Sky DRX895W Box starting to slow down

jones

Folks,

I've a 2TB DRX895-W sky box (have it about 2/3 years approx. I've noticed lately that the box seems "slower" and a little less repsonsive. I get random messages about not being able to pause live tv at times but when I check the connection settings everything is perfect. Then it starts working again.

Has anyone any experience of the same happening?

steveon

jones wrote: »

Folks,

I've a 2TB DRX895-W sky box (have it about 2/3 years approx. I've noticed lately that the box seems "slower" and a little less repsonsive. I get random messages about not being able to pause live tv at times but when I check the connection settings everything is perfect. Then it starts working again.

Has anyone any experience of the same happening?

Check how much space you have left on the hard drive, if full remove recordings you no longer need. Also unplug the box for a few minutes often helps clear the main cpu...

jones

steveon wrote: »

Check how much space you have left on the hard drive, if full remove recordings you no longer need. Also unplug the box for a few minutes often helps clear the main cpu...

Thanks for the reply. I've about 40-45% space left on the HDD and have done system rebuild etc. I do want to do a full system reset but I've a few things I want to watch on the planner first

pegasus1

jones wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. I've about 40-45% space left on the HDD and have done system rebuild etc. I do want to do a full system reset but I've a few things I want to watch on the planner first

There is a new software update being rolled out at the moment R013, our box also 2 Tb is also acting up, locking up losing Series links etc..hopefully the new update will sort it out when it d/l's to our box...we have about 68% space left...

jones

pegasus1 wrote:

There is a new software update being rolled out at the moment R013, our box also 2 Tb is also acting up, locking up losing Series links etc..hopefully the new update will sort it out when it d/l's to our box...we have about 68% space left...

Yeah I keep checking for the new r013 update but it seems to be taking longer than usual to get to me. Plus you can't force download it yet which is a bit of a pain

pegasus1

jones wrote: »

Yeah I keep checking for the new r013 update but it seems to be taking longer than usual to get to me. Plus you can't force download it yet which is a bit of a pain

They had to patch the software mid rollout so the rollout started allover again....Plus they are doing it slower than the last ones....

notahappycamper

Yeah, I see there have been 2 big fix updates since the main R13 update, with the latest one been released yesterday. It can take up to 8 weeks to get them and they are not on the DR stream yet.

jones

I noticed that yesterday as well. I usually go on and check the status of updates. Its unusual for 2 big fixes for an update so i'm assuming they ran into fairly big issues with R13

pegasus1

so now we will have crappy software for the next few months rarther than getting R13 in the next couple of weeks...damn you sky...damn you..get it bug free in the first place :mad:

jones

Just to update: i force downloaded the R13 software and box seems to be functioning normally again. Seems to of been a blip