STS 5000 for sale

bcslaam · Post by **bcslaam** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:11 am

I am selling sts 5000 for US$100

bcslaam · Post by **bcslaam** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:27 pm

OK
This has now hit rock bottom, I will sell it for US$50

happy xmas, new year

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:25 pm

You better keep it at that price, you never know, maybe you'll find use for it laterz?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:55 pm

I'll take it - is the device unregistered ?
otherwise you're into a lot of trouble for 50 bucks...

cheers, Tom

bcslaam · Post by **bcslaam** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:05 pm

I forgot to point out it is registered. So buyer will have to pay the transfer fee's.

mmm maybe I should just keep it for that price.
Does anyone want to trade. I'd swap for a minimax or...? what have ya got?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:08 pm

well, in this case it's probably better if I withdraw, as you will not like what the story is about

Originally the process of re-registering a device wasn't even considered possible at all - they kind of hacked their own software to make it possible.
So to sell the STS, they will send you a program to erase ALL (!) your remaining keys.
This program generates a 'success' key that it really(!) had been run, which you send back to CWA.
From that point on your card doesn't exist anymore for any of the devices you had registered with it. It works only as a DSP extender.
After receiving the key that prooves you erased your original keys, CWA will generate new keys and send them to you. Your board serial number will also have changed during the process.
After importing the new keys your system will be fully usable again - with all licenses you originally had - except the one you sold.

This is definetely no joke - and for a professional user probably not even worth a 100 bucks (let alone 50...)
If I wanted to trade something, I had to go through exactly the same procedure... no, thanks

in case you think 'WTF are they doing... ?' - well that's the reason why the protection (still) holds. If someone wants to fiddle with it, he has to fiddle with an eeprom - if he fails, the card is useless. There may even be a program that self-erases the content if someone tampers around with it - one simply doesn't know...
Without the procedure that makes sure the hardware IS altered, noone could stop you from using your existing system

I'm really interested in that sampler, but I'm afraid I shrieked you away now ...

cheers, Tom

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:40 am

i've done the transfer process 3 times and without any problems.
Just don't do it on the week end because ralph does not work