Thank you all for your patience with my confused post! However I hope the following does not confuse any further!
I have had a chance to take a further look today. The following is happening.
- I have now upgraded to, what I think is the latest CFW - 1.03.12_mod_3.13
- On startup - from power on via the rear switch or from standby
- If the HDD is fully connected - unit goes into a boot cycle as previously described - I cannot access anything.
- I have tried an alternative 250Gb drive and has the same effect.
- If I leave the SATA cable connected to the main board but disconnect the power connector from the main board, the unit powers up properly and tunes to a channel.
- If I then reconnect the HDD power to the main board whilst the unit is running, the HDD powers up and is available, including previous recordings. The unit appears to be able to function normally and will record manually. I have not tried timed recordings as if I go into standby, I know the unit will boot cycle.
So it appears to be an issue with starting the HDD from standby. I don't know if this is a PSU issue, but unless there is some kind of control of the HDD which comes via the PSU, I cannot see this as a PSU problem. But have no idea really!
However to my previous question
Is this a power supply problem?
Black Hole said:
the HDD is powered via the main board so that the HDD can be turned off in standby (the PSU is on all the time), so clearly there is a chance the main board switching components are the problem.
Just to return to the original train of thought, the question remains why the unit would not come out of the boot cycle until I installed the 1.02.07 FW? Following something on the forum, previous to my original post, I had previously tried disconnecting the HDD and the unit would not move out of boot cycle. I had tried installing other version of CFW (including 1.03.12) and had got nowhere. It was only when I installed 1.02.07 that I got the unit functioning as described in this current post. Having now tried 1.03.12 I now have it working with the problems described.
I have connected the full browser and have successfully decrypted and downloaded a recording after a bit of trial and error on how to do this!
When I first got into the web browser this afternoon, a HDD fault flagged up but I cannot find what that was - sorry for vagueness. I am guessing it was something to do with the fact that the HDD was not powered up when the unit initialised, but I may be wrong.
I have attached downloads of the log files in case they reveal anything.
Many thanks for persevering with this and again, apologies for confusion as I really don't understand much!