Hi Andy
Any help on using a USB to RS232c would be helpful. I have tried it on W7 and Vista but I can't get Winoak to recognise the Humax as no valid ports are displayed. I have emailed Humax Technical for help on this. NO REPLY.

However the good news is that like a lot of people my box was 'lazy' after the November retune but after the December retune and following Biggles advice by doing a default reset and starting over my box is back to near perfect. I would suggest the original poster try the same. You never know your luck

Posted by: elderly gent      Posted on: Dec 29th, 2009 at 12:15pm
Biggles, do you think age has anything to do with it.

I suppose it depends how old you are!!!!!!!
Sorry, elderly gent, couldn't resist that - anyway - do you want to borrow my lead - there is a way of sending me your e-mail via Ebay without anyone else seeing it.

On the subject of coms numbers, Windows xp must be re-assigning them 1 up automatically and if only I could find them in the registry, I could delete them.
Allan

       Not too old to appreciate the joke Allan, but I have been retired for more years than I like to remember!!
       I have always been curious as to how things work, but you young lads are way ahead of me technically.
       My 9200T has been behaving itself lately, perhaps that last removal of the aerial and giving it a "Biggles" has done the trick, somehow I doubt it.
      To date no reply from Humax nor a software update down the aerial. Funny how things arrive that way these days, I suspect that Father Christmas did this year, there was no soot in the grate!!!!!!
      A happy New Year to all you contributors.

I emailed Chris at humax and he sent me this when I had the same problem.

Please follow these steps to refresh the tuners and manually tune into your local transmitter (Winter Hill):
Power OFF the receiver
Disconnect the Aerial cable
Power On the receiver
Press MENU
Select Installation
Enter your password (default = 0000)
Select Default Setting
Select YES
Enter your password (Default = 0000)
When the receiver restarts, power off
Power on the Box
press ok on stop (when you see automatic search)
'no channels found' press ok
'press ok to search channels' press ok
select manual search
carefully connect the aerial cable (whilst the box is on )
Then please follow the steps below.
The following procedure will allow you to receive signal from the Winter Hill transmitter.
Please go down to Network Search and select enable.
Then go to Channel and select 62.
Then select Search. When the search has finished, press save.

With Network Search enabled this should find all the channels on all multiplexes.
However if this does not find all channels you will have to search the multiplexes individually.

To do this please switch Network Search back to Disable and search the following channels one after the other, selecting save after each search;
62, 59, 58, 61, 55, 54.

Hope thisa is helpful,, it also helps with the problem of no epg working.

adrey wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 1:24pm:


But the BIOS usually has an option something like 'Plug & Play OS' which should be set to 'YES'. Under these conditions I believe BIOS assigns only essential services for boot and then passes control to Windows. If this is the case then maybe booting the puter with the USB to COM device connected may assign the COM port number selected as Andy has described.

Biggles - all done, at last.
BUT - how do I know the beta is installed.
I've got software version - pgxtf 1.00.21
loader version - a 4.09
but it says - update date - 30 nov 2009
mind you - it initially looks damn good.
the handset is flying!!!!!!
big thanks to everyone

Hi
I cured this problem with a manual re-tune (on the advice and instruction of Biggles).  My nearest transmitter is winter hill, but it seems that there are others near enough to be picked up in an auto-tune, so my Humax 9200 gets stuffed with loads of duplicate channels in the 800s, and this is presumably what gives it indigestion.

Mudsnail