Cable Forum - View Single Post - who has bricked their box doing a forced update?

handyman · 08-03-2007, 00:02

You cannot brick a box by force updating it if done correctly, if you interrupted a software flash it could wipe the memory.

A forced or hard restart is part of the normal fault diagnosis methods.

This poll is not required. 3 years on the phones at ntl and never came across it ever or heard of it from fault techs, network techs or the guys that develop the code for the box's.

I've also force rebooted more box's that any one here whilst forcing reboots through on test stb's (except ntl,TW, Virgin staff)

08-03-2007, 00:02	#5
handyman Permanently Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nr Carnforth Age: 50 Services: M6 Keele Posts: 5,462	Re: who has bricked their box doing a forced update? You cannot brick a box by force updating it if done correctly, if you interrupted a software flash it could wipe the memory. A forced or hard restart is part of the normal fault diagnosis methods. This poll is not required. 3 years on the phones at ntl and never came across it ever or heard of it from fault techs, network techs or the guys that develop the code for the box's. I've also force rebooted more box's that any one here whilst forcing reboots through on test stb's (except ntl,TW, Virgin staff)