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CLEANING A CARD WITH UNKNOWN PROGRAMMING

You only have two options if you don't know what script is on the card and both of them, from what I've read, may loop your card.

Option 1 - Carefully attempt to clean the card in expert mode in BasicH2.9 following these steps exactly.

First off, before you do anything, although I've yet to see anyone else say this in an FAQ or message, I *strongly* advise that you shut down all possible programs running in the background on your computer which are not absolutely necessary to keep the machine up. In other words, disable/suspend things like task schedulers, virus scanners, screen savers and POWER MANAGEMENT settings. Some might say this is overly cautious but I've been working in the Windows environment since Gates first released it and I have the utmost respect/disdain for the instabilities that have been present in *every* version since day one...

In BasicH 2.9 select "expert" mode by clicking on the "normal" button/square at the bottom of the screen.

Click on the icon that looks like an open door. This will *hopefully* open the E3 hole. If it does, proceed onward. If you get a message that the E3 hole cannot be opened, you're probably going to have to send the card out to be cleaned. However... as you are in a last-ditch effort situation, you might try cleaning the card using Viyada1.6 at this point as some claim that it does a more "aggressive" job of cleaning.

If the E3 hole opened, click on the magnifying glass icon to the immediate left of the ambulance icon. This will hopefully read your card's contents into memory.

Click on "File" and then click on "Save Eprom File" to save a copy of your original card image in case you need to restore your card to its original condition in the future. Give the file a unique name you will remember and save it in a safe location other than the folder/directory you have BasicH installed in to prevent accidentally overwriting the file later!

Look to the right of the ambulance icon and you'll see a small pointer pointing down. Click on it and a drop down menu will allow you to select the update you want to clean the card's EPROM contents in memory to. Select 29 updates.

Once the EPROM has been cleaned look at the smaller "File Differences" window on the right side of the screen. Don't worry if the window appears to be sheared off on its right side because all that means is that you are operating at a higher video resolution than the program was designed for. If you see any text inside the "File Differences" window (will look like hex addresses) then repeat the EPROM clean process exactly as you just did as many times as you need to in order to get a "File Differences" window that is completely empty. Usually, you will have to repeat the cleaning process twice to get an empty window.

Click on the lightning bolt icon to write the clean EPROM image in memory to the card.

Close the E3 hole by clicking the closed door icon at the top of the screen. <--- CRITICAL STEP!

If this worked, you can now use WinExplorer to apply whatever freeware script you prefer onto the card.

Option 2 - Try and run the uninstall routine for every script you can find. You might just get lucky and hit the right script and the person who programmed your card used the default backdoor key. You can find just about all the publicly available scripts at http://www.superunlooper.com or http://dss.homepage.com/files.html or http://www.dr7.com/ or http://interesting-devices.com/ or http://wildfyre.cjb.net/ or http://pressman.tsx.org or http://www.redrival.com/toxic/d_s_s/. Note that some scripts have a separate remove/uninstall script while others have install/remove options built into the same script. I'd consider this a last ditch effort before sending a card with an unknown script off to the cleaners.

CLONING VIA PROGRAMMER

INSTRUCTION SET #1

IF YOU'RE USING A LEGIT SUBBED H-CARD TO CLONE FROM
Note: these instructions assume your sub card does not have any hacks applied. If it does, you must remove all hacks first.

Fire up BasicH2.9 and click on the magnifying glass icon to read the legit subbed card's EPROM into memory.

Remove legit H card and place it in a SAFE PLACE out of reach to ensure that you do not accidentally do anything further to it!

Now that your legit card is safely removed from the programmer, click on "File" and then on "Save Eprom File" and save the legit H cards EPROM file as holy_grail.bin in any directory/folder you wish *except* the same directory as the one BasicH is installed in.

Exit BasicH.

Fire up Winexplorer4.4 and put your hacked H card in the programmer.

Remove whatever script you now have on the card and exit WinExplorer,

Fire up BasicH2.9 and select "expert" mode by clicking on the "normal" button/square at the bottom of the screen.

