Thursday, March 5, 2009

HDX 1000 Video Guide #2: Firmware Updating Process

The 2nd part of the HDX 1000 Video Guide is to present the firmware updating process.

I've tried to change my screen resolution from 1024 x 768 to 800x600, and record the TV screen via composite output. However, the result is not what I expect to have - the words are still too small.

Just in case you cannot read it (who can...?). Here are the steps in writing.

1. At the HDX 1000, go to Setup > Maintenance and write down the firmware version. The 3rd section of the version number represent the date code yy/mm/dd. For example, 080812 means 2008/08/12.

2. Go to Digitech's website. Click on the "Download" button on the top of the web page. Then, select: "HDX 1000 Download Section" > "HDX 1000 Firmware".

3. The first firmware listed is the latest version. Compare your version wrote down in step 1. and download the firmware if you don't have the latest version.

4. Unzip the downloaded file to the root directory of a USB drive. (There should be 5 files created after the unzip process.)

5. Plug in the USB drive to the USB port right above the LAN port.

6. At your HDX 1000, click on the "Media Source". Click on the USB drive and click on the "Document" icon.

7. Run the "usbupdate.html" file. The updating process will begin. The whole process takes around 5 mins to complete.

8. Optional: if you have the internal SATA HDD installed, the NMT application will be updated as well after the firmware updating process.

1 comment:

www.paulodevera.com said...

i updated the firmware and it was a success but after that my hdx1000 started to lose the signal intermittently. this happens when playing a movie, which has played fine in the previous firmware. i even did a firmware recovery and went back to the firmware before the current release and still the same problems, never happened before. i noticed that this only happens on HDMI connection. i tried this on composite connection and there's no problem but when i put it back on HDMI, it loses the signal either when i seek within the movie or it just happens randomly within the movie. Please help, i bought my HDX1000 from AmperorDirect. thank you.