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

handyman · 09-03-2007, 02:32

I posted in another thread but cannot be bothered looking it up.
A stb can be rebooted 2 ways. 1 is a simple soft reboot by switching it off at the power and back on. 2 is a hard reboot and this is achieved by holding down a button combination on the stb which send it into a diagnostic start-up. Part of this start-up checks the software revision and if there is a newer one available it downloads it. As Zingle correctly stated there is no way you could reboot a stb enough to cause a fault as they are designed for 1000's of updates.

But lets not get the facts mixed up in this. I've had 3 years working with this hardware, I know what it can do, I know the methods for distributing the software updates and one of the guys that develops the boxs and the guy that handle the updates are member of this forum. Though I suspect they are bored of this sort of chat and are not jumping in.

FACT: A forced reboot will bring down a software update only if it is live for your box.

FACT: The software updates are staggered because of the impact to the call Q's from small changes and also to minimise faults caused by updates. It also helps keep bandwidth under control.

09-03-2007, 02:32	#17
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? I posted in another thread but cannot be bothered looking it up. A stb can be rebooted 2 ways. 1 is a simple soft reboot by switching it off at the power and back on. 2 is a hard reboot and this is achieved by holding down a button combination on the stb which send it into a diagnostic start-up. Part of this start-up checks the software revision and if there is a newer one available it downloads it. As Zingle correctly stated there is no way you could reboot a stb enough to cause a fault as they are designed for 1000's of updates. But lets not get the facts mixed up in this. I've had 3 years working with this hardware, I know what it can do, I know the methods for distributing the software updates and one of the guys that develops the boxs and the guy that handle the updates are member of this forum. Though I suspect they are bored of this sort of chat and are not jumping in. FACT: A forced reboot will bring down a software update only if it is live for your box. FACT: The software updates are staggered because of the impact to the call Q's from small changes and also to minimise faults caused by updates. It also helps keep bandwidth under control.