JamesRay

You just need NV9USB, these will all work in your machine regardless of label and dip switches mate.

 

And fab that the rest of the machine is working properly, well done! I think you did the hard work yourself, and to be honest it's the best way to learn! Get in there and go for it, which is exactly what you've done!

By the way, NV9 can be bought here, £150. https://www.ebay.co....vUAAOSwU~FbvKBe

Ah,brilliant! Cheers mate.

I think the thing with the colors and dips is that only the greens can still be updated apparently, but i suppose as long as they will take the new notes now it shouldn't matter anyway!

Hopefully this machine won't be my last, and honestly without the help of you guys here i think i'd still be poking it with a stick and waiting for a miracle. :-D

Cheers,

James

I've been told to avoid green labeled ones as well as dip switch ones.are the red labeled ones okay still or am i going to have to get one direct from innovative?

If your note acceptor has dip switches it's not updatable to new £20 note. It needs to be USB type (one with button instead of switches)

darnit. dont suppose you know where i can get one? cant see any coming up on ebay.

Okay, nope, reopened. apparently the note acceptor is obsolete and cannot be updated to the new polymer notes.

I can buy a DA3 programming thingy which will apparently according to the manual be able to update it, but otherwise ill apparently need to buy a new unit.

Any ideas?

To summaries this post, for anybody trying to check their own machines.

The symptoms were that: The alarm on the machine would sound when it was turned out ("Hey, Check me out!") and nothing would be displayed on the monitors. The machine would also not boot into BIOS (pressing F12 on a USB keyboard).

Further checks found that the status LEDs on the PC i found that the HDD light flickered while the power LED would never come on. The power and reset switches both made the machine turn on and off (something i tested by switching the connectors from the HDD light and rocker switch on the PC around to other connections on the motherboard).

This showed (in my case at least) that it was a faulty motherboard. I sent the machine off to get it repaired and when i got it back it worked fine.

The next issue was that the touchscreen wouldn't react with the computer. this was fixed by switching the USB around between different ports (turn off the machine. switch the USB to another port. boot it back up and test. repeat until the monitor worked).

Finally the note validator would not react to notes. after dismantling it and rebuilding it, i checked over some cables and reseated them, and found out that the validator was set to special mode when it should have been on SSP mode (Smiley Secure Protocol). 

Once again, a big thanks to all you guys on this site for your advice! Hopefully this machine will have many years left on it!