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Posted by John Howells on 04/25/06 00:05
"arvak" <qft0@lycos_no_spam.com> wrote
> I have an old samsung dvd-709 player, and it's never had the eeprom
> upgraded. It has a lot of problems with freezing and skipping, and I was
> about to chuck it, but thought maybe I should at least try to upgrade it.
> If it's fixable, the kids can use it. Samsung doesn't seem to acknowledge
> they ever made this now, so if I want it upgraded I'm on my own.
>
> Does anybody have enough details, i.e. an eeprom hex or bin file, and the
> details of the IC required?
>
> I'm comfortable pulling the old chip off the board, so long as its not a
bga
> package, and I have a decent device programmer. Looking through the
service
> manual for the player, I can see there's a serial EEPROM on it (ssop8),
and
> a much larger device, an M28C801 in a 32-pin DIP package. I'm guessing
the
> DIP part is the one I want. I'm in Canada, if that helps any with region
> details and/or pal vs. ntsc display.
FWIW, the skipping and freezing problem with some 709s when they were new
was a hardware problem, which Samsung fixed with a replacement drive. The
F/W was a quite separate issue to fix a playback problem that first
manifested itself (I believe) on The Matrix in the US and on There's
Something About Mary in the UK. Those disks just did not play at all with
the original F/W, and after a short pause would be ejected as invalid.
Personally I think trying to fix anything on a 709 that must be about six
years old is a waste of time and effort, particularly given the low cost of
a new player. And I can't say that I'm surprised to find that the two web
sites that did have files for 709 updates, which I haven't checked for a
long time, have both disappeared.
John Howells
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