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Panasonic DMR-E85H error U99
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Scan10
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2. June 2010 @ 23:32 |
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Originally posted by BudinMA:
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?
Most cable companies are starting to remote control the video outputs of their new set-top boxes - shutting them off so you can't use external devices such as stand alone recorders. Combine that with the additional information the cable company can get from the box (like your viewing habits and such) - and I don't plan on having one anytime soon; may have to go to DBS.
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handyguy2
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29. June 2010 @ 11:54 |
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Does anyone know how to turn on Closed Captions on the Panasonic e500? I need it when I use component. But I can get them alright using composite.
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scott16
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31. July 2010 @ 21:35 |
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Hey guys I just took out the HDD on my DMR-E85 (b.c I accidentally deleted something).
here's how I was able to get video off of it.
1)I Hooked the HDD up to my PC using an external USB2 HDD box.
2)I Cloned the DMR-E85 Harddrive using Winhex (to a file on my PC's HDD).
3)I used HJSplit to split the cloned image file
(I set it to give me 5GB (5000MB) pieces.
4)I Changed the file extension of the 5GB pieces to end with .VOB
5)I could then view the videos with VLC media player, or even Windows media player.
6)When I found the video that I was looking for
I used MPeg Stream Clip to repair the video.
I Just opened the .VOB file and it asked if I wanted to repair the video (I clicked yes)
and then saved the VOB as an Mpeg.
7)I Edited the video with a Mpeg cutter
8)once I cut the video I used a Joiner to put the pieces of the video together.
The DMR-E85 differs from the DMR-HS2 that I had in that it uses .VOB files instead of .VRO
You can also do just steps 1 and 2 and have a registered copy of ISOBuster
find the .VOB video files (but it won't find deleted files)
but it will tell you all the undeleted files on the hdd and let you save them
and it even tells you the date the files were recorded and the file size too (which is important b.c only large size VOBs are the ones with video while the rest are deleted files and have nothing on them).
I wouldn't suggest anyone do this unless they have a broken DMR-E85,
that won't read the files on the HDD anymore (b.c it's a lot of work otherwise).
And you have to be very careful with the HDD once out of the DMR-E85
(no static or power surge, be careful not to break the HDD).
And make sure the DMR-E85 is the Source drive when Cloning with WinHex
(and make sure you have enough space on your PC's HDD, 300GB or more free space is best.
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brewtoo
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11. August 2010 @ 14:35 |
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OK, ya'll, a problem I have not seen mentioned. About I year ago I replaced the usual suspect capacitors in my E85H power supply. Presto! All was well. One day last week the power went off during a storm. The unit was off at the time, but plugged in. After that I got the dreaded Please Wait message forever and ever. It would turn off but when you turned it back on it would never get past the Please Wait message. I replaced the capacitors again, you know, just in case, cause I see over and over that's always the problem. Not fixed - same problem still. One morning it came on like nothing had ever happened. All was well. I unplugged the power. Oh, no! After I plugged it back in, it went back to the dreaded Please Wait. It occurred to me that the unit had sat near an AC vent overnight and was very cool before it started working. I put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, took it out and plugged it up. It came right up, perfect. It will work perfectly as long as the power is not interrupted. If the power is interrupted, it has to go back in the fridge before it will work. What in the world does anyone make of this??
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Scan10
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11. August 2010 @ 15:28 |
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There are other caps that go bad... take a look for others with swelling ends and/or brown or yellow stuff oozing out...
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LCoop
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11. August 2010 @ 17:28 |
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dunno but sounds like one very smart machine - next it will want a massage too :-)
Originally posted by brewtoo:
OK, ya'll, a problem I have not seen mentioned. About I year ago I replaced the usual suspect capacitors in my E85H power supply. Presto! All was well. One day last week the power went off during a storm. The unit was off at the time, but plugged in. After that I got the dreaded Please Wait message forever and ever. It would turn off but when you turned it back on it would never get past the Please Wait message. I replaced the capacitors again, you know, just in case, cause I see over and over that's always the problem. Not fixed - same problem still. One morning it came on like nothing had ever happened. All was well. I unplugged the power. Oh, no! After I plugged it back in, it went back to the dreaded Please Wait. It occurred to me that the unit had sat near an AC vent overnight and was very cool before it started working. I put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, took it out and plugged it up. It came right up, perfect. It will work perfectly as long as the power is not interrupted. If the power is interrupted, it has to go back in the fridge before it will work. What in the world does anyone make of this??
