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exdishnet

11-29-2006, 04:28 PM

Hi, my old Hughes 40gig has developed a freeze/stutter problem, but it's only on one tuner. (tuner 2, specifically). When I switched in a different machine, everything was fine on both tuners, so the problem is definitely in the box, not a wiring or dish issue. Everything I've read about freeze/stutter problems suggests it's almost always the hard drive, but does anybody have any experience with this sort of problem? Is it still likely to be hard-drive related even though only one tuner is involved? Thanks!

ssheffield

11-29-2006, 04:31 PM

My Hughes did that, it was tuner 2 that was faulty. No way to fix it either.

ltlblkegl

11-29-2006, 05:56 PM

I have had my unit for 2 years now, and it just started freezing and stuttering. As well as my to do list disappearing and programs under search by title are not showing up. From what I have read I believe you are right about this being a software bug, being downloaded to the systems. Is there any way we can stop this???? I had no problems until I started ordering movies from paper view with the remote. Please help as Direct TV will not!!!

Dkerr24

11-30-2006, 12:55 AM

ttodd1

11-30-2006, 07:04 AM

From what I have read I believe you are right about this being a software bug, being downloaded to the systems.

Who said it was a software bug? It sounds like a failing drive like Dkerr24 said. The only way to fix that is to replace the drive.

exdishnet

11-30-2006, 10:15 AM

Hi, the last few answers here have been not been to the OP (my) question -- anybody have any experience with a one-tuner stutter as described in my opening post? Or does anybody have any theories as to how a drive problem could affect just one tuner?

Thank you, much appreciated.

ping

11-30-2006, 11:14 AM

I had this, and there are dozens of others here and there. It has been positively identified as a problem with the second tuner (not software, not hard drive).

Some have had success by not using the S-Video connection, believe it or not (some sort of short between that connection and the second tuner?) I haven't had a chance to try this on my own (currently inactive) unit.

sfltivo

12-01-2006, 07:58 AM

The original post sounds more like a tuner problem but I thought I share my headache in case anyone else out there runs across it.

I experienced the stutter/freeze problem on one of my HDVR2's. The first thing I did was to swap it with one of the bedroom units and it worked for a while but then, same problem. So I changed feed cables, hard drives, multiswitches, power sources, and whatever else I could think of but still, the problem returned. Finally I tracked it down to the S-Video connection (and some stupidity on my part).

It turns out that during each step of the process I wasn't immediately reconnecting the S-Video cable so a lot of my original diagnosis was wrong. Finally after fooling with it for several weeks, I realized what was happening. When I disconnect the S-Video cable from my Yamaha RX-Z1, the problem goes away. I further discovered that it only happens when the Yamaha is turned off. So clearly there's some interaction between one (or possibly both) of the tuners and the S-Video connection as the previous poster mentioned.

The lesson for me was to be more careful when diagnosing performance problems like this.

Good luck!

blksnake

01-14-2007, 05:10 PM

Using the HDVR2 S-Video output definitely caused problems for me. The picture quality instantly improved once I disconnected the S-Video output and switched to the composite output.