I got my new receiver yesterday, everything when smoother than i thought and everything is working again. Today i opened the old unit and hooked the hard drive up my pc and the hard drive has in fact died as it wouldn't detect in the bios and when i ran it in autodetect mode it gave a hard disk...

Ive tried everything short of opening the unit and pulling the smart card, I know what you saying ignition but before i recorded the program i had 1:23 min left it was like that for about a week or two and i figured 25 mins or so wouldnt hurt it as its been down to like 10 mins or so before...

Yea your right about the hard reset, i just held the button in for bout 15-20 secs, i did try unplugging it a couple times but again only for bout 20-30 secs so ill try that, actually the (well my) 522 dosent even have a smart card, so ill try unplugging the inputs and pluggin them back in. On a...

Ive had my 522 for exactly 1 month 17 days today,anyways i ended up recording a program about 6-8 hours ago and by the time it was finished i noticed my dvr had in fact locked up and wont do anything wont change channels,wont let me access the menu,wont let me even enter the dvr area,wont give...