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Sep. 30th, 2005 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litcha week or two ago my replay tv 4k started skipping during playback occasionally
it got so bad I lost the last 20 mintues of the season finale of battlestar galactica
several repeated hard reboots (holding the power button down for 6 seconds) seemed to resolve or at least improve that, but then I started having problems with it detecting incoming signal (through the coax connection)
So I decided to pop the case and blow the dust out. There was much more dust in there than I was expecting.
I'm trying to decide what I want to do, I could try to see if they can refurbish it, get a tivo (they have one for 50$ now after a rebate 13$/mo or 300$ life), go with the timewarner dvr (10$/mo no hardware charge), or drop 150 for a hoppauge tunergard and Windows media center.
Looking down from the front. The brown board on the upper left is power, the green board on the upper right is the for the whole thing. The hard drive is in the lower right.
This is the HD, a maxtor 40G
The guts. The half height board on the left prpendicular to the main board is the ethernet card, the thick white cable curving in from the top to the left is the ethernet cable connecting from the cak to left side of the board. The narrow metal box thing on the upper right is the tv tuner card where the coax plugs in (and what I think is broke).
it got so bad I lost the last 20 mintues of the season finale of battlestar galactica
several repeated hard reboots (holding the power button down for 6 seconds) seemed to resolve or at least improve that, but then I started having problems with it detecting incoming signal (through the coax connection)
So I decided to pop the case and blow the dust out. There was much more dust in there than I was expecting.
I'm trying to decide what I want to do, I could try to see if they can refurbish it, get a tivo (they have one for 50$ now after a rebate 13$/mo or 300$ life), go with the timewarner dvr (10$/mo no hardware charge), or drop 150 for a hoppauge tunergard and Windows media center.
Looking down from the front. The brown board on the upper left is power, the green board on the upper right is the for the whole thing. The hard drive is in the lower right.
This is the HD, a maxtor 40G
The guts. The half height board on the left prpendicular to the main board is the ethernet card, the thick white cable curving in from the top to the left is the ethernet cable connecting from the cak to left side of the board. The narrow metal box thing on the upper right is the tv tuner card where the coax plugs in (and what I think is broke).
