Help Me Back Up My Shows

[jrapps]

Hopper started acting up last night doing random reboots and acting very sluggish. Sometimes it will reboot and asked me to insert the smart card again and generally after 2 to 3 minutes the entire thing locks up. dish is sending me a new hopper but I'm not able to backup my TV shows onto an external hard drive.

Does anyone know if there is a way to boot the hopper into a safe mode or diagnostic mode of some sort that will let me back up to an external hard drive without it locking up? I know it's a long shot but I figure it's better than nothing.

 

[KAB]

Sorry, no such thing.

 

[harshness]

What is the ambient temperature?

If it is toasty, you could try doing this when it is cooler.

 

[DustoMan]

One time a similar thing happened to me. I had to unplug the satellite feed from the hopper to keep it from rebooting. This allowed me to dump my recordings to the external drive via the transfer menu. Wouldn't hurt to give that a try.