Samsung POPCON

[spudnuts]

I have this fridge that has a TV in it (Made by Samsung), got it real cheap because the guys at Lowes didn't know how to setup the TV and thought it was broke (Normally $3,500 but got it for $850). I did get everything working. It runs Windows CE but it is setup to automatically start this "POPCON" (I think it means popular convergence) software. It has menu, food management, message/memo features, and the TV software. The TV runs on 802.11b wireless (That tells me that this thing has a wireless network card in it). I just want to have it boot to a desktop so I can install and run other things on it and if I need the POPCON, then I can run it from an icon on the desktop.

Is there anyone who can tell me how to stop this from booting to this POPCON and boot to a desktop.

I have been able to connect it to my desktop and look in the folders, there is a windows folder with an explorer.exe file. There are two partitions, one is TFAT (This has windows ce on it and it looks like its the root (55megs). The other partition is a FAT32 but doesn't show any size, this has all the POPCON software on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Network Engineer, CCNP,CST

 

[spudnuts]

No ideas on this one? I know there has to be someone out there that can tell me how to interrupt the boot process and bring this thing up to a desktop.

Network Engineer, CCNP,CST

 

[DSummZZZ]

From what I know of CE, chances are, you'll have to contact either the OEM or the software vendor and see if they'll even let you get in the back door. Lotsa luck there.

Chances are, you'll have to somehow connect another PC to it in order to edit some config files and change passwords and startup statements to not execute the GUI.
It isn't as easy as holding down a key combination at boot time.


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