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The hard drive ATX plug delivers 0V, no matter which way I connect the multimeter. There is a little socket for the HDD fan, which is delivering 1V though.

So I put the PSU to the multimeter test. The 2 12V pins are outputting 12-14V and the 2 5.8V outputs are between 3.5-8V. The ground pins are happily 0V. Not great or terribly stable but it seems it's alive. Sadly I don't have an oscilloscope to show the wave form. One thing I can try is to...

The machine is really quite dead, no lights of any kind come on, not even the Ethernet port. The box has been left without power connection for a few days to no avail (it died last Thursday, was disconnected, got the replacement 2000T on Saturday and it's been left unpowered since). If I were...

I do have a multimeter and I'll make it one of my jobs at the weekend to measure the outputs of the power supply.

Hello, My Humax HDR FOX T2 is no longer powering up. One day it just failed to start up, none of the lights come on, nothing. I've already replaced it with a 2000T as I was looking to upgrade the HDD anyway. However, I'd like to be able to recover the numerous recordings that are on the old...