On Sunday afternoon, I was watching a recording (The Cain Mutiny) and when I tried to exit, the 722 froze up instead of returning to live programming. So I did a long press of the on/off button. When the system came back, it played live just fine and the guide worked. But if I pushed the Dish button on the remote to access recordings, I got an error saying: "Server connection failure. Receiver is unable to connect to network server". The error number was 145. Web search didn't find anything useful.
I tried unplugging the 722 for a while and that had no effect: played live fine but, errored when trying to access recordings. But when I did it again, I got no picture or sound at all and no lights on the 722 other than a brief green light when powered on and then intermittently after long intervals coinciding with the fan noise that comes with power on. Although the screen was blank, the TV constantly reports there was a source at 1080i on that HDMI port which is normal for the 722.
Although a disk hardware problem shouldn't cause this, I wanted to see if maybe it contributed to a more complex problem, so I took the cover off and unplugged the SATA cable from the drive. When i did that, live pictures came back.
So I wondered if a disk failure may be causing some software problem. I plugged the SATA cable on the 722 internal drive into a SATA to USB3 adapter and found I could see and read the various 722 disk volumes just fine from a PC. Of course that doesn't rule out some data corruption BUT I could still play videos directly from the 722 drive on the PC, at least the dozen I tried.
At this point, I don't know if there is a problem with software embedded in the 722 or some corruption on the disk. BUT, I don't have a way to run any disk diagnostics on the 722 since the 722 is completely dead if the SATA cable between the drive and MB is connected.
So unless someone has seen this and has a fix, my preference is to somehow reflash the 722 itself and see if that fixes things. If that doesn't work, I could wipe the drive BUT I don't really have a way to do that since the 722 won't even boot with the drive attached via SATA and my PC access is via software that only provides read access.
I want to do it in that order (722 first, then disk if needed) because I'd like to retain many many recordings on that drive. And it appears that the disk is probably okay since I can browse the directories and even view every video I try if I attach said drive to a PC.
Any suggestions or insight?
I tried unplugging the 722 for a while and that had no effect: played live fine but, errored when trying to access recordings. But when I did it again, I got no picture or sound at all and no lights on the 722 other than a brief green light when powered on and then intermittently after long intervals coinciding with the fan noise that comes with power on. Although the screen was blank, the TV constantly reports there was a source at 1080i on that HDMI port which is normal for the 722.
Although a disk hardware problem shouldn't cause this, I wanted to see if maybe it contributed to a more complex problem, so I took the cover off and unplugged the SATA cable from the drive. When i did that, live pictures came back.
So I wondered if a disk failure may be causing some software problem. I plugged the SATA cable on the 722 internal drive into a SATA to USB3 adapter and found I could see and read the various 722 disk volumes just fine from a PC. Of course that doesn't rule out some data corruption BUT I could still play videos directly from the 722 drive on the PC, at least the dozen I tried.
At this point, I don't know if there is a problem with software embedded in the 722 or some corruption on the disk. BUT, I don't have a way to run any disk diagnostics on the 722 since the 722 is completely dead if the SATA cable between the drive and MB is connected.
So unless someone has seen this and has a fix, my preference is to somehow reflash the 722 itself and see if that fixes things. If that doesn't work, I could wipe the drive BUT I don't really have a way to do that since the 722 won't even boot with the drive attached via SATA and my PC access is via software that only provides read access.
I want to do it in that order (722 first, then disk if needed) because I'd like to retain many many recordings on that drive. And it appears that the disk is probably okay since I can browse the directories and even view every video I try if I attach said drive to a PC.
Any suggestions or insight?