I have a HWS with a single Joey 1.0, no EHD. I'm trying to understand the cause of a problem I've started to experience the last couple of days and possible resolutions before going to tech support. Would appreciate any thoughts about what's happening and what I might do to resolve.
Yesterday I found that recorded events would freeze periodically when played back at the set attached to the Hopper, usually locking up for between 3-10 seconds, and then resuming playback at a point advanced about the length of the pause. The problem occurred on any recorded event I tried, regardless of how long ago the recording was made. No problems with freezes watching live TV but, if the live broadcast was paused or rewound and played back, the freezes would occur at the same frequency. Resetting the Hopper (power cord and from the diagnostics menu) a couple of times did not clear the problem.
This morning, while watching live TV, the Hopper froze briefly and went into a reboot loop (tried 2-3 times), eventually displaying a "Hard Drive Failure 311" error and asking for a power cord reset. At that point live TV was OK and system status showed a bad HDD (red X). First time I've ever seen the 311 error.
Did the power cord reset. Hopper came back up OK, HDD did not reformat. Recordings were still intact, but freezes on playback still occurring. The HDD area (field f) of system status was blank just after the reset, but at some point it switched to good (green). I looked at the HDD counters and, except for temps which looked OK, wasn't sure if anything there pointed to a problem.
Am I looking at a developing HDD failure here? That's my best guess. Is the best resolution to replace the Hopper.? Or something else I might do?
I hate to complicate the Hopper problem further, but there's also a problem now on the Joey. I can't see a connection to the Hopper problem, but include it here in case there might be. Recorded events also freeze when played back on the Joey (that's expected). But live TV on the Joey is also freezing in the same way as recordings do. Resetting the Joey does not clear the problem. I wouldn't think that a problem with the Hopper's HDD would affect live broadcasts on the Joey, but maybe so?
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Yesterday I found that recorded events would freeze periodically when played back at the set attached to the Hopper, usually locking up for between 3-10 seconds, and then resuming playback at a point advanced about the length of the pause. The problem occurred on any recorded event I tried, regardless of how long ago the recording was made. No problems with freezes watching live TV but, if the live broadcast was paused or rewound and played back, the freezes would occur at the same frequency. Resetting the Hopper (power cord and from the diagnostics menu) a couple of times did not clear the problem.
This morning, while watching live TV, the Hopper froze briefly and went into a reboot loop (tried 2-3 times), eventually displaying a "Hard Drive Failure 311" error and asking for a power cord reset. At that point live TV was OK and system status showed a bad HDD (red X). First time I've ever seen the 311 error.
Did the power cord reset. Hopper came back up OK, HDD did not reformat. Recordings were still intact, but freezes on playback still occurring. The HDD area (field f) of system status was blank just after the reset, but at some point it switched to good (green). I looked at the HDD counters and, except for temps which looked OK, wasn't sure if anything there pointed to a problem.
Am I looking at a developing HDD failure here? That's my best guess. Is the best resolution to replace the Hopper.? Or something else I might do?
I hate to complicate the Hopper problem further, but there's also a problem now on the Joey. I can't see a connection to the Hopper problem, but include it here in case there might be. Recorded events also freeze when played back on the Joey (that's expected). But live TV on the Joey is also freezing in the same way as recordings do. Resetting the Joey does not clear the problem. I wouldn't think that a problem with the Hopper's HDD would affect live broadcasts on the Joey, but maybe so?
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