Click on the icon that looks like an open door. This will open the E3 hole.

Click on the magnifying glass icon to the immediate left of the ambulance icon. This will read your card's contents into memory.

Select "File" and then select "Save Eprom File" to save your card's original bin file in case you need to restore your card to it's original state at some future date. Give this bin file a unique name like "myvirgin.bin" and save it to a location *other* than the folder/directory where you have BasicH installed.

Look to the right of the ambulance icon and you'll see a small pointer pointing down. Click on it and a drop down menu will allow you to select the update you want to clean the card's EPROM contents in memory to. Select 29 updates.

Once the EPROM has been cleaned look at the smaller "File Differences" window on the right side of the screen. Don't worry if the window appears to be sheared off on its right side because all that means is that you are operating at a higher video resolution than the program was designed for. If you see any text inside the "File Differences" window (will look like hex addresses) then repeat the EPROM clean process exactly as you just did as many times as you need to in order to get a "File Differences" window that is completely empty. Usually, you will have to repeat the cleaning process twice to get an empty window.

Click on the lightning bolt icon to write the clean EPROM image in memory to the card.

Click on "File" and then on "Open Eprom File" and load the "holy_grail.bin" file you saved from your legit subbed H card.

Again, select the small pointer to the right of the ambulance icon, click on it and select 29 updates to clean the EPROM image in memory.

Check the "File Differences" window on the right side of the screen. If you see any text inside the "File Differences" window repeat the EPROM clean process exactly as you just did as many times as you need to in order to get a "File Differences" window that is completely empty. As before, you will usually have to repeat the cleaning process twice to get an empty window.

Click on the lightning bolt icon to write the clean EPROM image in memory to the card.

Close the E3 hole by clicking the closed door icon at the top of the screen. <--- CRITICAL STEP!

You can now use WinExplorer to apply whatever freeware script you prefer onto the card.

INSTRUCTION SET #2

IF YOU'RE USING A SUBBED BIN FILE TO CLONE FROM
Fire up Winexplorer4.4 and put your hacked H card in the programmer.

Remove whatever script you now have on the card and exit WinExplorer,

Fire up BasicH2.9 and select "expert" mode by clicking on the "normal" button/square at the bottom of the screen.

Click on the icon that looks like an open door. This will open the E3 hole.

Click on the magnifying glass icon to the immediate left of the ambulance icon. This will read your card's contents into memory.

Select "File" and then select "Save Eprom File" to save your card's original bin file in case you need to restore your card to it's original state at some future date. Give this bin file a unique name like "myvirgin.bin" and save it to a location *other* than the folder/directory where you have BasicH installed.

Look to the right of the ambulance icon and you'll see a small pointer pointing down. Click on it and a drop down menu will allow you to select the update you want to clean the card's EPROM contents in memory to. Select 29 updates.

Once the EPROM has been cleaned look at the smaller "File Differences" window on the right side of the screen. Don't worry if the window appears to be sheared off on its right side because all that means is that you are operating at a higher video resolution than the program was designed for. If you see any text inside the "File Differences" window (will look like hex addresses) then repeat the EPROM clean process exactly as you just did as many times as you need to in order to get a "File Differences" window that is completely empty. Usually, you will have to repeat the cleaning process twice to get an empty window.

Click on the lightning bolt icon to write the clean EPROM image in memory to the card.

Click on "File" and then on "Open Eprom File" and load the subbed bin file you plan to use.

Again, select the small pointer to the right of the ambulance icon, click on it and select 29 updates to clean the EPROM image in memory.

Check the "File Differences" window on the right side of the screen. If you see any text inside the "File Differences" window repeat the EPROM clean process exactly as you just did as many times as you need to in order to get a "File Differences" window that is completely empty. As before, you will usually have to repeat the cleaning process twice to get an empty window.

Click on the lightning bolt icon to write the clean EPROM image in memory to the card.
Close the E3 hole by clicking the closed door icon at the top of the screen. <--- CRITICAL STEP!

You can now use WinExplorer to apply whatever freeware script you prefer onto the card.