Hello everyone. This is my first post after being here many times and getting all of my issues sorted by searching the previous posts. I have trawled the older posts but I am still stuck and hope someone can help.
I have a Humax Foxsat HDR 320Gb receiver for a number of years and am really happy with it. I installed Raydon’s custom firmware about a year ago and everything was perfect.
In the past couple of months it has started freezing (picture frozen, can’t change channel) and has needed a power cycle to get back going. I have also experienced multiple failed recordings. Booting became very slow and in the end I could not access my recordings. Through a bit of searching I came to the conclusion that my hard drive could be failing.
So I bought a 1Tb Western Digital AV-GP SATA 6 GB/s hard drive. I installed it but could not get it to work. After a bit more searching I spotted that I should have gotten a drive with 1.5 GB/s rating and even with the jumper on pins 5 and 6 of the drive I bought I would only get down to 3 GB/s.
So, after telling myself what an idiot I was I bought a Western Digital 500 GB AV-GP SATA-300 3GB/s drive. I installed the jumpers on pins 5 and 6 to drop the rating to 1.5 Gb/s and installed in the Humax and still nothing.
When I boot up after installing the hard drive the sequence that I see is:
Sometimes nothing, just red light comes on on the front and nothing on screen.
Sometimes I get the boot message but nothing on the screen even after 8 hours.
If I plug out the hard drive from the main board of the Humax the unit boots fine and just gives me a message telling me that the internal HDD was not found. I have reloaded Raydon’s firmware in the hopes that I had somehow corrupted it but this hasn’t helped either. I followed a guide for formatting the hard drive in an external caddy before installation but still no joy. I also cannot access the box via Ethernet anymore, not sure if this is connected.
Is there anything else I could try to get my box up and running or should I just dump it at this stage? I would hate to get rid of it as I did everything I wanted.
Any help gratefully accepted.
