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I've had a Humax HDR Fox T2 since they were available brand new in Currys, my main unit has had several replacement hard drives over the years and performs beyond expectations, however ...
one was recently bought off eBay as not working, it has no hard drive, the power lead had been wound up inside the case and the on/off switch was missing
from a Humax DTR-1000 which shares a few parts, I replaced the switch and mains lead and have been able to turn the unit on, it shows [ system start ], when connected to a tv with hdmi, it shows a tv picture when an aerial is connected, the web portal works fine, so I thought the hard drive out of the DTR-1000 would do the trick as it uses the same hard drive carrier, the hard drive has had all partitions deleted and formatted as a blank drive
trying to boot the Humax HDR Fox T2 with the hard drive installed (power and data leads connected) the Humax just cycles through the green boot screen, at no time does the boot process end with a steady tv picture, thinking the power supply may not be providing enough oomph, the power supply was replaced from the DTR-1000 (the DTR-1000 was working fine when I stopped using it), the Humax HDR Fox T2 still does not boot correctly with the hard drive connected, however ...
when the hard drive is disconnected from the power (data lead still connected), the Humax HDR Fox T2 booted ok, the hard drive power was carefully reconnected, the Humax HDR Fox T2 then showed an alert about the hard drive needing to be formatted, the format completed ok and shows no errors
restarting with the hard drive connected (power and data) with a usb thumb drive with the latest custom firmware installed with no issues, restarting causes the boot loop, switching off at mains and restarting with hard drive power disconnected, then connecting hard drive power lead, I was able to complete the custom firmware install
any suggestion gratefully received
I've had a Humax HDR Fox T2 since they were available brand new in Currys, my main unit has had several replacement hard drives over the years and performs beyond expectations, however ...
one was recently bought off eBay as not working, it has no hard drive, the power lead had been wound up inside the case and the on/off switch was missing
from a Humax DTR-1000 which shares a few parts, I replaced the switch and mains lead and have been able to turn the unit on, it shows [ system start ], when connected to a tv with hdmi, it shows a tv picture when an aerial is connected, the web portal works fine, so I thought the hard drive out of the DTR-1000 would do the trick as it uses the same hard drive carrier, the hard drive has had all partitions deleted and formatted as a blank drive
trying to boot the Humax HDR Fox T2 with the hard drive installed (power and data leads connected) the Humax just cycles through the green boot screen, at no time does the boot process end with a steady tv picture, thinking the power supply may not be providing enough oomph, the power supply was replaced from the DTR-1000 (the DTR-1000 was working fine when I stopped using it), the Humax HDR Fox T2 still does not boot correctly with the hard drive connected, however ...
when the hard drive is disconnected from the power (data lead still connected), the Humax HDR Fox T2 booted ok, the hard drive power was carefully reconnected, the Humax HDR Fox T2 then showed an alert about the hard drive needing to be formatted, the format completed ok and shows no errors
restarting with the hard drive connected (power and data) with a usb thumb drive with the latest custom firmware installed with no issues, restarting causes the boot loop, switching off at mains and restarting with hard drive power disconnected, then connecting hard drive power lead, I was able to complete the custom firmware install
any suggestion gratefully received