Hi folks. Sorry to bump an old thread but our HDR-1000S has developed this fault, i.e. when powered on at the mains it displays STARTING on its built in display, displays Humax and freesat on the TV before restarting and doing that over and over again.
I tried powering it off at the mains (removing power to the mains adapter) and leaving it for hours before trying again, but the same result.
The next thing I tried was a hunch after reading about HDMI problems in the past. I removed the HDMI cable and Ethernet cable and tried again. To begin with it seemed to do two or three restart cycles but then I heard the hard drive come to life, so I left it for a while and went to do some other jobs. When I came back I was pleased to see it was showing a channel name (UTV) on its own display. Not wanting to plug the HDMI back in with the box powered on, I pressed the standby/power button. Once in standby (red standby light on and built in display clear) I plugged in the HDMI and pressed the power button again but it just repeated the restarting problem continually again! Since then I have tried this again multiple times (no HDMI cable plugged in) but it has never got to the point of displaying a channel name on its display or anything other than continually restarting.
I have tried leaving it powered off for hours again but when powered on it just does the same thing again.
I have tried installing the beta firmware version mentioned on the second page of this thread. I did this with the HDMI cable plugged in so that I could see what was going on. The firmware seemed to install fine - both progress bars got to 100% and I got the message on screen saying to press the standby button to restart the box. I did that but it still restarts continuously.
After that I have tried leaving powered off at the mains for another 15 minutes and powering on again but it's just doing the same thing again.
There we no obvious indications of anything going wrong before this happened a few days ago. Nothing other than the occasional freeze up every couple of months or so, which I just put down to being 'one of those things' with these boxes.
Does anyone know what is actually happening when it displays this behaviour? Is it failing to see the hard drive? Is it some problem in NVRAM? (Remember, the firmware installation seemed to work though.)
Is there anything else I can try? I'm a Linux Systems Engineer so I'm happy with connecting the hard drive to another computer, installing a new hard drive, etc, but I don't know whether it's worth the effort. Has anyone managed to fix this fault without having the box replaced? I bought this one as a Grade A unit from Humax Direct in December 2013 so I'm now outside the one year warranty that came on the Grade A units.
| Sat 28 Feb 2015 22:49:42
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