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After almost two years of stellar service, my Replay 2020 appears to have given up the ghost, I believe due to brownout issues I've been having lately with my air conditioner.
I came back home tonight to a black screen but the green "power" light on. Soft boots, hard boots, and combinations thereof seem only to result in the first "Please Wait a Few Moments..." dialog. I can't hear the hard drive spinning at all, but the power light is coming on.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PUTTING OFF A UPS/SURGE PROTECTOR: DON'T! I was "just about" to buy one, knowing that my Replay (at $700 when I first got it) was worth more than most of my computer equipment put together. I don't know for sure that the A/C problem did the RTV in, but it has been serious enough to dim half the house and make my Kenwood receiver and CallerTV reset many times when it cycles on (one down side of living in a 70-year-old house with old wiring and no time to fix it).
If this is "lights out" on my unit, I don't know how we'll survive until we can get a 4040 ordered and shipped to us. I don't even know how to watch normal TV anymore...
If anyone has *any* ideas, please reply! I'll call SONIC|blue tomorrow for tech support or an RMA, but it's no longer under warranty, so I don't know what they can do or how much it'll cost me. I'm hoping it may be as simple as the +/- 12VDC portion of the power supply being bad. If the problem is worse and it is gone for good, I just hope that the 4000 series will ship when they said it would or sooner. Funny, I wasn't planning to get one, but the alternative of being without it suddenly justifies the cost.
Update: Left it unplugged for about 30 minutes, plugged it back in, and (low and behond) the hard drive spun up. Another soft boot (first boot played live but wouldn't respond to commands) and I'm back in business. The only thing I can figure is overheating--out weather here has been hot to cold, so the thermostat settings have been all over the place trying to keep up.
This does not change the fact that (a) an electrician will be here this week to fix the problem, (b) that's much cheaper than a new Replay, and (c) I'm still going to invest in another UPS (BTW, got a great little CyberPower 650SL at Circuit City for computer for under $100, will get another for Replay, receiver, and DISH).
I came back home tonight to a black screen but the green "power" light on. Soft boots, hard boots, and combinations thereof seem only to result in the first "Please Wait a Few Moments..." dialog. I can't hear the hard drive spinning at all, but the power light is coming on.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PUTTING OFF A UPS/SURGE PROTECTOR: DON'T! I was "just about" to buy one, knowing that my Replay (at $700 when I first got it) was worth more than most of my computer equipment put together. I don't know for sure that the A/C problem did the RTV in, but it has been serious enough to dim half the house and make my Kenwood receiver and CallerTV reset many times when it cycles on (one down side of living in a 70-year-old house with old wiring and no time to fix it).
If this is "lights out" on my unit, I don't know how we'll survive until we can get a 4040 ordered and shipped to us. I don't even know how to watch normal TV anymore...
If anyone has *any* ideas, please reply! I'll call SONIC|blue tomorrow for tech support or an RMA, but it's no longer under warranty, so I don't know what they can do or how much it'll cost me. I'm hoping it may be as simple as the +/- 12VDC portion of the power supply being bad. If the problem is worse and it is gone for good, I just hope that the 4000 series will ship when they said it would or sooner. Funny, I wasn't planning to get one, but the alternative of being without it suddenly justifies the cost.
Update: Left it unplugged for about 30 minutes, plugged it back in, and (low and behond) the hard drive spun up. Another soft boot (first boot played live but wouldn't respond to commands) and I'm back in business. The only thing I can figure is overheating--out weather here has been hot to cold, so the thermostat settings have been all over the place trying to keep up.
This does not change the fact that (a) an electrician will be here this week to fix the problem, (b) that's much cheaper than a new Replay, and (c) I'm still going to invest in another UPS (BTW, got a great little CyberPower 650SL at Circuit City for computer for under $100, will get another for Replay, receiver, and DISH).