Recent content by Woody17

Firstly many thanks to Newcoppiceman for sending me a few 4u7/25V capacitors and some additional comments and guidance on making the repair and confirming that I should read all of the points made in the thread about his fix. I today removed the old cap, soldered in the new one, plugged it all...

Good point about swapping the HDD to the replacement unit and I would have certainly gone down the route of the decryption process with either route. I had also considered moving files a FVP 4000 device I have or onto a NAS. I will also try the repair, as it seems worth seeing if it can be...

The symptoms exactly match what has been described in the thread. As stated the device booted normally after disconnecting both cables to the HDD. I did also try reconnecting the HDD and slightly warming up the capacitor with a hair dryer to see if it would reboot whilst connected, but this...

I have the same issue identified, thanks to Ezra for pointing me to this thread. I have now proven that by disconnecting the HDD, I can get it to boot up normally rather than just rebooting. I am therefore going to attempt to install the 4u7/25V to see if it rectifies the fault. I had today...