I had a Samsung Sky+ HD box fitted last Saturday and (probably unwisely) immediately upgraded the HDD to a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB, with the programs from my old Sky+ box on, courtesy of Copy+.
It all works well except that when the box powers up from standby to do a recording, it almost always seems to reset itself, ending up on channel 998 and giving programmes as part recorded due to power-cut.
As an electronics engineer, I suspect that the new HDD is taking too much current on start-up, dropping the voltage and resetting the box.
I have temporarily increased the padding at the start to 10 minutes, which avoids losing the start of programmes, but need to sort out whether it is a faulty box, faulty HDD, or just incompatibility, so have a couple of questions:
1. Has anyone else fitted a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB HDD to a Samsung HD box and does it work?
2. Has anyone else fitted another HDD to a Samsung HD box which does work and what was it?
Richard