Re: Anybody's machine working most of time?



Here are two ideas that may or may not help
1. Be sure you do not have a series scheduled to be recorded.
2 Be sure you do not have your system set to automatically do a defrag,
virus scan, spyware check or any other operation at the same time each day.
unless the time is such that you know you won't be using the system.

"Joe Horton" <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eJm$E0aSFHA.2132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Does anyone's machine just work all the time? My Tivo never crashed, hung
> up, or failed to record anything - and I'm always fighting with my new
> MCE.
> It's super cool when it works - but it seems every day it's slowly getting
> a
> bit worse. Last night while watching a DVD, the hard drive light went
> nuts
> and the DVD started playing choppy and freezing. It checked everything I
> could think of.
>
> I have a new Gateway - should I have bought something else - or do most of
> you have issues too?
>
>


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