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dare2be

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Last reply Mar 7, 2020 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Yay :(

Dealing with a hardware issue on my 722. Never seen this one before.

Last night, I noticed that all my OTA channel signal levels dropped to below 60, which made every one of them get a complete signal loss or unwatchable content. Then the box started to respond very slowly to the point of freezing up for up to a minute at a time, so I did a soft reset.

As soon as the sat signal finished its acquiring stage, it rebooted again. After a couple more reboots, it finally stabilized and I was using the DVR as normal, but my OTA channels were still fubar.

This morning I turned it on and it immediately rebooted, and went into a cycle where it would reboot as soon as it finished acquiring signal and going to live tv. I found that if I get into the DVR menu before the signal finishes acquiring, I can use the DVR, watch and manage recordings, etc. Only when I would go back to live tv it would reboot.

So now I unplugged the SAT coax so that the signal never finishes and I am in the process of offloading my DVR contents to EHD, in prep for a replacement.

Anyone ever seen this before?

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TheKrell

Mar 7, 2020

I just plugged in a brand new Seagate USB3 6TB drive into my H3 and nothing happened. I am now getting the update as we "speak".

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charlesrshell

Mar 7, 2020

TheKrell said:
I just plugged in a brand new Seagate USB3 6TB drive into my H3 and nothing happened. I am now getting the update as we "speak".

Hope to hear your new Seagate works after the update.

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TheKrell

Mar 7, 2020

charlesrshell said:
Hope to hear your new Seagate works after the update.

I'm up to 547 and my 6TB Seagate still does not show up. My AirTV adapter does show up, and I plugged that into the front of the Seagate. I don't think that's the problem...

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charlesrshell

Mar 7, 2020

TheKrell said:
I'm up to 547 and my 6TB Seagate still does not show up. My AirTV adapter does show up, and I plugged that into the front of the Seagate. I don't think that's the problem...

Did you try a pull the Hopper cord reset?

TheKrell

Mar 7, 2020

charlesrshell said:
Did you try a pull the Hopper cord reset?

I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.

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pattykay

Mar 7, 2020

TheKrell said:
I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.

Going to the right thread will usually have that effect.

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charlesrshell

Mar 7, 2020

TheKrell said:
I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.

What did you do fix the issue?

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TheKrell

Mar 7, 2020

charlesrshell said:
What did you do fix the issue?

Software U547 on Hopper3

Started the update 85 mins ago and it has been on this screen for 35 mins. Normally it doesn't take this long. Any ideas how long it takes for this newest updatel Mine took 20 minutes with no issues

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dare2be

Mar 7, 2020

The bigger EHD they are, the harder they crash.

Still don't have a useable OTA tuner, but everything else has come back to life.

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pattykay

Mar 7, 2020

dare2be said:
The bigger EHD they are, the harder they crash.

Still don't have a useable OTA tuner, but everything else has come back to life.

Unfortunately, this still could be a sign that your receiver is starting to fail. The problem you describe in your original post sounds a lot like what my ViP211 with a built-in OTA tuner did, right before it started to die.

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iJustine

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"MysteryMan"

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Last reply 22 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Windows 10/11 Download

I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.

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EarDemon

Oct 13, 2026

If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

WhiteBeard

Oct 13, 2026

EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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EarDemon

Oct 14, 2026

WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

harshness

Oct 15, 2026

EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

harshness

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.

I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.

HipKat

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply 48 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

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