Recent content by tomeckle

Without a doubt my recent experience with DISH customer service was the best I have ever received from any company anywhere. Starting with an initial contact with Zach of the DIRT team about difficulty with dvr playback, through dvr replacement, and ultimately a service call from DISH of...

Replaced the DVR and now everything works as intended...thanks everyone for the suggestions Tom

Thanks, but dvr is refusing to play or transfer at present, even after hard re-boot...ordered replacement 722 Friday from DIRT Cayucostom

I just purchased a WD elements 1 TB drive to use as an ehd to my 722 dvr. I am unable to consistently copy or archive programs. Occasionally, a program transfers, but most end up locking the receiver, requiring a reboot. the DVR software is L676...so far I am able to generally watch recorded...

I just purchased a WD elements 1 TB drive to use as an ehd to my 722 dvr. I am unable to consistently copy or archive programs. Occasionally, a program transfers, but most end up locking the receiver, requiring a reboot. the DVR software is L676...so far I am able to generally watch recorded...

I will try playing from the EHD this weekend when I have some free time and post the results. Get back to you first of the week. Thanks for the help tom

Software is version L674, HDD temp avg 111, HDD SMART =0...I am not sure what other diagnostics to use. Assistance is appreciated Tom

Generally the sticking occurs during fast forwarding during playback. However it has occurred as program is playing. Deleting the sticking program is the plan once we discover which ones hang-up. However we would like to view some episodes that we have recorded...not sure which ones are going to...

I did not try to play from external drive..I just off loaded and reloaded to see if that solved the issue. External drive is verrry slow...

Occasionally, my 722 receiver hangs on playback and the only way to unstick it is to reset the receiver. If I try to play the same show again the receiver hangs in about the same place. I have copied the offending program to an external DVR and returned to the 722 and it still hangs in about...

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tests-612 I did the HDD Smart test and HDD appears fine..I am leary of doing some of the other tests because I am not sure of what I am doing and dont want to re-initiallize the disk. I have called ATT/Dish tech support and they dont have much of a clue except to exchange the 612. Thanks for...

bad sectors Probably beyond my technical skill set...unless there is a software method that does not involve opening the unit. perhaps some utility resident in the dvr itself that can be accessed by commands from the remote? The counters do not suggest HD issues though....

While heat maybe why the unit doesn't respond to a reset/I dont believe heat is the cause of the freezing up, however here are the counters for temp average 105, low 80 high 122, I have 2 fans and a usb pad cooling the av cabinet and the counters reveal they work well. The sporadic nature of...

About 2 months ago in January, my 622 was making noise like it was running, I couldn't get a picture black screen on TV1, TV2 snow and nothing seemed impact the situation, power off reset or anything even left power off for 20 minutes or so. I unplugged the unit and went to sleep Next morning...