My FVP4000T was constantly cycling through reboot: red status light, Humax logo on screen, blue status light, logo disappears (seemingly HDMI signal to TV lost), red status light…
When this first started I took out the hard drive. This had the effect that the FVP4000T then booted ok, showing channels, guide, live TV, etc, but obviously unable to record.
I thought this probably indicated that the disk had failed - but I mounted the partitions on my computer with no problems. On the largest partition all the expected recordings were shown (unable to play back due to encryption).
Even though the disk seemed ok, I put a different, unformatted drive in the FVP4000T. This resulted in the constant reboot cycling again.
I took that drive out and checked that the FVP4000T would reboot without the drive (it did). So I formatted the replacement drive as a Linux drive with a single partition.
This time the FVP4000T booted, and I went through the system settings to do a factory reset with HDD format. However, that just seemed to result in the reboot cycling again.
I took the hard disk out again, but unfortunately doing the factory reset seems to have put the system into the constant reboot cycle - it will not boot at all now.
Is there some magic way to fix this, or is the FVP4000T now dead?
Thanks