Hi Everyone,
my DTR-T1000 has started crashing over the last couple of weeks.
It only seems to happen when watching a recording or when recording a programme (either in Standbye or whilst watching another recording). It's because of this that i believe it might be a failing HDD.
Whilst watching a recording, the screen goes blank for a split second , the picture and sound return (often for a a good 10 mins), it goes blank again and either returns with a frozen screen or stays blank.
The remote is ignored and the display on the front of the box is frozen (i.e. no longer scrolls).
The onyl way out of it is to reboot the box. Sometimes a soft reboot is sufficient, sometimes it has to be powered off at the back.
I haven't seen it happen when watching live tv - but i don't do that very often - or when watching stuff on Demand (e.g. Sky Movies).
I saw MontysEvilTwin's posts but it's not quite the same problem.
What do you guys think? does it sound like a failing HDD? If so, how easy is it to replace with a new one?
I have done several maintenance mode resets - Internet/USB Recovery keeping recordings and deleting recordings. I have not done a Factory reset. I imagine the maintenance mode reset that deletes recordings formats the HDD anyway?
my DTR-T1000 has started crashing over the last couple of weeks.
It only seems to happen when watching a recording or when recording a programme (either in Standbye or whilst watching another recording). It's because of this that i believe it might be a failing HDD.
Whilst watching a recording, the screen goes blank for a split second , the picture and sound return (often for a a good 10 mins), it goes blank again and either returns with a frozen screen or stays blank.
The remote is ignored and the display on the front of the box is frozen (i.e. no longer scrolls).
The onyl way out of it is to reboot the box. Sometimes a soft reboot is sufficient, sometimes it has to be powered off at the back.
I haven't seen it happen when watching live tv - but i don't do that very often - or when watching stuff on Demand (e.g. Sky Movies).
I saw MontysEvilTwin's posts but it's not quite the same problem.
What do you guys think? does it sound like a failing HDD? If so, how easy is it to replace with a new one?
I have done several maintenance mode resets - Internet/USB Recovery keeping recordings and deleting recordings. I have not done a Factory reset. I imagine the maintenance mode reset that deletes recordings formats the HDD anyway?