Hi, I hope you all don't mind me bringing this back up but I have to say a big thank you to all, this has been a very helpful and informative thread and now my R88 is back up and working once more. So OK it took over 2 hours of trying various combinations before it worked but hey, it's working so can't complain. I'd say though the only difference I employed from the usual
was to keep turning it on and off via the remote after about one second shorting the eeprom, on the fourth attempt it lit up and I had no need to go into the service menu, this of course was towards the end of the two hours(got fed up trying), so it's all there and working just fine, indeed it's been switched off at the mains and plugged back in a couple of times and it's still working just fine so thank you all once again, very helpful indeed, Andy.