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Panasonic DMR-E85H error U99
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stewvedem
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15. February 2010 @ 18:49 |
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thanks vulcan
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dssidnt
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15. February 2010 @ 18:52 |
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Originally posted by dssidnt:
My dvr just stays on PLEASE WAIT. I can only Lock and Unlock, but cannot eject.
Seems completely frozen. Cannot Power cycle therefore, cannot reset or enter the system mode.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
James Mudrak
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BudinMA
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16. February 2010 @ 09:51 |
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Wow, seems like a lot of "please wait" problems happening all of a sudden. I have good news to report, although I still don't have my machine back. When I brought it back to Best Buy for servicing I printed out the capacitor replacement section from this forum and also told them that I did not want the hard drive reformated. About a week ago I got a call from the technician who said he had replaced the capacitors and didn't touch the hard drive.
Now I'm just waiting for the machine to come back to my local Best Buy Store.
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vulcanusa
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16. February 2010 @ 10:07 |
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dssidnt,
Again, you are probably experiencing a problem with a pair of capacitors on your power supply board. The power supply board is under the hard drive. If you see caps whose tops have burst and ejected a brownish or orange gunk, or if the caps are merely bulging upward, then that is your problem. However, my understanding is that some caps can still be bad without any outward visual evidence. Some on this thread have referred to caps "drying out". Mine had very obviously burst just as pictures on page 78 posted by IAMX66 illustrate. In my case, it was the pair at locations C1260 and C1261. Good luck.
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dssidnt
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17. February 2010 @ 10:07 |
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vulcanusa, thank you very much. I read through a lot of this forum and I think your suggestion is what I need to do. Do you happen to have a preferred online electronics store?
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scott16
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17. February 2010 @ 10:28 |
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If you can't find the parts at your local Radio Shack.
Mouser is a good Store for electronic parts.:
http://www.mouser.com/
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vulcanusa
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17. February 2010 @ 10:56 |
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dssidnt,
I did look at ordering caps on-line, but I believe some sites ran around $4.00 to $5.00 each - which is quite a lot for these caps. I actually have 4 DMR-E85Hs, but only presently use 3. I wanted enough spare caps to replace 4 per machine since they appear to pop in pairs.
There is an electronics store here in San Antonio (i.e. Intertex Electronics) that sells discrete parts retail like caps. They were 90 cents or so each, but in bulk (i.e. 16 in my case) they were reduced to 72 cents or so each. I drove to that store (30-40 minutes round trip) since I wanted to fix my machine ASAP. You may visit http://www.intertexelectronics.com/ if you like. The prices posted on-line appear to be the same as those in the store, but I would imagine shipping and handling will dominate the actual price of the components unless you're ordering in bulk.
As I reported in my earlier post, the caps at C1260 and C1261 are 10v, 680 uf, but Intertex Electronics only had 16v, 680 uf. 16v, 680 uf happens to be the rating of the other pair of caps that commonly pop. Substituting the 16v caps for the 10v caps that popped in my case is fine.
Radio Shack did not have them.
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scott16
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17. February 2010 @ 11:07 |
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Mouser http://www.mouser.com/ has them for about 40 cents each
But again the shipping probably will cost more than the capacitors themselves.
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Kassel
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18. February 2010 @ 22:53 |
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Dssidnt, unless you see evidence of damage to the capacitors, I probably would not rush into replacing them. Read these threads and you will see other easier options to try first. Personally, I probably would plug the powersupply line from a nearby computer's disk drive into the dmr e85 first. IF you turn on the computer and the e85 at the same time, the hard drive will get power fed from the computer's power supply. When I did this, it worked fine for me. Mine is probably seven or eight years old, I am still using the original capacitors.
kingkassel@aol.com
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Kassel
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18. February 2010 @ 22:55 |
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[color=red]And dissidnt, I only had to do that power borrowing once. The system rebooted after that when I went back to the original configuration.[/color]
kingkassel@aol.com
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BudinMA
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24. February 2010 @ 08:46 |
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Well I got my machine back and they DIDN't format the hard drive, which is a good thing. I even had the programs that were scheduled sill in the schedule screen.
However, since I brought it in (after getting a new HD TV) I got a new cable box so I could get the HD channels on the TV. The cable box doesn't have the "cable out" coaxial plug so I had to do the input to the Panasonic via the L3 plug. Unfotunately, I am now not getting any of the channel line ups for the TVGOS. During the set up screen I got it to work so it changes the cable box however, no channel listings, I still have the channel lineup from when I first disconnected it a months ago, it didn't reset during the repair.
I guess the question now is whether I should do a soft or hard reset of the machine to possible clear out all the data in the TVGOS and see if that populates the TVG or whether to just just live with the channel lineup but no channel listings since I would be able to at least use it like a VCR.
Any suggestions?
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luvshisex
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28. February 2010 @ 14:05 |
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Yeah. A splitter is what, $4? Split your coax before the cable box. You will have the coax on one input and the component on another (for recording anything that you can't get from the raw coax - digital channels).
