Thread: Mediastar Powers 1200s freezing

Box has frozen on me 6 times in the last 3 or 4 hours of watching tv.

I want to reload firmware & plugin but I can not remember which plugin I am using.

I can see which firmware it is but how do I know which plugin it is?

I have tried deleting radio channels & deleted 100 odd tv channels about 1 to 2 weeks ago & it still freezes..

I have tried different firmware & different plugins but have had no luck

Anything else to try?

Thanks

Originally Posted by knowabit1

I have tried deleting radio channels & deleted 100 odd tv channels about 1 to 2 weeks ago & it still freezes..

I have tried different firmware & different plugins but have had no luck

Anything else to try?

Thanks

It will be the EPG downloads you are doing, anymore than about 4x 7 day downloads and the box will become unstable, all down to RAM.

I'm amazed your getting it to even download 25 channels worth, not surprised it's constantly locking up.

I have the Mediastar 8200s and when go to put the box in standby mode it often switches itself completely OFF then hangs loading loader requiring you to turn the power on and off again. Also when in EPG select blue button and update pages a couple of times it completely reboots and hangs at the loading loader again. Its as if it can not hold the complete 7 day epg (austar)

thanks thomo

Cards are ok, did a factory reset, removed a few unwanted channels with the skip function and went to epg and downloaded 40 odd channels and all seems ok on the 8200s. I wont change anything for a while and see what happens

cheers thomo

epg updating and use still causes box to reset completely on average twice per night, very annoying

Originally Posted by h8fg4

epg updating and use still causes box to reset completely on average twice per night, very annoying

As I've said before if you want stability, don't download huge amounts of 7day epg data and the box is fine, annoying yes but the opentv support is really only a hack/unofficial addon anyway.

The box has frozen 3 times in the last week or so.

I have not been downloading the extended epg.

What else can I try?

Cheers

have you got a portable hard drive connected? certain brands will freeze the screen I found. My seagate was one for example...no good...western digital apparently the best

It freezes about 3 times about every 7 days or so without doing an extended epg.

I am using a WD hard dirive.

It has frozen before without the hard drive connected in the past.

I have reset & rescanned channels

Using a bluey, was watching channel go last night & the box froze, I had not changed channel for about 30 to 60 minutes & it froze for some reason

Just installed the following firmware & MCAS & I forgot to save my bloody service data

Knowabit1, how did the new Firmware and MCAS go ?..

Originally Posted by stevens

Knowabit1, how did the new Firmware and MCAS go ?..

It froze once when I was setting it up & the audio sync was out by at least 2 seconds I reckon.

I did a factory reset & have downloaded the 7 day EPG for 6 channels & it is working well since the reset.

There are still 2 red button (interactive) sport channels not working