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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
just curious , what were you doing poking around inside the box  |
Apart from the general interests of looking inside things to see how they work, I had opened the 4010 I used to have coz it was starting to smell funny. Like something overheating - I'm sure you all know the smell I mean - I used to get it loads from my old Di-'overheatmaster'-4001 I had when I lived in a bromley area. So, I had opened it up to hoover (well, dyson) the dust away as this is usually what makes a smell in warm electronics!
And I opened up my friends partly coz I was bored and partly coz they weren't looking and partly coz I was curious to see how it compared to mine and partly coz I found a box of screwdriver bits in their flat with those funny shaped ones needed to open the box.
I have to say that they were somewhat dissappiontinly simply and plain looking inside with only one main device - broadcom bcm3250kbp I think. I looked it up on the internet and surprisingly enough it is a 'set top box single chip' that does docsis and davic. I must have been so bored that day.