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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: My dvr is possessed. |
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My Scientific Atlanta 8300 hddvr wakes me up every night with what seems like disk management noises... sounds like it is doing as defragmentation or something. I grab the remote, turn it on and off, and it quits. Then I can go back to sleep. Does anyone know what it is doing and if I can change when it does it? Please help, Sleepless in Cardiff
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JustGreg
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They're BAAAAAAaaaaaack!!! 
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ecrabb
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Location: Utah
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Is it happening at the same time every night - 3am or something? You might want to suck it up and let it do its thing one night and see if that takes care of it. It's probably downloading and installing updates - and you're probably canceling the activity when you intervene (user activity takes priority).
I bet if you let it run its updates, it won't do it again for awhile until next time it needs updates.
SC
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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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I'll try that and see what it does. I thought the software was all on a chip and the drives are just storage.
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Bruce 09
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This harem you keep talking about, what it is it family ? is that them in your sig ?
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drice1234
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I goggle earthed the coordinates in his location to see if it come up in Utah to figure out if it was a real harem. Came up with Cardiff by the Sea in California so it's probably just a hippy commune. 
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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Those are my housemates... 
And the arrow on the Google map points directly to the "Playpen" (thats where the 9" does its thing)
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Bruce 09
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polygamist ? Regardless, I bet they are glad they finally have a 9" in the house 
As far as the noise from the hddvr, quit sleeping on the living room couch won't anyone share a bedroom ?
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jkruger
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The playpen is a shared bedroom/theater.... and yes it is a "community" living situation.
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jkruger
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How do I get the stuff I have recorded out of the dvr and into a dvd burner?
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drice1234
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I went out and bought a cheap direct dvd burner. I just hook up the video out from the DVR to the DVD, start playing the video off of the DVR and press record on the DVD burner.
Dan
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jkruger
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I want to get the hd material from the drive onto hddvd or bluray. I know there is a way to install a bigger drive in the dvr and then just swap it out but can I hook up a burner to the data out connection?
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jkruger
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Can I just hook the SATA output of the hddvr to the SATA connector on my motherboard and feed that to the IDE drive for burning later? would it be easier to hook up an external to the dvr and then swap it to the htpc for burning discs?
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jkruger
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It's still possessed. it does some kind of defragmentation at odd hours, whenever it feels like it. I attached a 1 terabyte external drive to expand the capacity, and it works really well but it still wakes me up in the middle of the night.
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aspec2
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| jkruger wrote: | | How do I get the stuff I have recorded out of the dvr and into a dvd burner? |
The SA is a cable STB. These are required to have an active firewire port. You can find the drivers for your PC and applincations that will allow you to copy the stuff from the SA to the PC. The A site has a tutorial and there are many on the web.
Walt
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perisoft
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| Quote: | | My dvr is posessed. |
Actually, assuming it's a standard agreement with the cable company, it's probably rented.
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AnalogRocks
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| perisoft wrote: | | Quote: | | My dvr is posessed. |
Actually, assuming it's a standard agreement with the cable company, it's probably rented. |
Don't forget to pay the cable bill or it'll be RE-posessed 
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jkruger
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| aspec2 wrote: | | jkruger wrote: | | How do I get the stuff I have recorded out of the dvr and into a dvd burner? |
The SA is a cable STB. These are required to have an active firewire port. You can find the drivers for your PC and applincations that will allow you to copy the stuff from the SA to the PC. The A site has a tutorial and there are many on the web.
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The firewire port is disabled on my STB. How do I turn it back on?
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aspec2
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| jkruger wrote: | | aspec2 wrote: | | jkruger wrote: | | How do I get the stuff I have recorded out of the dvr and into a dvd burner? |
The SA is a cable STB. These are required to have an active firewire port. You can find the drivers for your PC and applincations that will allow you to copy the stuff from the SA to the PC. The A site has a tutorial and there are many on the web.
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The firewire port is disabled on my STB. How do I turn it back on? |
It is the law. Tell your provider that it MUST be active.
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jkruger
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Where do I find the law that states that? Is that FCC?
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