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As far as I know, a Cox update can’t affect a cable box that's unplugged. So, if recorded programs are stored locally on your DVR hard drive and since you had recordings when the box was unplugged, then the problem has to be in the boot process, whether it’s done manually or by the nightly auto-boot. For practical purposes, your hard drive recordings are about as permanent as data in RAM if you lose everything when the DVR is re-booted. My suggestion would be to swap out the box. It’s not like you’re going to lose any recordings by replacing it.
Before you do that, you could try contacting Cox and see if they can push out an update that might fix the boot problem. But, you really have nothing to gain from doing that other than saving yourself a trip to a Cox store.
Yes, I do believe that it has something to do with the auto boot over night, and maybe a failing hard drive.
- Bruce3 years agoHonored Contributor III
failing hard drive
I'll assume the OS and scheduling program aren't on the HD. If it's successfully rebooting and scheduling, the software must be somewhere else, such as on a chip.
However, a failing drive, controller or heads would have been symptomatic...not just ta-da.
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