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15. August 2010 @ 10:33 |
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dksmall
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18. August 2010 @ 23:43 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by kathyr2:
Needed to replace all 4 capacitors after total loss of power.
Just went through the same problem. Had replaced 2 of the caps a few years ago. Started getting "Please Wait", only in my case it would randomly occur while the unit was off! A quick look at the power board and sure enough the other two caps had gone bad. Quick trip to Radio Shack and I'm back in business!! The information in this thread is great!!
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patrickaw
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21. August 2010 @ 00:08 |
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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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patrickaw
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21. August 2010 @ 00:13 |
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Originally posted by patrickaw:
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.
Sorry, my reply to geissler didn't take, but from his post several mos ago (above), I was expressing that I might be interested in purchasing. Geissler, if you're out there and still wanting to sell, email me asking price at patrickacw@aol.com
Thanks!
Patrick
DMR-E95HP (S/N KU4EAxxxxxx, Manu: May 2004)
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conrad51
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24. August 2010 @ 12:34 |
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I have a DMR-E85 since July 2004 and have had no problems, never a U99 message. I gave up on the TV guide within the first year and have mostly dubbed movies and shows off my cable company DVR. A week ago after a power failure, I noticed a "PLEASE WAIT" several times while the unit was off. After it disappeared the unit worked fine. As I use it only 3-4 times a month I decided to unplug the unit so save wear on the hard drive and parts. When I plugged it back in several days later, nothing? no clock or any sign of life. I checked the outlet and cord. I have plenty of movies and recordings I would hate to lose. Anyone have a similar problem and a remedy? I'm not sure where in NY I could get this fixed. Everything electronic today seems mostly disposable. Thanks.
conrad
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vulcanusa
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24. August 2010 @ 12:57 |
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vulcanusa
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24. August 2010 @ 13:04 |
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Conrad51,
As many on this thread have done themselves - or had someone else do for them - in all probability you will need to replace at least a pair of capacitors that have popped on your power supply board - perhaps more. The power supply board is under the hard drive. There are plenty of posts with pictures of what to look for in the last 30 or 40 pages of this thread. Good luck.
P.S. I believe most of us don't regard these machines as expendable. We love them too much - even now that HD and digital are all the rage. :-)
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Scan10
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26. August 2010 @ 07:57 |
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Originally posted by conrad51:
I have a DMR-E85 since July 2004 and have had no problems, never a U99 message. I gave up on the TV guide within the first year and have mostly dubbed movies and shows off my cable company DVR. A week ago after a power failure, I noticed a "PLEASE WAIT" several times while the unit was off. After it disappeared the unit worked fine. As I use it only 3-4 times a month I decided to unplug the unit so save wear on the hard drive and parts. When I plugged it back in several days later, nothing? no clock or any sign of life. I checked the outlet and cord. I have plenty of movies and recordings I would hate to lose. Anyone have a similar problem and a remedy? I'm not sure where in NY I could get this fixed. Everything electronic today seems mostly disposable. Thanks.
Sounds like a power supply failure to me - could be something as simple as a blown fuse or the well known capacitor failure problems that are documented in earlier posts. Either of these problems could be quickly diagnosed and repaired by a decent electronics repair shop.
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pulltech1
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15. September 2010 @ 11:16 |
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I realize that folks want their old Panny to keep on keepin' on. I gave up on mine sometime back, but I still love the concept of recording to the HDD and dubbing to the DVD burner. HTPC has nearly destroyed the market for these devices. I had given up on finding anything to replace my Panny with and was shopping for a Panny with ATSC\QAM tuner when I came across a new product on the market (July, 2010) most likely manufactured by Philips. It's a Magnavox with a huge 320 GB HDD and, if reviewers are to be believed, will do most of what the Panny 85 did. It won't write to DVD-RAM, it has no TV Guide. but the rest is intact, and it has the digital tuner. Walmart sells it and Amazon sells it, also. Not bad price: $227.00.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DPKOKK/ref=oss_product
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Kassel
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26. October 2010 @ 22:44 |
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Originally posted by pulltech1:
I realize that folks want their old Panny to keep on keepin' on. I gave up on mine sometime back, but I still love the concept of recording to the HDD and dubbing to the DVD burner. HTPC has nearly destroyed the market for these devices. I had given up on finding anything to replace my Panny with and was shopping for a Panny with ATSC\QAM tuner when I came across a new product on the market (July, 2010) most likely manufactured by Philips. It's a Magnavox with a huge 320 GB HDD and, if reviewers are to be believed, will do most of what the Panny 85 did. It won't write to DVD-RAM, it has no TV Guide. but the rest is intact, and it has the digital tuner. Walmart sells it and Amazon sells it, also. Not bad price: $227.00.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DPKOKK/ref=oss_product
I would really miss the TV guide, but otherwise this sounds like a good substitute. I now have a u99 error. Am reading here to try and find any reset codes from years ago, heheh. I just did power it up via a computer next to it, but it still shows u99. If I recall correctly, that method did solve my troubles last time. When I returned it to the normal config. it reset everything perfectly, but I doubt it will work now! We shall see. Anyhow, still using the original caps, but will change the four weakest suspects this time, even though they look fine.
