pigolato – 2 hours ago  » 

My 4000T was using the IP address of my router as the DNS server. I changed the DNS addresses to the OpenDNS servers as suggested by Martin Liddle, and so far, after a week, all is well. I have removed the 24hr timer that was rebooting the 4000T every morning at the same time.

Excellent news. Please keep us updated perhaps with another report in a month.

Georgypan – 14 minutes ago  » 

I do happen to have a small indoor aerial which I used when I had a second TV on the top floor so I’ll dig that out and see what happens.

If you are getting 50% signal strength with no aerial there must be a reasonable chance that a decent indoor aerial will be satisfactory.

Could you tell us the signal strength and quality on a BBC channel and on a channel with poor reception (Press red F button, selecting Settings>Channel settings>Signal Test).

Ne5 – 10 hours ago  » 

By programme listings I just mean the programme menu for the next few days or week or whatever.

On a 9150T a copy of the programme guide (what I think you describe as the programme menu) at shutdown is stored on the hard drive and used to initially populate the guide when the box restarts; it is then gradually refreshed from the broadcast data. In the case where the hard drive is formatted then this stored copy of the guide is deleted so the guide will initially be blank and should then repopulate over a few minutes; exactly how fast will depend on which channels the box happens to be tuned to. So if after the format, the guide was initially blank and the gradually returned this is completely normal.

locky – 2 hours ago  » 

like crystaldisk it has a box which is green/yellow/red and displayed warning/yellow. there are a number of single line reports below this and two are in yellow relating as far as i can remember to bad/reallocated sector both about 200.

Let us know the full output from Crystal when it has finished. It might be better to try and squeeze a bit more life out of the hard drive as there is rumoured to be a new Freesat box launching later this year.

Ne5 – 40 minutes ago  » 

Thanks. Its my girlfriends actually so after it did it again for the 2nd time I disabled automatic software updates, and formatted it as it was about 80% full most of which had been on it for ages that would never be watched now.

If it happens again in the near future then it is likely the hard drive is at the end of its life (used up its spare sectors) and then the options are to replace the hard drive or buy a new box.

So its just happened again. This is the 3rd time but this time it didnt delete the recorded index only the programme lists which are now restored the same as a reboot does.

Not sure what you mean by programme lists? Do you mean there were no programmes in the guide or do you mean the list of future scheduled recordings was lost or something else?

We use scart leads not HDMI I dont see what difference that would make but I’ve also just disabled TV software updates too in case this is triggering something, as the screen flashes with a message saying something like loading loader version…(very fast then quickly disappears).

There are no OTA updates for the 9300T so it won’t do any harm and will stop the box booting up in the early hours to check.

Christina2018 – 1 hour ago  » 

Sorry for not understanding but what does the 74% mean?

I think Graham is saying the Which (Consumer Association) testing gave the Aldi battery a test score of 74%.

Geoff Cantrell – 2 hours ago  » 

I may be missing the obvious, but turning our TV and 5000T box we get a message saying we have a weak or no signal, but the remote for the Humax doesn’t select anything other than on or off.

Do you think the weak signal message is coming from the Humax or the TV? May be a silly question, but have you checked that the Tv is using the correct HDMI input for the Humax?