Recent content by PerryM

So I installed 'fan', set it to 60% (barely audible) and so far so good. It would thus appear that the standard fan mode is set to come on at too high a temperature for my box for whatever reason. The great news for me is that the fan is definitely working. Thanks again for all the support.

I was just ahead of you Peter, the airflow line in the Smart stats was showing red and I cannot hear or feel a fan flow. Since I have replaced the fan with the other hard drive, I can only assume that for some reason there is no power on the mobo fan socket. Maybe the temp sensor has failed. I...

Classic overconfidence! Everything worked great - I decrypted all my existing recordings and then ran fixdisk with no apparent issues. The machine was working fine UNTIL I put the lid back on and put it back under the TV! Within a minute or so, I lost the HD sound again - exactly the same...

You are very wise and after all there is no rush, so I am following your suggestions to the letter and sticking with the Humax for processing. Progressing well so far with the first half dozen decrypted. Many thanks to you and the others for your patience and knowledge to keep this old fart...

OK - disconnecting the HD sorts out the sound issue. Clearly I need to replace the HD so I might as well use the one from my dead Humax. I have gone through all the suggested literature on recovering my encrypted HD recordings so I understand how to do it in the rebuilt Humax. Is there any...

Fixdisk finished - it found an awful lot of bad blocks. After a Humax disk format I am still showing more than half of the disk (500GB) is 'used', is this indicative of all the bad blocks or is it some other form of file corruption? The audio fault is still there but it is now limited to HD...

Thanks for that. CFW installed, with full Internet access. Currently running fixdisk which I gather may take some hours. Concerning the other matter - where do I find the encryption key?

Sorry for the length of this query - trying to get all questions in one post. My HDR-FOX T2 with customised firmware just suddenly stopped working - dead as a dodo. I bought a standard replacement from Ebay (very cheap) that had sat in a garage for a couple of years unused, but looks fine with...