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Kassel
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26. October 2010 @ 22:44 |
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Originally posted by pulltech1:
I realize that folks want their old Panny to keep on keepin' on. I gave up on mine sometime back, but I still love the concept of recording to the HDD and dubbing to the DVD burner. HTPC has nearly destroyed the market for these devices. I had given up on finding anything to replace my Panny with and was shopping for a Panny with ATSC\QAM tuner when I came across a new product on the market (July, 2010) most likely manufactured by Philips. It's a Magnavox with a huge 320 GB HDD and, if reviewers are to be believed, will do most of what the Panny 85 did. It won't write to DVD-RAM, it has no TV Guide. but the rest is intact, and it has the digital tuner. Walmart sells it and Amazon sells it, also. Not bad price: $227.00.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DPKOKK/ref=oss_product
I would really miss the TV guide, but otherwise this sounds like a good substitute. I now have a u99 error. Am reading here to try and find any reset codes from years ago, heheh. I just did power it up via a computer next to it, but it still shows u99. If I recall correctly, that method did solve my troubles last time. When I returned it to the normal config. it reset everything perfectly, but I doubt it will work now! We shall see. Anyhow, still using the original caps, but will change the four weakest suspects this time, even though they look fine.
kingkassel@aol.com
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Kassel
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26. October 2010 @ 22:50 |
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Hi. I AM WORKING TO TRY AND RESET AFTER A U99. At this point I am powering out of an old computer but would like to try a few reset button combinations before backing out of that arrangement. Does anyone remember the button combo for a reset? Thanks. Kassel
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laurie123
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17. November 2010 @ 09:35 |
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I have exactly this problem, I want to change one HDD for another, but because the substitute HDD has stuff on it that I want to keep I do not want to do a FORMAT.
I have WinFix but XP does not recognise the new drive so I cannot change the drive ID information, does anyone have any ideas how to get round this please. I have attatched the new drive to my PC by USB and by internal installation with the same problem, XP cannot see the drive, although the System Information shows it as being attached.
KOriginally posted by violetfi:
I have to share with you my excitement about my great success. I'm finally able to switch hard disks back and forth on my Panasonic DMR-E80H and DMR-HS2!!!
On 17. February 2005 rtjoby posted in this thread his way of tricking the firmware under this link in the event that the Panasonic displays UNFORMAT and requests a mandatory formatting of the hard disk. Starting from his findings, I added another step to it and here's what I found:
Whenever I replaced a hard disk in one of my Panasonic DVD Recorders (I have three DMR-E80H and one DMR-HS2), I had to format the hard disk before I could do anything with it. Here is rtjoby's way to trick the firmware to accept a hard disk containing recordings that were done previously with the same unit:
1. Replace the hard disk
2. When requested to format the hard disk, unplug the power cable from the hard disk
3. Push the Enter Button on the remote twice to have the unit start to try to format the hard disk
4. After a few seconds (like 5) either unplug the main power cable from the unit or press the power button for 10-12 seconds
5. When the unit is off connect the hard disk power cable and then the unit main power cable
6. When you turn the unit on, it may work from the new hard disk and show all the information from that new hard disk
Here come now my new findings:
The Panasonic DVD Recorders write also a number, unique per unit, to the hard disk. So the above works that easily only when the disk was last used in the same unit. If the hard disk was used last in another unit of the same model, then the following will do the trick. You will need a hard disk editing program like WinHex:
1. Find the unique number of your unit. On each hard disk the following 10 bytes are relevant:
the 6th byte is 0x53 (S)
the 7th byte is 0x48 (H)
the next 8 bytes represent the unique number
2. Once you know the number for your unit, write the correct bytes to the hard disk you would like to use in that unit (with WinHex)
3. Then do the above steps with unplugging the power and you should get the new hard disk working
One more note: To prove that this technique works, you should actually record just a little bit on the hard disk, because without that you might be able to switch hard disk back and forth without formatting...
