HD-PVR dead?

[wayner]

After about 3 years my original HD-PVR appears to be dead. It seemed to at first be overheating or something as the recordings would crap out at about 1GB in size even when they should have been much bigger.

Now it appears that the PC won't even recognize the HD-PVR as when I do a power cycle on the HD-PVR it says unrecognized device.

Has anyone else seen similar behaviour?

Note - this was a Rev C2 device that I believe I bought in about July/Aug of 2008.

[jsiemon]

Try replacing the power brick. I had similar problems and thought mine had died, but all it needed was a new power supply. About $15 from Hauppauge.

[wayner]

I have two HD-PVRs so I will try swapping power supplies when I know I am not going to screw up a recording.

I have ordered another one from Newegg - even if it turns out to be ok it is good to have a spare.

[jorton]

I have had one dissappear on me as well and I just had to reinstall the drivers and it came back. No idea why but it worked.

[dstanley]

I have had two power supplies fail on me over the time I have had them. The HD-PVR 'looks' like it has power according to the led lights but it would not function properly. Replacing power supplies has fixed up my problems.

[jorton]

Originally Posted by dstanley

I have had two power supplies fail on me over the time I have had them. The HD-PVR 'looks' like it has power according to the led lights but it would not function properly. Replacing power supplies has fixed up my problems.

Where did you find the replacements?

[wayner]

Wouldn't it be nice if home wiring also included DC plugs as well as AC so we wouldn't need all of these stupid bricks and wall warts?

[david1234]

Originally Posted by wayner

Wouldn't it be nice if home wiring also included DC plugs as well as AC so we wouldn't need all of these stupid bricks and wall warts?

I'd settle for everyone just using a standard 12v wall wart. Last time I counted I've got a dozen different power supplies sitting in my spare equipment drawer, and none of them is the same voltage or plug

[dstanley]

Originally Posted by jorton

Where did you find the replacements?

Hauppauge was kind enough to send me replacements ... One was almost a year ago and one was just a few weeks ago.
I bought an 'equivalent' of eBay but when I got it it was the wrong type ... Te seller replaced it for me so at least now I have a spare.
I could look up the model number if you like ...

[wayner]

After a couple of months I have finally gotten around to trying my new HD-PVR which I have had for a month or so. It looks like the problem is the the PS as when I try the new PS with the old HD-PVR then everything works. But when I switch back to the old PS the device doesn't show up in device manager. I have emailed Hauppauge to ask for a replacement PS.

[wayner]

The power supply on my second HD-PVR died yesterday. Luckily I had a spare one on hand as I had Hauppauge send my two PSes after the first one failed. I cut the old one open and there are (not surprisingly) bulging capacitors.

[thomaszoo]

Just when I think there isn't much more help to be had from the Sage Forums. Last week it appeared that my HD PVR (Rev C1) had died. I had opened up the top and had a fan blowing on it since almost day one.

I had noticed that there were a bunch of wavy lines in the picture when I watched from my cable box a couple of days earlier, but I thought it was just the channel. Then it was still there when I tried watching something and so I checked all the connections and that is when it died. I checked the power supply and it was still putting out 5 volts so I figured it was something in the HD PVR itself. I was just about ready to throw it out when I saw this thread this evening. I tried a different power supply and instant success! I have been using it without any problems with the optical for sound so I was pretty surprised that it had died.

Thanks again for the help.

Wayne

[Sector7g]

Power Supply for me as well