Hello Carol.
This is probably due to a failing hard drive. The hard drives used in
these machines were cheap hitachi drives, i've already had one behaving
strangely. My box wouldn't offer me the option to format or to record. I
have replaced the hard drive in the unit with a better drive made by
seagate, formatted it and have had no further problems, no crashes, etc.
Because the voice runs from the hard drive, if there are any errors on
the drive or if its failing, it can cause you to experience
crashes/freezing. I can replace the drive for you if you wish, please
contact me off list and we can go from there. I'd recommend it to be
honest, because if you do a lot of recording and the drive fails it
would've been pointless you recording all those tv shows to watch later!
all the best,
Mo.
On 07/07/2012 12:52, Carol Pearson wrote:
Hi all,
We have a fairly regular saying at home which is "Amy's on strike".
This simply means that she fails to speak, often after booting up,
when we first go to use her. Of course, we find ways round, sometimes
needing to reboot the box again; but I wonder if anyone else is
finding this problem and if you have a better solution than a bit of
hit and miss and, finally, if you've concluded what's going on and why!
Carol P
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