I-Appliance BBS
The Official Source for Internet Appliance Upgrades and Mods
Amazon Honor System Click Here to Pay Learn More
BBS Main List | Sign In | Sign Up | Search | Help | Linux-Hacker.netReply to Thread | Printer |

Home / Other I-Appliances / MSN Companion
Looking for original MSN image v2.0

New MessageLooking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) radarman
Profile
In a moment of stupidity, I overwrote the OS image on the microdrive that stored all my flash images. Does anyone know where I could get a virgin copy of the original MSN load?

Thanks :)
radarman

01-29-2003 17:24:16

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) KingKaj
Profile
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kajw72/
01-30-2003 10:29:24

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 6 times) DamianWarS
Profile
you can download the orginal images right off of the MSN website. All the information that you need is in the failsafe
In the Post Data and URL portion of the failsafe it will read something along the lines of this:

Post Data: [CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-1-2001;409&SSN=1]
URL: [http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage]

to get this image without the failsafe all you do is concatinate the Post Data string on to the end of the URL string using "&" and you should get something like this

http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage&CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-1-2001;409&SSN=1

type that in any web browser and it will download a clean image. There are 2 different images for each interent appliance (IA-1 and IA-2) Which image it will download is specified in the "Compaq-1-2001" area. The 1 represents the model and it can either be 1, for IA-1, or 2, for IA-2. 2001 is the version of software and it can either be 1 or 2001 but I don't know the difference. I know there is a version 1 and version 2 for the software and I imagine that this is what it represents but I can't confirm that. So, as far as I know, these are the images avaliable for download on the MSN website

IA-1
http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage&CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-1-1;409&SSN=1
http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage&CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-1-2001;409&SSN=1

IA-2
http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage&CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-2-1;409&SSN=1
http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage&CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-1-2001;409&SSN=1

These files are the orginal images designed for the machines and they have no extensions I assume they are dll files. For more information on the failsafe look up Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 274256 or go to:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274256

04-03-2003 19:22:07

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) DamianWarS
Profile
just a correction on one of listed links above.

The second link for the IA-2 is incorrect and should be:

http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage?CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-2-2001;409&SSN=1

The once listed is the same for the IA-1 and I just forgot to change it after I did a copy and paste :) You can easily see where I screwed up its not really a big deal but just a heads up.

04-03-2003 19:38:55

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) geo_fr
Profile
http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?Downloadimage?CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;Compaq-2-2001;409&SSN=1

now you can save directly this link to file


--== Geo ==--
04-04-2003 03:24:47

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
Profile | Email
Thats very intresting cause the EZNET I found a link for getting an image from microsoft as well
https://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll?DownloadImage?CurrentVersion=0&Component=Mariner;eMachines-1-1;409&SSN=1

But maybe you guys could shed a little more light on me as to HOW you load this image or rather what kind of an image this is??? And ferther more how to write it to the device??


http://members.panax.com/bachh/ My EZnet 200 tower, hacking page.
04-05-2003 18:27:20

New MessageRE:Looking for original MSN image v2.0 (modified 0 times) DamianWarS
Profile
You have to load these images in the failsafe. You can look up how to run a failsafe at microsoft knowledge base article 274256. Infact in the failsafe, at the URL portion, you can put any download you want and it will download it, whether it will work or not is a differnt story. The postdata portion is not needed its just the parametres of the URL you can slap the whole thing in the URL and nothing in the postdata and it will work fine. As far as what type of file it is, well im not sure but i have a pretty good idea. When you download it it will safe a file called clientman with no file type on your computer. The link without the parametres is http://webcdownload.msn.com/clientman/clientman.dll so that seems to suggest that the file is a dynamic link library file. What to do with that file is a differnt story. I have heard of the machines getting a vb run time error when they load which suggests that they are programmed in visual basic which makes sense why they are so crappy and slow and why msn stoped updating these things in 2001. The dll file could just be a addon to make it compatible for whatever machine you are using.
04-09-2003 18:23:43

Reply to Thread | Printer |
All times are PSTPowered by UltraBoard v1.62



Copyright © 2000, Netmake Inc. All Rights Reserved.
See Terms and Conditions for more information.




i-opener opener laptop notebook computer help drivers dll free windows dos repair fix linux mac macintosh 2000 95 98 nt pc configure hardware software sound video netscape explorer network networking lan wan software cmos fat bios printer card mouse modem ide scsi cd rom controllers scanner tape hard drive cgi scripts source code mp3