Help! For a long time SageTV User!

[Ralphjb]

In the past week, or perhaps two, my SageTV setup has become very unstable. I have a R5000 modded Dish VIP211, two HDPVR's and one Silicone Graphics HDHomerun.

All of a sudden, I can't get a clean recording. In the case of the R5000, it would seem that recordings start and stop. The system is producing multiple files for a single program and playback is unwatchable. HDHomerun recordings are highly pixellated and unwatchable, this with 100% signal strength. Of course I have shut down and rebooted everything more than once, but does not seem to matter. Thinking it my be a router issue or a network card issue, but not sure hoe to diagnose. I record to a local drive and to a network drive, and have had problems with both. I have an I7 PC running Windows Vista. This setup has run trouble free for months.

Any suggestions for how to diagnose would be much appreciated.

[Fuzzy]

It may be a harddrive failing. If it's common to all your sources,it sounds like it's failing to write to the drive in a reasonable time, and failing out. It will then restart recording again, which creates the segmented files.

[matt91]

I agree. try running some HD diagnostics and see what you get.