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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:26 GMT, Steph
<CUT_skipatrol@hotmail.com_CUT> wrote:
>Mark Lloyd <mlloyd@5xxxmail.com5xxx> wrote in
>news:b0kt511ndncluj44o0vm7uc1t0q7apmtf1@4ax.com:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:33:30 GMT, Steph
>><CUT_skipatrol@hotmail.com_CUT> wrote:
>>
>>>falsedawn2@hotmail.com wrote in
>news:d3ar51pqj0piucs0d0mkul8iolilvemt3t@
>>>4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> My ReplayTV 5160 recently began rebooting spontaneously; it won't go
>>>> an hour without doing so. It happens when off, when recording or
>when
>>>> playing back. Sometimes upon booting it will freeze at the "Please
>>>> wait..." screen; once it healed itself after several hours, and
>>>> another time I was able to boot it successfully by pulling power for
>a
>>>> minute, something that many times doesn't work. Any ideas on what
>>>> could be wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> John
>>>
>>>One of my 4504's exhibit this behavior, or have.
>>>Of course I know for a fact the hard drive should be suspect... the
>>>whole unit took a 4 foot fall to the [carpeted thankfully] floor.
>>>
>>>If I toggle the system to "bypass" when it finishes booting and begins
>>>to buffer live input I can keep it running. However when this
>condition
>>>happens, it will buffer live tv for a bit then stutter, then freeze,
>>>then reboot.
>>>
>>>The last it did this was about 10 minutes prior to LOST beginning.
>>>Obviously I was upset and had to deal with misbehaving technology and
>an
>>>upset spouse.
>>>
>>>That was the semi-final straw. The next day I downloaded any shows I
>>>cared about and did a factory reset. To be sure the image partition
>>>would be different I adjusted the photo partition to a new size as
>part
>>>of the setup.
>>>
>>>A side benefit was I re-entered all of my themes and show channels
>from
>>>scratch -- this was a good thing after a few years of use.
>>>
>>>The original drive was only a 40GB and the stutter problem always
>>>appeared when the drive was fairly full and the buffer would hit a
>>>certain spot; so far the drive is still pretty empty and no problems.
>>>If it fills again and acts up I will upgrade it's drive, my other
>4504
>>>has a 250GB drive in it.
>>>
>>>So your choices are:
>>>
>>>1) image a new drive and upgrade to a clean system
>>>2) image a new drive and optionally copy over your shows
>>>3) copy over the system and shows partitions to a new drive
>>>or
>>>4) reset to factory defaults
>>>5) reimage original drive (which will reset to factory defaults
>>>
>>
>> You may not need a new drive. Try #5 above before trying #1. I just
>> fixed a Replay (thay was losing shows and corrupting the Replay guide)
>> that way.
>>
>>
>
>
>That is true, however I wrote them out in that fashion and left a part
>out; I would upgrade to a newer/larger drive if doing options 1-3.
>
Upgrade to a larger drive if you'd use the space.
I was going to upgrade my Replay (I already had a 250GB drive, the
largest at the time), but never did because of DVArchive. That 250GB
drive is now in my computer.
>Options 4/5 are for those that don't wish to spend any money [yet].
I did enable the whole 80GB on my 5060.
--
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