Back about my sister's EH75V. (It figures that the non-tech one would get the wonky DVR.) As expected, she has quickly adapted to using it rather than a VCR (got it in late July). But yesterday it went wonky.

According to her, it is set to set clock manually and DST is off. She doesn't use the TGOS - sets recordings manually and sets the satellite box to the channel manually.

Yesterday she discovered it had failed to record one of her "standing" programs, and when she went in to look, saw the clock had reset itself to something like April 10 2003. She reset the clock manually, and it apparently correctly recorded something early this a.m.

Tonight she called to tell me that, once again, the DVR had reset its clock to something bizarre.

It isn't like my typical gradual slipping/speeding of a minute or so over time, but random jumps.

Is this a common issue? I couldn't find a reference to it in my searches here. Any suggestions of what could be causing it? I thought and dismissed electrical power fluctuations, because that would likely reset the clock to some standard time always - plus none of the other electronic devices on that circuit seem to be resetting.

Any suggestions to try to fix the issue? (Other than the channel up/down button to reset and work from there)

Only other quirk I can think of - the day we set it up, after playing a VHS tape and hitting stop, the machine turned off. And when it was turned on again, the Drive Select was set to the SD Card, if I recall.

It seems that you have eliminated all of the possible causes except for having a defective EH75. I doubt that this is a "common issue". If it is still under warranty, see about getting them to fix it. It might be easier to just buy another DVD recorder to do the timed recordings and use the EH75 for editing.

Dave

Back about my sister's EH75V. (It figures that the non-tech one would get the wonky DVR.) As expected, she has quickly adapted to using it rather than a VCR (got it in late July). But yesterday it went wonky.

According to her, it is set to set clock manually and DST is off. She doesn't use the TGOS - sets recordings manually and sets the satellite box to the channel manually.

Yesterday she discovered it had failed to record one of her "standing" programs, and when she went in to look, saw the clock had reset itself to something like April 10 2003. She reset the clock manually, and it apparently correctly recorded something early this a.m.
Some wild and crazy things to try before sending it in for repair:

1. Reset the machine (ch up/dwn buttons on the unit).

2. Set clock manually.

3. Turn DST off.

4. Set up TVGOS. Don't have to use it but not setting it up could cause clock/timing problems.

5. Set a timer program for sometime in 2010.

Some of these worked in various and different circumstances, and #5 was a remedy that worked when people were disabling their TVGOS by using the Eureka! method (phony Canadian zip code).

Yes, I would try those things first. It could just be a problem with the station sending the clock data.

You could even try calling that (usually PBS) station and ask them to check their system.

This is a long shot, but it could even be the satellite tuner that's sending something that's screwing it up.

I think there was a thread some time ago where someone observed that even if you selected "manually set the clock," the recorder could still receive and process time information, especially aberant or in some way, incorrect or corrupted time information. This could make your machine's clock become very unstabe and unreliable.

Does any one else remember this discussion?