On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:17:04 +0100, "André Coutanche"
wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
'My Stuff' on the 5800 is telling me it's out of date and no longer
supported so I thought I'd get the latest version.
The installer complains it can't communicate with the Toppy. Tried it
on a laptop running Win7 and a PC running XP. And different cables.

All I've done so far is check all the voltages from the SMPS and
they're all fine.

Nothing much of relevance I can find on the Toppy forum. But then I'm
probably not looking for the right thing.

I'd respectfully suggest that you're not *asking* in the right place. Why
not pose the question on the 'Computer Connections' thread of the Forums?
You'll get more replies than here, I should think, and very probably a
helpful answer rather quickly.

Agreed.

My old Toppy worked perfectly up until the PSU died.

I replaced it with a secondhand one prior to getting the original
fettled.

This had the "new and improved" software which I wanted to downgrade,
but I couldn't transfer it.

Altair "found" the Toppy but couldn't transfer files either.

The Forum folks gave me a different way of upgrading the firmware
which worked, and suddenly the computer could see it again.

Not entirely sure what that was all about.

In message , Albert Ross
wrote

My old Toppy worked perfectly up until the PSU died.

A common fault on 3/4 year old Toppy's and usually quite cheap to fix.
Even if you don't want to DIY there a couple of Toppy.org.uk forum
members who will undertake repairs for a reasonable fee.

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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:52:00 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Albert Ross
wrote

My old Toppy worked perfectly up until the PSU died.

A common fault on 3/4 year old Toppy's and usually quite cheap to fix.
Even if you don't want to DIY there a couple of Toppy.org.uk forum
members who will undertake repairs for a reasonable fee.

Yes I bought a second Toppy while I try to remember where I stashed my
soldering iron.

I could buy a second iron but I get thoroughly ****ed off buying
things because I can't find the one I know I have, then immediately
finding the original one

sigh

Hopefully by the time they both expire someone will have produced
something that actually works better. I didn't find one yet.

In article ,
Albert Ross wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:52:00 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Albert Ross
wrote

My old Toppy worked perfectly up until the PSU died.

A common fault on 3/4 year old Toppy's and usually quite cheap to fix.
Even if you don't want to DIY there a couple of Toppy.org.uk forum
members who will undertake repairs for a reasonable fee.

Yes I bought a second Toppy while I try to remember where I stashed my
soldering iron.

I could buy a second iron but I get thoroughly ****ed off buying
things because I can't find the one I know I have, then immediately
finding the original one

sigh

Hopefully by the time they both expire someone will have produced
something that actually works better. I didn't find one yet.

I have rather more of a dilemma. The Toppy seems to produce more motion
artifacts than my other FreeView tuner both fed RGB into SCART sockets on
my non FreeView DLP rear projector set. Swapping inputs and leads makes no
difference. It's most noticeable on dark scenes. To the point where I now
only use the Toppy for recording. I have a few old progs on the HD and
they are the same so it's not down to any changes in the actual
transmissions. Perhaps I should look for a secondhand one with a faulty
power supply etc?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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