Spontaneous reboots when connecting to network

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Ben Hallert wrote:
> I have a 5060 with a 100GB HD, and it's been working great for the last
> 8 months, but the last week, it's started acting up.
>
> It's rebooted spontaneously a few times while recording shows, and
> tonight the guide ran out of shows and I realized that it hadn't
> connected in a while.
>
> Whenever I go into the setup and tell it to connect, it opens a
> connection, sets the clock, verifies that the account is current, then
> the moment it says "Checking for news channels..." it reboots. This is
> through ethernet, btw.
>
> This happens every time I do it. It's cool (heatwise) and I let it sit
> unpowered for a few hours once, no change.
>
> Suggestions?
>

Is the unit connected with wireless?
Network error will cause a Replay to reboot. Check your cables. If the
guide is blank the unit has not connected in quite some time. I would
suspect errors in your DNS server entries. Replays are best set for
fixed IP with a router capable of ip reservation. Reserve the Replay's
fixed ip to its' mac address in the router.

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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:38:01 -0400, Tony D <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>Ben Hallert wrote:
>> I have a 5060 with a 100GB HD, and it's been working great for the last
>> 8 months, but the last week, it's started acting up.
>>
>> It's rebooted spontaneously a few times while recording shows, and
>> tonight the guide ran out of shows and I realized that it hadn't
>> connected in a while.
>>
>> Whenever I go into the setup and tell it to connect, it opens a
>> connection, sets the clock, verifies that the account is current, then
>> the moment it says "Checking for news channels..." it reboots. This is
>> through ethernet, btw.
>>
>> This happens every time I do it. It's cool (heatwise) and I let it sit
>> unpowered for a few hours once, no change.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>
>Is the unit connected with wireless?
>Network error will cause a Replay to reboot. Check your cables. If the
>guide is blank the unit has not connected in quite some time. I would
>suspect errors in your DNS server entries. Replays are best set for
>fixed IP with a router capable of ip reservation. Reserve the Replay's
>fixed ip to its' mac address in the router.

And there's a software solution if your router doesn't support address
reservation. People keep ignoring that.

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Hi guys,

I did the factory reset to defaults, and that seems to have fixed it.

Thanks!

I have a Replay 5xxx and I had the same problem. To fix it, I deleted the channel guide twice and then manually connected to the Replay Service and everything was back the way it was. Here are the steps:

- Type 2 4 3 and then Zones.
- Select option 2 - Clear Channel Guide
- Once the device reboots, repeat the first two steps to delete the channel guide again (gets rid of the backup copy)
- Once the device reboots for the second time, Press Menu -> Setup -> Connect to ReplayTV Service Now

It will take a few minutes but the Channel Guide should be back once it completes.

Hope this helps.