jeallen01
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I was walking past the covered trolley park this afternoon and saw "something" in the litter bin - walked a couple more steps and then went back to see what it was = a Sky+ HD DRX 895C 2TB box in apparently good nick, so I "nicked" it from the bin on the basis that, at worst, it could be a source of spares for the one we use, and/or the two old boxes in the cupboard!
At home, it booted up after several minutes as normal but continually kept telling me that it was "Still initialising" . Did a bit of digging on the net, and found mentioned that the box can do this if the Planner is totally full up, and the only way to clear that is a full factory reset.
Did that from the installers menu, let the box boot back up again - and after quite a lot of "flickering" on the TV guide, it settled down, both Tuners 1 and 2 are working and it is now showing Film4 on Channel 315!!!
So the only thing that might be faulty is the disk, but the box tells me that the card in the slot is the "wrong card for the box" and so I can't try recording until I pair our existing SKY+HD card with it - maybe tomorrow afternoon!
Seems like a "result"
At home, it booted up after several minutes as normal but continually kept telling me that it was "Still initialising" . Did a bit of digging on the net, and found mentioned that the box can do this if the Planner is totally full up, and the only way to clear that is a full factory reset.
Did that from the installers menu, let the box boot back up again - and after quite a lot of "flickering" on the TV guide, it settled down, both Tuners 1 and 2 are working and it is now showing Film4 on Channel 315!!!
So the only thing that might be faulty is the disk, but the box tells me that the card in the slot is the "wrong card for the box" and so I can't try recording until I pair our existing SKY+HD card with it - maybe tomorrow afternoon!
Seems like a "result"
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