How to convert Kiss DP-500 to DP-508 with 80GB HD - Divx/DVD

[gsashok]

1. Unplug Power and Open the top cover of the player
2. Remove power cable from DVD Drive
3. Remove IDE Cable from DVD Drive
4. Remove IDE Cable from Board
5. Plug the Y power adapter cable to the power adapter cable (what you removed from DVD Drive)
6. Plug one end of Y cable to DVD Drive
7. Place the brand new Western Digital 80GB Special Edition drive on top of DVD Drive
8. Set the jumper setting of Hard Drive as Slave
9. Plug the other end of Y cable to Hard Drive
10. Plug the Middle potion of the IDE cable (Provided by Western Digital) on board
11. Plug the short end of IDE cable to Hard Drive
12. Plug the long end of IDE cable to DVD Drive
13. Plug the power card
14. Press the eject button
15. Put the Firmware disk of 2.7.4 of 508
16. Close the Tray
17. You will see on screen display to power cycle
18 Press Power Cycle button
19. Firmware will be updated (first it will display Erasing .. then count starts 1,2,3,....100.
20. Player will eject the tray
21. Remove firmware cd from tray
22 Press Power Cycle button
23. This time you will see "First time hard drive preperation mesg". Do not touch anything on remote or player until the mesg disappears.
24. All you set with the 74632 MB Free of space

All of the above is true if you have Rev2 and Rev B mark on sigma chip and Brand new western digital 80GB

Ashok

[RabidDog]

sounds like it was expecting a hard drive to be added; at some time.

[polyalloy]

Would you put some pictures of what you did? I think it will be much easier to follow what you said.

[ps2wiz]

It only works with a western digital 80 GB?