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BudinMA
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1. March 2010 @ 07:53 |
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Originally posted by luvshisex:
Yeah. A splitter is what, $4? Split your coax before the cable box. You will have the coax on one input and the component on another (for recording anything that you can't get from the raw coax - digital channels).
I had thought about that but I wondered how to nativigate between the two. Right now I can use the Panasonic like a VCR since it controls the cable box so I can set the channels. But if I do the splitter how do I set up the Panasonic since I wouldn't be able to get any of the pay channels through the coaxial? Is there some way to set the recording so that it automatically records from the component video?
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vulcanusa
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1. March 2010 @ 11:06 |
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BudinMA
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1. March 2010 @ 12:46 |
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Originally posted by vulcanusa:
Component video is output only.
Yes, I assumed I would have two inputs into the Panasonic, one from the cable coming into the house and the other from the cable box into the panasonic so I can record the pay channels. I have the component video on the panasonic going into the HDTV.
My question was how do I switch back and forth from the coxial to the cable box to record. Will I have to actually switch the input on the panasonic to record the pay channels?
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vulcanusa
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2. March 2010 @ 10:03 |
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When setting up a timer recording manually, after you enter the date and time to start/stop, navigate to the channel setting line. Type a channel number using the remote control's number keys or press the remote's dubbing (i.e. blue) button to iterate through L1/L2/L3.
This is explained on page 20 of the manual.
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bg98012
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17. April 2010 @ 16:22 |
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Hi again,
Has anybody figured out a way to make the Panny DMR-E85 list the TVGOS channels in numerical (or any) order without using the tedious channel editor. It seems every time that the TVGOS resets (select your lineup from the list etc) the channels are scrambled and I again need to spend an hour moving channels around and turning them on/off etc. Maybe this has already been discussed?
Also: anybody know if the Panny is now receiving TVGOS in Seattle/Comcast digital without a set-top cable box? It would be nice if I didn't have to pay Comcast every month (box rental fee) fo the privilige of getting TVGOS to my Panny.
Thx
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starrig
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18. April 2010 @ 01:35 |
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As far as I know, the only way to rearrange the channels is manually, with the channel editor. That's one of the reasons I'd rather do almost anything but reset the machine.
If users in the Boston area noticed a recent, brief outage of the TVGOS data, it was due to a hardware failure at Comcast. When I contacted a technical guy at Comcast, he checked on the problem that same day and corrected it. (Someone had forgotten to reenable the analog carrier channel after replacing the kacked hardware.) I mention this because I think with all the problems people have had, it's worth noting that there are people at Comcast who care about delivering good service.
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geissler
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19. April 2010 @ 01:20 |
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I have a DMR-E85 that I am hardly using anymore. It works great. I had the capacitors changed a couple years ago. Anyone need one/extra I will sell mine.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. April 2010 @ 01:21
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dssidnt
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19. April 2010 @ 07:58 |
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Originally posted by geissler:
I have a DMR-E85 that I am hardly using anymore. It works great. I had the capacitors changed a couple years ago. Anyone need one/extra I will sell mine.
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I might be interested, If I may ask, what is manufacturing date and what are you thinking in terms of cost?
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starrig
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19. April 2010 @ 13:19 |
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Originally posted by dssidnt:
Originally posted by geissler:
I have a DMR-E85 that I am hardly using anymore. It works great. I had the capacitors changed a couple years ago. Anyone need one/extra I will sell mine.
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I might be interested, If I may ask, what is manufacturing date and what are you thinking in terms of cost?
I sent you a Private Message with the same question.
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scustalow
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20. April 2010 @ 18:38 |
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I am very interested
Originally posted by geissler:
I have a DMR-E85 that I am hardly using anymore. It works great. I had the capacitors changed a couple years ago. Anyone need one/extra I will sell mine.
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dksmall
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20. April 2010 @ 20:14 |
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Originally posted by bg98012:
Hi again,
Has anybody figured out a way to make the Panny DMR-E85 list the TVGOS channels in numerical (or any) order without using the tedious channel editor. It seems every time that the TVGOS resets (select your lineup from the list etc) the channels are scrambled and I again need to spend an hour moving channels around and turning them on/off etc. Maybe this has already been discussed?
Also: anybody know if the Panny is now receiving TVGOS in Seattle/Comcast digital without a set-top cable box? It would be nice if I didn't have to pay Comcast every month (box rental fee) fo the privilige of getting TVGOS to my Panny.
Thx
It doesn't help sorting, but you can get to any channel in the guide by typing in the channel numbers. I find that helpful rather then going page by page
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bg98012
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23. April 2010 @ 15:08 |
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dksmall--Thanks, but I knew that. It is convenient to be able to browse the channels numerically.
Now, since I re-ordered the channels 1 week ago, I have no listings in Seattle/Comcast.
Anybody else lose listings in Seattle/Comcast?
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handyguy2
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2. June 2010 @ 18:44 |
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Hi, can someone give me some suggestions on using my Panny with a plasma? I have basic cable on RF. I was gonna connect the panny with component, but not sure what do with with getting HD programs from an antenna. Should I connect an HD antenna to the RF of the TV? Are my recordings on my Panny going to display as SD on my TV? thx
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