Hello again everyone. Seems like only yesterday.....
A problem kicked off this morning that may well related to the previous in the post, which is why I am adding it here.
The new drive has been in and working for 2 1/2 months. My Foxsat 1 (which I shall now refer to as Foxsat 1 to differentiate if from my Foxsat 2) has been well behaved until this morning. Was playing a recording when the picture froze and it said "bad or no signal", screen went black, still with "bad or no signal". Foxsat 1 would then not respond to any buttons and no access to CF. Powered off with switch. Restarted the system and the recording and did the same, tried another recording, did the same.
Moved the recording to Foxsat 2 and played it off Foxsat 1 over my network, as 2 is mounted as a NAS on 1. Again it locked up at about the same point.
Tried playing recording directly off Foxsat 2 and it was fine.
Did a factory reset on Foxsat 1. At the wizard when trying to stop it looking for new software the stop button GUI froze depressed, eventually powered it off with the power switch.
When it rebooted managed to get a reflash working of the latest CF. When I got to the wizard got through to saving channel search. The dialogue for saving channels took a long time to go away.
When I got back in to the system it was slow. What I thought was freezing this morning was possibly the system going very slow. Changing channels with the remote, it will stick on one channel for a minute or so before eventually changing. Same with Filezilla going into folders, sometimes straight away often a long pause. The Web Interface too has long pauses.
Turning the unit off from the front panel button, the sound and picture go from the telly, but the blue display stays there for 5 plus seconds. Foxsat 2 the display goes out immediately when turned off.
In the time its taken to write this, Foxsat 1 has started responding as normal, channel changing, CF as snappy as they should be. So went to the recording that seemed to start it all off, again it froze at about the same point. Pressed the power button on the front, but this time waited. Eventually it did go off. Turned it on again and now its all sluggish again. Currently its sitting at trying to load the Media menu, while the CF is working, its taking 20-30 seconds to respond.
It the time its taken to proof read this, its still stuck Media but CF and Filezilla as snappy.
Sorry that was so long, but hopefully it might give someone a clue what is going wrong. I hope not my new drive!!!