Recent content by Dave Gormans

Update: Resolved. The new drive is fine. i bought a very cheap second hand hdr fox t2 and put the 2tb drive in and formatted it using normal humax menu So far so good I can only presume that it was the power supply on my original unit. Thx all for your help

Spoke too soon. It did wake up and record programmes overnight. But when I started it this morning it took over a minute for the hdd icon to appear and then be able to access the disk. It would be interesting to understand what process is running that ultimately asserts that the disk is ok and...

I started to think that also, so opened up the box and checked all the connections. Took the drive out and put it back in, making sure each connection was firmly in. Restarted and i think it is much better. I cant press the video button immediately ( like i used to with the old 1tb drive), but...

unfortunately after installing the first firmware successfully.. the box is stock in a loop at start up.. display shows "start system" and the screen pops up with the humax splash screen. installing any other firmware again results in the same start loop..until i reinstall the original custom...

will have a go and report back. Can i just install each firmware over the previous one ? or do i roll back each one before applying the next

Seagate ST2000VM003 Pipeline HD 2 TB I had read threads that this was one of the better drives for the humax, as its the same range that they use. When it is picked up, it works fine and also passes all tests. The disc spins up as soon as the machine starts, hence it makes me think the issue is...

Thx for the instructions. I had actually tried letting Humax format and had teh same issue and hence turned to GPT. But i just tried that again and the same problem is present. If you then go into maintenance mode etc.. and try and run any disk check tools then they fail with a no disk found...

Thanks for the reply. Yes it was fine before (although I had the deleting issue and fix disk could not resolve) I only used the custom firmware tools to format...Nothing fancy. I think the option was Gptf. It ran with no errors. Tried it twice..same issue. Is it actually an issue that the...

Installed a new 2tb seagate and partitioned using custom firmware tools. Issue i am having is that it can take 2-20mins from pressing the Media button for it to actually become functional. No other issues, but until then the unit can not record ( and of course no scheduled recordings occur if...