I tried all of this with 4 hard disk and it works. I also took out the hard disk of one E80H, backup it up with WinHex, Restored it to a new hard disk with WinHex, changed the unique number for the new unit on the new hard disk, did the unplugging thing, and actually had two units with exactly the same recordings and was able to watch all of them and also add more recordings!!!
I spent hours searching the internet for this solution and couldn't find a success story. So I'm proud to share my findings. May it give some of you hope to prove it.
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vulcanusa
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20. November 2010 @ 14:16 |
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starrig
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20. November 2010 @ 14:52 |
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Has anyone else had trouble with their remotes going bad? I've replaced mine twice at least, and now the newest one is starting to show signs of trouble. (Almost always the fast-forward and reverse buttons start to become unresponsive. They must be the ones I use the most.)
I took an old one apart and discovered that the buttons are basically just carbon-coated disks that press against open connections on a circuit board. After a while, the carbon wears off. I did some googling and found that you can buy fixit kits of carbon paint or silver-based paint. Someone also reported good results just dabbing powered graphite lubricant onto the disks. Anyone here tried it yet?
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yankee10
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20. November 2010 @ 22:01 |
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Originally posted by vulcanusa:
"The Capacitor Plague". Does that sound familiar to anyone? I wonder if this is the actual cause of all of the capacitor problems the DMR-85H's have been plagued with? I believe the most popular presumption up until now is that the capacitors on the power supply board were simply underrated for all operating conditions of the DVR. That might not be the case. I saw a link to this wikipedia page from a recent news article which described how Dell knew years ago that many of the motherboards it sold contained defective capacitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
That Dell article is:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/20/dell-knew-about-faulty-computers-records-show.aspx
Good point. In addition to electrolytics traditionally being the weak link in passive components and the faulty manufacturing that you point to, in recent years there has been a significant increase in counterfeit parts that has the quality assurance folks hopping. It is becoming more and more difficult to determine if you have legitimate manufacturer's parts due to sophisticated labelling. Xrays and experienced examiners have a shot at it. Even buying from legitimate distributers or the manufacturer isn't sufficient due to 'parts laundering' (a term I just made up)--where a purchaser returns a manufacturer's parts but has actually substituted counterfeit parts, thereby getting the manufacturer to put the fake parts back into their own stock. Scary.
By the way, I was probably the first to opine that the capacitors were underrated. I said I would have doubled the WVDC rating per good engineering practice. I don't know that the marginal rating would have caused most of the problems people were seeing--but it increases the likelihood of problems.
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dksmall
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20. November 2010 @ 23:12 |
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Originally posted by starrig:
Has anyone else had trouble with their remotes going bad? I've replaced mine twice at least, and now the newest one is starting to show signs of trouble. (Almost always the fast-forward and reverse buttons start to become unresponsive. They must be the ones I use the most.)
In my case it's the pause button that's wearing out. I haven't taken it apart to inspect it, but your suggestions are interesting.
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starrig
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20. November 2010 @ 23:41 |
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Originally posted by dksmall:
In my case it's the pause button that's wearing out. I haven't taken it apart to inspect it, but your suggestions are interesting.
If you do take it apart, don't try to remove the metal face. I did that, and bent it all up, only to discover that it's just a glued-on faceplate. What you want to do is pry apart the case at a seam in the black edge. It's not easy exactly, but it's a snap-fit.
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dksmall
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22. November 2010 @ 21:49 |
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My faithful DVR is at it again. Today it starting rebooting itself, with "Selfcheck" or "Please wait" displays, twice while recording! I have replaced C1270, C1271, C1260 and C1261 within the last few years (thanks to this forum). There was one other capacitor that looked bad, but I couldn't find a quick replacement at the time. Now I figure I should go after it. It's about twice as tall as the other radial capacitors mentioned above, and slightly smaller in diameter. Does anyone happen to have the specs on this cap so I can get one before I open the unit up again? Thanks!!
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