The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.

On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:54:35 PM UTC+1, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.

My Humax Foxsat PVR is starting to have occasional picture problems - break-up, stuttering, missing a few seconds of a recording, etc. I think it will need a new hard drive at some point, but perhaps I will try giving the insides a good clean first ...
Simon.

On 29/08/2015 15:02, sm_jamieson wrote:
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:54:35 PM UTC+1, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.

My Humax Foxsat PVR is starting to have occasional picture problems - break-up, stuttering, missing a few seconds of a recording, etc. I think it will need a new hard drive at some point, but perhaps I will try giving the insides a good clean first ...
Simon.


Mine had a spell of that before it failed altogether. It looks like a
standard 160 GB Seagate IDE drive in mine.

On 29/08/2015 16:37, newshound wrote:
On 29/08/2015 15:02, sm_jamieson wrote:

My Humax Foxsat PVR is starting to have occasional picture problems -
break-up, stuttering, missing a few seconds of a recording, etc. I
think it will need a new hard drive at some point, but perhaps I will
try giving the insides a good clean first ...
Simon.


Mine had a spell of that before it failed altogether. It looks like a
standard 160 GB Seagate IDE drive in mine.

Our Humax *Freeview* Fox T2 boxes have Seagate Pipeline 1GB drives
installed. One has just failed so I've replaced it with a 2TB Pipeline
from Ebuyer. Anyone thinking of doing the same should think twice before
buying one from Amazon. At least two drives that were sent out were
built in 2013 and, without opening the packaging, looked very second
hand: think dust, water marks and dents!

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On 29/08/2015 18:10, F wrote:

Our Humax *Freeview* Fox T2 boxes have Seagate Pipeline 1GB drives
installed. One has just failed so I've replaced it with a 2TB Pipeline
from Ebuyer. Anyone thinking of doing the same should think twice before
buying one from Amazon. At least two drives that were sent out were
built in 2013 and, without opening the packaging, looked very second
hand: think dust, water marks and dents!

Was this Amazon or a market place seller?

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On 31/08/2015 19:09, GB wrote:
On 29/08/2015 18:10, F wrote:

Our Humax *Freeview* Fox T2 boxes have Seagate Pipeline 1GB drives
installed. One has just failed so I've replaced it with a 2TB Pipeline
from Ebuyer. Anyone thinking of doing the same should think twice before
buying one from Amazon. At least two drives that were sent out were
built in 2013 and, without opening the packaging, looked very second
hand: think dust, water marks and dents!

Was this Amazon or a market place seller?

Marketplace. And I've reverted to my previous practice of never, never,
never, ever buying from Marketplace.

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On Saturday, 29 August 2015 16:37:33 UTC+1, newshound wrote:

Mine had a spell of that before it failed altogether. It looks like a
standard 160 GB Seagate IDE drive in mine.

They are normally 'consumer electronics' versions of drives compared to those that you would find in a PC. The main difference is a focus on continuous streaming ability rather than error detection/correction but other factors such as noise and heat can also vary.

Mathew

sm_jamieson posted
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:54:35 PM UTC+1, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.

My Humax Foxsat PVR is starting to have occasional picture problems -
break-up, stuttering, missing a few seconds of a recording, etc.

I've been getting the stuttering thing since not long after I bought it
four years ago. It jumps about 30 seconds at a time - not often but
enough to be irritating. The recorded material seems to be there in that
you can slo-mo through it - but if you try to play it normal speed, it
jumps at the same point every time.

My guess was that the disk needed defragging, but there is no way of
doing that provided in firmware. It'll be nice if it's just dust


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newshound wrote:

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs.

My IT man has a bigass compressor in the back of his van. He takes the
PCs out into the yard and blasts the **** out of them.

On a related topic I just used the pressure washer to clean all all the
debris from the ivy (etc) on a retaining wall, having given it a
haircut. Never seen so much ****e. A lot of it landed on the roof of a
caravan I unwillingly store for my son-in-law, which is good.

Bill

Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:56:42 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

newshound wrote:

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs.
My IT man has a bigass compressor in the back of his van. He takes the
PCs out into the yard and blasts the **** out of them.

On a related topic I just used the pressure washer to clean all all the
debris from the ivy (etc) on a retaining wall, having given it a
haircut. Never seen so much ****e. A lot of it landed on the roof of a
caravan I unwillingly store for my son-in-law, which is good.

Bill

A neighbour stripped a lot of ivy off a retaining wall. The wall has
since collapsed. Better get your s-i-l to move his caravan.


No, bugger him. if it falls it serves the ****er right.

Bill

On 29/08/2015 7:52 PM, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:56:42 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

newshound wrote:

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs.

My IT man has a bigass compressor in the back of his van. He takes the
PCs out into the yard and blasts the **** out of them.

On a related topic I just used the pressure washer to clean all all the
debris from the ivy (etc) on a retaining wall, having given it a
haircut. Never seen so much ****e. A lot of it landed on the roof of a
caravan I unwillingly store for my son-in-law, which is good.

Bill

A neighbour stripped a lot of ivy off a retaining wall. The wall has
since collapsed. Better get your s-i-l to move his caravan.



I know this feeling well.

As roofer, may years back, I began a strip & reslate on an end
terrace. Covering the whole of the gable AND halfway across the rear of
the roof, was an Ivy. It entangled itself through out the timbers and
encapsulated the gutter. It was a damn nuisance.

In order to strip to the edge of the gable, we began to roll up the
Ivy. The 'tendrils' were in the hundreds. As it approached the last 6ft
to the edge, the branches were approaching 1.5 inches thick and the
amount of cuts we had to make in order to roll it was painstaking. So,
you can imagine how glad I was to get the roll to the very edge and
watch it disappear over the side.

However, I did not know that it had wound itself into the brick work!
It brought the whole outer skin down save for a small section towards
the front of the building.

Now, when I see these beautifully clad houses, I wonder if they
realise the damage it's doing to their property?

It was a lesson learned, for me.


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On 29/08/2015 14:54, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.


Sounds like you keep a bird in the house, caged type.The parrot is
notorious for dust off its skin and plumage.
Don't forget your lungs.

On 01/09/2015 19:47, critcher wrote:
On 29/08/2015 14:54, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.


Sounds like you keep a bird in the house, caged type.The parrot is
notorious for dust off its skin and plumage.
Don't forget your lungs.

Nope. Have dogs, though, and it's in the room with the woodburner which
spreads very fine ash everywhere when it is emptied.

On 29/08/2015 14:54, newshound wrote:
The Humax started to behave erratically and doing a full retune and
reformat didn't help (it is running the latest firmware).

Whipped the lid off to wiggle the connectors with little real hope of
fixing it, to find an amazing amount of dust inside, not just the
accumulations associated with the fan and heat sinks that you might
expect, but a uniform layer of very fine dust over the PCBs. It looked
like a heavy snowfall, the locations of the surface mount components
were barely visible with just the capacitors poking through the surface.

Ten minutes with the cordless Animal (yes I know about static but it was
dead otherwise), and to my surprise and pleasure it worked perfectly
when reassembled.

In fact the video image is also a bit sharper, so it wasn't only the
logic circuits which had been affected.

Which Humax model?
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