Recent content by Sidewinder

Yeah the Fox caddy has lovely silicone dampers for fixing the HDD as does the early 'Fan' 2000T' s caddy (pictured). Still, I solved my noise problem for half hour's work & negligible cost.

Having had it a while I find my 2000T (fanless) to be quite noisy both in terms of drive motor whirr and head 'ticking'. A brass weight sat on a rubber sheet on top of the lid and more rubber sheet under the feet reduced it a little but it was still too loud - especially with TV off or in...

When the problem is on both 5v & 12v waver and go steady once the drive starts. I've looked at both boards and see no obvious damage to board or components, as the former is multi layered the problem could be hidden. SATA socket Seems firm, nothing obvious amiss, also see below. Latest: after...

I've got the exact same problem with my Fox t2, thought it was HDD failure (500gb seagate pipeline) but a new (1tb seagate pipeline) drive did exactly the same thing. Am using standard firmware 1.03.12. Here's what i've found: (* as in box off-off or in standby for long enough for internals to...