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I seem to have a new problem which has happened twice now, once last week and once today. 1H1J system, when I go to watch TV on the Hopper it will have either the screensaver or a blank screen, with audio playing in the background. If I press menu I can get all the menus and settings, but...

Does anyone know if you can have a Joey not use the screensaver and just blank the monitor instead?

My problem was resolved by a call to Dish, disconnecting the EHD, resetting, and reconnecting. When I asked what was done I was told "I did send an activation hit to the receiver." so I assume even though the EHD appeared on my account the Hopper was not aware it was activated. So I can...

Took the EHD out and connected it to a PC, it was partitioned something like 1GB, 500GB, 500GB, 862GB. Deleted all those partitions, created a single large partition and did a quick format. Reconnected the EHD to the Hopper, which again realized it needed to be formatted, took about 3 mins to...

Thanks Tampa8, not sure how to force it to reformat as it is now detected as formatted. Also noticed after format it reported the size as 1.802TB, so it seemed like it formatted ok. Only other thing that comes to mind is that this was a new out of the box drive, did it need to be partitioned...

Hi, I just installed a Seagate Barracuda 2T (STBD2000101) drive in a SIIG USB 2.0 to SATA enclosure on my Hopper. Made sure to get a USB 2.0 only enclosure rather than 3.0 to be safe. Install went as follows: 1) Drive recognized as external device by Hopper when powered on. 2) Asked to...

Hi All, Just made it through reading all the msgs, whew :eek: I have a week old, self installed, 1 Hopper 1 Joey system, just a sling box adapter this week. Install was definitely something any moderately technical person could handle, I was lucky no antenna or cabling changes were required...