Recent content by Triumph Man

My connector has three pins. BH said that the third wire isn't used, but on my board it's connected to something - even if it isn't used. An I know I'm a wimp, but I didn't have any desoldering braid to hand. :(

It was this article too - helped me no end.

Good point, sir: doing it now. Must do better. Can't get the staff!

I did think of taking the connector off the PCB, but it looked rather fiddly and I have limited de-soldering equipment (and skills!). So I took the plunge and wired it up on the back of the PCB. The fan is surprisingly quiet, it certainly won't be a problem, and everything appears to be working...

Once again with my message this time :) Pretty sure it's a missing voltage. Have checked for dry joints. The fan hasn't worked for months, but runs fine when connected to a battery. I have the custom firmware and have set the fan to run all the time but it still doesn't go.

:) I work in the aviation industry, so that would be appropriate! :)

Thanks BH for your excellent article. Now, having followed your troubleshooting guide, I have determined that the fan is OK but the board isn't supplying it with the required volts. So I have the Hummy in bits on my desk; is there any reason why I shouldn't simply install a patch wire (on the...

My fan appears to have failed too. Where did you get your replacement, please? (currently running with the top casing off to keep it cool!)

Thanks again, I'll do that when the current 50GB copy operation has finished! Why is it that, despite looking through the available packages in the wiki, I missed that one? I plead old age and incompetence.

Thanks for the help, af123. I'm now going through my recovered recordings generating the missing .hmt files, copying them back to the primary hard drive, waiting for them to be decrypted and then finally using sidecar again to generate 'proper' hmt files. It's going to take a while!! At what...

Yes, of course, silly me. I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks for this reply. At the time of the failure I didn't have the custom firmware installed, so the HD recordings will be encrypted. I have installed it now (obviously, since I have a 3TB drive!). I will give the sidecar utility a try. I'm impressed with the custom firmware. Thanks for all the...

Well... sadly, no replies on here so I carried on regardless. To check out the Hummy main board, I decided to buy a brand new drive, install that and see if it gave any errors. Unfortunately I didn't do quite enough reading and I bought a WD Purple 3TB drive, only finding out afterwards that it...

I've been investigating the HDD problems with my Hummy for a few days now. I have followed the advice in several articles in the forum but I'm still having difficulty. It all started with the Hummy freezing and displaying a message about being unable to decrypt a recording or something very...