ZaphodJoe
01-18-07, 06:00 PM
Arg. Help!
I am getting reallllllllllly sick of DVR's! None of mine work right :(
First some background: I have 1 S3, 2 HR10-250's, and 2 HR20-700's. First I had the HR10-250 and DirecTV is my main TV service. Problem was I could only get 1 HD channel and I am to far away for OTA. I tried for over a year to get Waivers and had no luck so finally I got a S3 with Comcast with just basic for the 4 major networks in HD.
My S3 has at least 1 or 2 partial recordings a week and my ABC feed breaks up contstantly.
My HR10-250's started rebooting and locking up constantly about a month ago so I decided to get the HR20 upgrade.
They installed 2 HR20's on the 12th. On one of them I installed an external HD using Thecus N2050UD and 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD 400GB HD's.
It was all fine until last night. The one with the 800GB external HD started flashing the big blue light bright then dim like when you pause but this was non stop even when watching a movie. Then when we got done watching the movie the system wouldnt power off. So I reset it then it seemed fine. It would then power on and off and movies played fine.
Tonight I went to turn it on and it wouldn't power on. So I had to reset it again, this time I unplugged it for a few seconds then plugged it back in. Then after booting the video freezes after a few minutes but the volume coontinues on for a while then if you try to stop it you eventually get a message that says DVR service is not purchased and to call a number.
No other buttons on the remote would work so I had to reboot. Same thing happened again. So I tried doing this a few times with no luck. I was beginning to think maybe the external hard drive was broken so I unplugged it and disconnected that. Then I powered up again but the same thing. This time there was no programs in the list but watching live TV it eventually freezes within a few minutes.
I tried restarting several times and trying different channels. Sometimes it would lock up durring the boot process at step one or right after step 2 and then I would reset it again and it would finally get to live TV but still lock up after a few minutes.
I came in my bedroom to check the forums for simmilar problems then decided hmm let me check the second HR20 I have in here and see if that works. I turned it on and all the channels where black and none of the programs would play. I restarted this one and now it seems to work fine.
I checked both systems and they both have the software that was installed on the 12th 0x10b. I finally just unplugged the one in the living room since it won't run at all with or without the external HD.
Any suggestions? It is raining here today and I have a new dish and 2 new switches but all my other receivers are working fine so I don't think it's that. Is there anything I can do or does it sound shot?
I am getting reallllllllllly sick of DVR's! None of mine work right :(
First some background: I have 1 S3, 2 HR10-250's, and 2 HR20-700's. First I had the HR10-250 and DirecTV is my main TV service. Problem was I could only get 1 HD channel and I am to far away for OTA. I tried for over a year to get Waivers and had no luck so finally I got a S3 with Comcast with just basic for the 4 major networks in HD.
My S3 has at least 1 or 2 partial recordings a week and my ABC feed breaks up contstantly.
My HR10-250's started rebooting and locking up constantly about a month ago so I decided to get the HR20 upgrade.
They installed 2 HR20's on the 12th. On one of them I installed an external HD using Thecus N2050UD and 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD 400GB HD's.
It was all fine until last night. The one with the 800GB external HD started flashing the big blue light bright then dim like when you pause but this was non stop even when watching a movie. Then when we got done watching the movie the system wouldnt power off. So I reset it then it seemed fine. It would then power on and off and movies played fine.
Tonight I went to turn it on and it wouldn't power on. So I had to reset it again, this time I unplugged it for a few seconds then plugged it back in. Then after booting the video freezes after a few minutes but the volume coontinues on for a while then if you try to stop it you eventually get a message that says DVR service is not purchased and to call a number.
No other buttons on the remote would work so I had to reboot. Same thing happened again. So I tried doing this a few times with no luck. I was beginning to think maybe the external hard drive was broken so I unplugged it and disconnected that. Then I powered up again but the same thing. This time there was no programs in the list but watching live TV it eventually freezes within a few minutes.
I tried restarting several times and trying different channels. Sometimes it would lock up durring the boot process at step one or right after step 2 and then I would reset it again and it would finally get to live TV but still lock up after a few minutes.
I came in my bedroom to check the forums for simmilar problems then decided hmm let me check the second HR20 I have in here and see if that works. I turned it on and all the channels where black and none of the programs would play. I restarted this one and now it seems to work fine.
I checked both systems and they both have the software that was installed on the 12th 0x10b. I finally just unplugged the one in the living room since it won't run at all with or without the external HD.
Any suggestions? It is raining here today and I have a new dish and 2 new switches but all my other receivers are working fine so I don't think it's that. Is there anything I can do or does it sound shot?