9200T going for landfill

"Max Demian" wrote:
"Graham" wrote in message
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"Max Demian" wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , Robin

writes
Bill wrote:

Right, that's it, my 9200 is going for landfill.

I do hope you are joking about the landfill. There's lots of old
[1]
folks who need to replace their VCRs. My limited experience is
that
the
PVR9200T fits their needs nicely. I'd take it off you in a flash
if
you
were within a shout of London as I have a queue of old[1]
acquaintances.

[1] old is of course a moving target = my age + ~20

Only semi joking Robin, It has given me years of good service,
hard
drive
replaced a year ago but otherwise OK.
It then started to suffer from some very strange problem where it
would
record one program but call it something else, sometimes with odd
non UK
characters in the text. Plus it would have the wrong synopsis
for
what it
had recorded, most weird.

Have you tried reformatting the HD for this?

When my HD failed while looked for an alternative I put in a smaller
disk. This seemed to accentuate filesystem issues, etc. Then after
putting on a much much larger disk the problems magically went away.
I've not reformatted for over a year. All I get now is the slow down
and
scheduled recordings tend to disappear after a while. I would say
that
keeping. The used space below 50% helps keep my Hummy happy.

Maybe you fitted the wrong kind of HD. The Humax is rather fussy.


The disk I replaced it with was from same family of disks as the disks
fitted by Humax. Seagate streaming media or something if I recall.

Even the original 160Gb disk showed filesystem issues when more than
half was in use.

Graham

In message , Graham
writes

The disk I replaced it with was from same family of disks as the disks
fitted by Humax. Seagate streaming media or something if I recall.

Even the original 160Gb disk showed filesystem issues when more than
half was in use.

Graham

Can anyone recommend a replacement HD?

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Bill

In message , Bill
writes
In message ,
Graham writes

The disk I replaced it with was from same family of disks as the disks
fitted by Humax. Seagate streaming media or something if I recall.

Even the original 160Gb disk showed filesystem issues when more than
half was in use.

Graham

Can anyone recommend a replacement HD?

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product...102&cat=access
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Ian

"Ian" wrote in message
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In message , Bill
writes
In message , Graham
writes

The disk I replaced it with was from same family of disks as the disks
fitted by Humax. Seagate streaming media or something if I recall.

Even the original 160Gb disk showed filesystem issues when more than
half was in use.

Graham

Can anyone recommend a replacement HD?

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product...102&cat=access

I don't think that's in stock.

See this thread on Digital Spy for ideas:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1247901

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Max Demian

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:41:58 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Albert Ross
wrote

The Topfield is not supported by the manufacturer with regards
software/firmware. Their last effort at Freeview+ is over a year old,
it's as buggy as hell and not a single bug fix in site.

Damn, I haven't been keeping up. The original 5800 was quite usable
out of the box and I only updated the firmware a couple of times.

And possibly one of those updates had very little to do with Topfield.
The ''Split NIT' bug was fixed by a customer and not Topfield.

I can't remember the story now but one of the programmers either moved
from Topfield to Humax or vice versa.

Possibly he was the only person in the world who (almost) knew how to
program the chip.

If we knew where he works now we may be on to something

In article , Bill
writes

Can anyone recommend a replacement HD?

Look for a CE (consumer electronics) hard drive. I've seen
Seagate/Maxtor and WD branded ones.

Try and find one with the same or lower current draw on the 5v and 12v
lines. The PSUs in PVRs are often marginal.

--
Mike Tomlinson

In article , Steve Thackery
writes

Was this written as a joke?

Nope. Heat is bad for caps and the PSUs in PVRs are very often marginal
- only just sufficient to run the hardware, so they run hot.

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Mike Tomlinson

In article , Johnny B Good
writes

"Bad Caps" is a pretty common failure in most electronic kit. It's been
the bane of PC motherboards for the past 15 years or so and it's, in
this case, "(including noise on the 5V/12V lines)" the most likely cause
(the alternative of inductors developing shorted turns is significantly
less probable[1]).

I've just looked at an external SCSI DLT tape drive. That had bad caps
on the 12V output of the PSU, causing it to rise to 20V under load. No
overvoltage protection was fitted.

Needless to say, the drive is toast.

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Mike Tomlinson

In article en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes

I'm astonished by the number of electronic faults that are diagnosed remotely
as requiring nothing more than replacement of all the capacitors,

I have 25 years of experience, so do have an idea of what I speak.

a procedure
that with most modern circuitry would probably do more harm than good.

Complete nonsense.

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Mike Tomlinson

In article en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes

Regarding my "more harm than good" comment, I was thinking of modern close-
packed circuit boards, which do not in general lend themselves to frequent
component replacement, if at all.

Power supplies are not close-packed. By their very nature they have to
have adequate spacing between tracks. I would not advise an
inexperienced user to attempt a repair to any modern highly-integrated
circuit board.

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