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Humax Failing - Help!
Dizeee
06-03-2015
Our 5 year old is Humax has always had the skipping and lip synch issues over the years, but now it has developed an epic fail. When you switch it off, onto Standby, it forgets everything. Pages of recording schedules vanish and everything is forgotten. This all started after the box mysteriously seemed to re configure itself, the screen format changed and all the sizing was different which took me ages to sort.

Therefore we leave it on so that it records what we want it to. Can't dare turn it off as takes ages to re schedule everything. We keep our recorded programs list small and delete all watched programs, so space should not be an issue. Do these boxes just self destruct after a few years? I THINK the model is the PVR-9150. It looks a little dated now.

Is there a way round this?
grahamlthompson
06-03-2015
Originally Posted by Dizeee:
“Our 5 year old is Humax has always had the skipping and lip synch issues over the years, but now it has developed an epic fail. When you switch it off, onto Standby, it forgets everything. Pages of recording schedules vanish and everything is forgotten. This all started after the box mysteriously seemed to re configure itself, the screen format changed and all the sizing was different which took me ages to sort.

Therefore we leave it on so that it records what we want it to. Can't dare turn it off as takes ages to re schedule everything. We keep our recorded programs list small and delete all watched programs, so space should not be an issue. Do these boxes just self destruct after a few years? I THINK the model is the PVR-9150. It looks a little dated now.

Is there a way round this?”

It sounds like the NVRAM (non volatile memory - aka Flash Memory)) has failed. If so I doubt it's worth repairing. Time to get a HD pvr ?

You have found the only way I know off (a power cut will of course leave you in the same situation), other than a repair of course.
nvingo
07-03-2015
I've recently seen a forum member post the same or very similar issue with a PVR9150 he manages for relatives. He was advised to do a defaults setting to fully re-initialise the PVR - though whether that fixes it is still pending.
molliepops
07-03-2015
We tried to do the reset to defaults and now have a new machine - yes it went that well
Dizeee
09-03-2015
Hey Mollie - we're in Woking too!

Same symptoms as mine?

Its working ok by leaving it on but I fear at some point a total failure so it looks like a new machine is the way forward. Its served well over 5 years - had loads and loads of use.

Any recommendation on what to replace with?
innes_calan
10-03-2015
Another Humax!
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