Twinhan Starbox II - Can't Get It To Work

[sweatie2]

I recently got my hands on a Twinhan Starbox II. I cannot get it to receive any signal from my existing dish which is pointed at Echostar 7. I know that the dish is properly aligned because it is also hooked up to my P4 which has a Twinhan 102g PCI card working with My Theatre. I am trying to set up the Starbox II usb to work with my new Duo Core, 1gb RAM laptop; I have installed the drivers from the Starbox install CD, and have installed the newest trial version download of My Theatre, loaded the vplug 1.38 plugins from my desktop P4. I don't think that My Theatre is the problem with the laptop setup because I am not getting any signal strength or quality when I look at these on the installed Twinhan software.

Can anyone who has theirs working offer some advice on what I can do to get the Starbox working?

[wejones]

Originally Posted by sweatie2

I recently got my hands on a Twinhan Starbox II. I cannot get it to receive any signal from my existing dish which is pointed at Echostar 7. I know that the dish is properly aligned because it is also hooked up to my P4 which has a Twinhan 102g PCI card working with My Theatre. I am trying to set up the Starbox II usb to work with my new Duo Core, 1gb RAM laptop; I have installed the drivers from the Starbox install CD, and have installed the newest trial version download of My Theatre, loaded the vplug 1.38 plugins from my desktop P4. I don't think that My Theatre is the problem with the laptop setup because I am not getting any signal strength or quality when I look at these on the installed Twinhan software.

Can anyone who has theirs working offer some advice on what I can do to get the Starbox working?

Correct me if I am wrong, but from googling it, it seems that vplug 1.38 is for pirating dishnet. I don't think you are going to get any responses here assuming that that is the case.

[sweatie2]

Thanks for your help.

[wejones]

Originally Posted by sweatie2

Thanks for your help.

Sorry. Just pointing out the obvious, ie that you would have had a better chance at discussion if you hadn't mentioned the pirating software.
However it probably wouldn't have mattered, because I don't think there are many people, here at least, who have had enough success with the Starbox to help anyone else. I have one of the original version Starboxes, not the "II", and it isn't a very good receiver. I got mine for XMAS a year ago, used it for a couple weeks on strong signals, then disconnected it, and haven't used it since, although I plan to try it again. I've yet to see anyone else here, who has used it even this much, so I don't think there is anyone here to help with a Starbox anyway.

[azigma]

Starbox 7021A very difficult on occasion to get the right software driver combo that will function.
7021 works right out of the box, or, if not, replace with a different wdm driver.