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Ram Sup
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: Malaysia
Registered: Mar 2008

posted 04-21-2011 03:52 PM

Hi..Everyone,

Why DTS won't sell XD10 motherboards to anyone but instead asking us to sent the xd10 units to them for replacement of motherboards.
Just curious, cant we replace the motherboards ourselfs?

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Monte L Fullmer
Film God

Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted 04-21-2011 05:14 PM

Prob due to a copyright and total legal ownership of the boards.

Not your standard AT/ATX momboard as with the older players which were i486 based units. Plus being very proprietory as with the power supplies that are specially designed and used by DTS (now DATASAT)at the time.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-21-2011 06:18 PM

Which motherboard do you have in your unit? A-Open or Asus? Considering what they want to repair-upgrade a unit that will soon be nothing but a door stop I would hesitate to spend the money. I don't know anyone here that is willing to spend 1200 USD on a unit that is going to give them service for perhaps another year or two of service. There are also used units available for less than it costs for MB replacement. If you have an older A-Open MB carefully look at the tops of all the electrolytic caps... 2200 mfd @ 6.3 volts. If any of them are bulging upward like they are going to seperate that is all that is wrong with the MB and any competant electronics tech can remove ALL the old 2200 mdf caps and install ALL new ones. Ditto for the small blue cap in the center of the board next to the heat sink. If you have a newer Asus board there are still places that will refurbish those types of motherboards although you may have to send it to a place in Europe to get that done. There are several dozen places here in the States that repair bad motherboards. Typical cost is $75 USD.

Mark

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Ram Sup
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: Malaysia
Registered: Mar 2008

posted 04-23-2011 01:23 AM

Thanks Mark,
I have a few unit that hangs and will not boot. all i get is the word "initializing". I will check what motherboard i have and let u know.

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Greg Routenburg
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 178
From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Registered: May 2003

posted 05-05-2011 02:27 PM

My guess would be that it has something to do with the licences for the special features of the player. All of the licences for the various content decoding options are referenced to the MAC address on the player which would change with the motherboard. Any additional licences that were purchased for the player would have to be updated. It's probably part of their key management system.

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