for service)?
The serial connector in HD2 is the one near the internal HDD? (4 pins)

Thx in advance,

Nukleraj

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 29 Dec 2010, 12:05
by Olegin
There are no another ways for today... :(
Yes, near the internal HDD connectors, pic you can see here viewtopic.php?p=3868#p3868

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 01 Jan 2011, 01:43
by nukleraj
Hi

Well, I am still facing problems.
Had a DKU-5 cable. Cut it into half.
1st surprise, it had 5 wires, not 4.
Took the end with the Pop-Port, and identified wires. Found, Tx, Rx, GND, V Out and ACI(?)
Connected the first 3 repectively to a 4 pin CD cable assumed that V Out is the 3.3V and left the last one alone
(Actually made an RJ45 connection between the 2 halves, to allow re-connect the original pop-port later)

Can see nothing on HyperTerminal while box is booting.

Shall I swap Tx and Rx wires?
Shall I do something with the ACI wire?
Or maybe simply did some wirirng wrong?
Also have a DKU-2 cable but, as I can figure out it is direct USB.

Can anyone help?

And happy new year to you all!

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 01 Jan 2011, 10:55
by Olegin
nukleraj wrote:Shall I swap Tx and Rx wires?

Yes.
nukleraj wrote:Shall I do something with the ACI wire?

You need 3 wires only: GND, Rx, Tx.

Connect your cable, start HyperTerminal:
Touch the wires with finger if on the screen you see "garbage" this wire is Rx.
Connect Rx with Tx and press any keys on the keyboard if by pressing in the screen there are symbols you have correctly defined wires.

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 04 Jan 2011, 01:04
by nukleraj
Thx Olegin, finally succeeded!

Nukleraj

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 02 Feb 2011, 01:00
by kira0039
can I fix it via PCLINK from asus ti USB in notebook?

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 03 Feb 2011, 16:46
by zmatus
I need help. My HD2 is dead. I try to load firmware with serial cable, but no luck. always same message, see picture. any ideas? :(

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 03 Feb 2011, 22:52
by FarVoice
to zmatus:
Do you have TTL serial cable? RS-232 does not fit - another signal levels. Find TTL cable ( like http://www.patriotmem.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3479 ) and try again.

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2011, 17:27
by zmatus
thanks, my HD2 live again now. ;)

Re: Asus o!play HD2 Maby bricked HEEEELP

PostPosted: 06 Jul 2014, 16:35
by pgp
Hello and thank you all

Huge problem here, asus HD2 is stuck on "preparing for update It takes a few seconds".

I was on boot 26 and did this command to erase and now its brick.

About the cable, can i use direct serial from player to serial on my computer (i have a desktop with serial port)?

When i get cable, i cut in half and solder the serial part to my player and connect the USB to computer?

Can i do it with this ?
http://gloria.olx.pt/conversor-usb-para ... -456223985

Need help please

Thanks!