[Xzisted]

Hey all,

I have a feeling that I need to completely reformat my internal HD to clear the issue that I am seeing up. I'll explain below what I did and how it affected my receiver.

Added a 'Season Pass' to two news shows via the web with a Always Record flag.
Both shows unfortunately air about 3 times per day which pushed almost all the other 'Season Passes' out of the Prioritizer.
After this happened I could not delete any of the Season Passes without reorganizing them in the Prioritizer first. After about an hour of cleaning the entire prioritizer out of all my scheduled recordings it was clear. At this point I went back and started adding shows. At first they showed up with Priority Numbers of -49 and up to -38 before I noticed. When I exited out of prioritizer and went back into it they were numbered properly....but all listed in duplicates with no episodes scheduled to record.

I would like to just reformat the internal drive but have no idea how to do that. I know that should cause a complete refresh of the system from the ground up. A red button reset has NOT worked. Tried twice.

Any ideas or hints?

Thanks,

X

 

[Stuart Sweet]

The easiest way would be to go into the System Setup and choose "Reset Everything". That ought to do it.

 

[f300v10]

This sounds very similar to an issue I had last night with my HR20. I have had this unit since they became available fall of 06 and it has been very reliable up to now. On Monday I added 2 series recordings via. the D* web interface, and chose the 'always' record option on both. When I got home, I checked to make sure the new entries showed up in the prioritizer. They were there, but I decided to tweak the order of a few of the entries. After doing this, I noticed that some of the entires had the same 'order', i.e. Top Gear and Nova were both 19 out of 23. I figured/hoped that a background process with correct this later.

Last night I was watching a recording when I realized the unit was not recording Fringe, which was one of the series I had added on Monday. I checked my to do list, and it had only single manual recordings listed. So I check my prioritize list, and nothing showed a single upcoming event. Also, the numbering of the series was totally screwed up, with 6 things shown as '1'. I re-booted the HR20, but that did nothing to fix it. So I painfully deleted all entries from the prioritizer. I then added 6 or 7 back and am hoping those will be correct when I check them tonight.

If the unit is still hosed, should I try the 'reset everything' approach? Will I loose any stored recordings? Will I have to re-define all series recordings again?

 

[Rich]

This sounds very similar to an issue I had last night with my HR20. I have had this unit since they became available fall of 06 and it has been very reliable up to now. On Monday I added 2 series recordings via. the D* web interface, and chose the 'always' record option on both. When I got home, I checked to make sure the new entries showed up in the prioritizer. They were there, but I decided to tweak the order of a few of the entries. After doing this, I noticed that some of the entires had the same 'order', i.e. Top Gear and Nova were both 19 out of 23. I figured/hoped that a background process with correct this later.

Last night I was watching a recording when I realized the unit was not recording Fringe, which was one of the series I had added on Monday. I checked my to do list, and it had only single manual recordings listed. So I check my prioritize list, and nothing showed a single upcoming event. Also, the numbering of the series was totally screwed up, with 6 things shown as '1'. I re-booted the HR20, but that did nothing to fix it. So I painfully deleted all entries from the prioritizer. I then added 6 or 7 back and am hoping those will be correct when I check them tonight.

If the unit is still hosed, should I try the 'reset everything' approach? Will I loose any stored recordings? Will I have to re-define all series recordings again?

You lose everything. Comparable to the format C drive command on a PC.

Rich

 

[f300v10]

I was afraid of that, thanks for the warning. I guess that will be my last resort.

 

[f300v10]

Well I think it is good news. Checked my todo list after re-creating my series lists, and all looked correct. It looks like deleting all the lists and starting over 'fixed' it.

However, I am still seeing some strange behavior. When I added another series list it was shown as '9 out of 25', even though there are only 9 series lists shown. So somewhere the box in the code the box is still counting the previously deletes lists.

 

[finaldiet]

Can'tyou just set it to record first run only?

 

[Rich]

I was afraid of that, thanks for the warning. I guess that will be my last resort.

Not only do you lose everything, it has never solved a problem that I have had and I don't remember reading about anyone having a problem solved by using the format option.

Rich