My HDR rebooted itself lastnight. It was recording something on BBC HD and the reboot seemed to coincide exactly with the end of the recording. We were watching another channel at the time.

I checked the folder and the file does not say it's corrupt so a bit puzzled on this.

It is the first time it's happened. I upgraded the hard drive to a 1TB model months ago and that has been fine.

At first I thought a brief power cut but it seems a hell of a coinicidence that it was dead on the hour at the very instant the program must have finished.

I will keep an eye on it and post back if I see it again. I have been very happy with the box so far apart from the lack of response from the box. I keep thinking that the remote isn't working but then it kicks in half an hour after the button press!!!

Anyone else experienced this rebooting?

Yes. I posted this yesterday in response to someone who had had a reboot and corrupt file:
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That happened to me last week.

I've had the Humax PVR since it came out and it has performed a spontaneous reboot about three times until last Saturday.

It then performed a reboot about 20 minutes into DW and although I had the box on to watch something else and got it going again in about a minute the recording that was interrupted was corrupt so I had to wait a few days to watch a repeat.

Then it did the same thing the next day. I wondered if it was something to do with ITV HD as that had recently started - or if my box was going bad but it hasn't happened since. There appears to be a bug that is only triggered in very rare circumstances. I do remember one of the occasions it rebooted as it finished a recording but that was not the case with any of the others.

Interesting. Exactly how mine seemed to fail... Hope it's not dying on me...

Well, that was many months back and it's never failed in exactly the same way again so I don't think it was indicative of a developing problem.

Cool. Fingers crossed for us both. Worth posting in any case.

It’s a strange World in’it, I was reading this post yesterday and thinking to myself that in the 16 month’s I have had my HDR it has never done an unintentional re-boot.

That’s is until last night !

I have the Graham Norton show scheduled via BBC HD to record every week however I generally watch this live and just delete the programme when it’s finished.

Last night just a few seconds before the start of GN and watching live I press the channel down button just to see what the film on BBC 4 was all about.

On doing this the boxed closed down and re-booted and then I carried on watching GN in live mode however the programme failed to start recording and the schedule had put next weeks programme in the schedule only a couple of minutes into this weeks live episode.

I think what made this re-boot happen was me pressing a command on the remote exactly the same time as a recording was starting, so the box throw a wobbler.

You could be onto something. I may have been pressing a button at the moment my recording finished. As I wrote in my first post, my recording was also on BBC HD although I suspect that would be completely irrelevant.

This happened to mine yesterday for the first time in 15 months of use. I was in a different room and only realised that it was happening as my telly also seemed to power cycle. It plays a very annoying tune when I first power it up either cold or from standby. A micro power surge I thought but no it wasn`t. Nothing else in the house was affected. Anything like that always reboots my PC and I was using it at the time.
Also noticed that the telly screen had the option windows to add new channels if required. Almost as though it had done a factory reset but all my recording shedules were still intact.

Strange that your TV was also affected beberex. Hope it's not a sign of things to come. My box was a launch model incidentally. Been fine until then. Hasn't happened since.

Were you recording at the time or had a recording just finished?

Thanks for the reply "Redemption" My favourite film of all time Not too sure about recording at the time as I tend to record Judge Judie at various times of the day depending on when it`s on( so I can whizzie through the adds). Just a funny I`m sure and nothing since. I never normally switch the box to even standby, just leave it alone to do its thing and it always does. I have had a couple of failed recordings lately but I`m sure that was down to the beeb messing the crids up. Notably the last episode of "Five Daughters" which failed at 47 minutes and I didn`t notice when I started playing it. so missed the end.

I also had Five Daughters on series record (not watched yet)and after reading your post I had a quick check of recordings and parts 1 and 2 are 60 mins long with part 3 at 59mins so it’s looking like their ok.

After reporting my box doing it’s first ever reboot earlier in the week I noticed that last Saturday’s Prisoner failed to record.

I have had very few failures to record and this is the first for at least 6 months so I have not got a clue as to what’s going on here.

My fave film too (that and It's a Wonderful Life) hence the name. Thought it was worth pointing out the reason so that nobody thinks I'm in prison!!!

Funnily enough, it was the at the end of the first episode of five daughters on BBC HD when my box rebooted.