Post 2 made on Saturday February 26, 2000 at 21:07
Mr. Wizard
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Nevermind, I found it. For those of you who want to know. You can access the DSS's Diagnostic Program by connecting a straight through cable from the Low Speed Data port to a PC. Press enter and you will see a DiagPrompt> prompt. Type ? for a list of commands. Different models have different commands, the following is a list of commands from the a1-a4 and b1-b4 series, the A50 and B50 are slightly different. Here are all the commands you can use:
1 rom - Test ROM checksum 2 tram - Read/Write Test Transport IC SRAM 3 vram - Read/Write Test MPEG video DRAM 4 eprm - Read/Write Test EEPROM 5 ntsc - Show color bars 6 mpeg - Test MPEG video chip 7 tic - Test Transport IC 8 cam - Read access card 9 aud - Test audio IC 10 mdm - Test modem 11 led - Test front panel LEDs 12 butn - Test front panel buttons 13 rmt - Test remote control 14 exit - Exit diagnostics 15 ser - Set IRD serial number 16 ver - Set IRD model number 17 locks - Set Lock/Unlock/Skip/Unskip channels 18 fav - Set favorite stations 19 dch - Set default channel 20 eep - Initialize EEPROM 21 dump - Dump data from memory 22 probe - Go to probe 23 sniff - Enable Sniffer Output 24 pis - Simulate PI 25 camid - Display CAM ID number 26 fend - Set the Front End type 27 lsdr - Read from the low speed data port 28 lsdw - Write to the low speed data port 29 lsdb - Set the low speed data port baud rate 30 rf - Set RF/IR remote state 31 sec - Set RF security code 32 hss - Write to the high speed data port 33 ? - Display list of commands
Syntax: [r rptCnt] {cmdName | cmdNum} [options] [- {cmdName | cmdNum} [options]] rptCnt = 0 means repeat forever (default = 1) Numeric values default to decimal. Use 0x before numbers for hex values.
For help on specific commands, type command name followed by ?