Hi all,

I've checked previous threads and can't find this specific issue being dealt with previously so hope this isn't a duplicated thread.

Long story short is about 3.5 years ago I took the plunge and ditched Sky in favour of FTA/Saorview via a quad tuner Mutant HD2400 and flashed OpenVix 3.2 which gave me all the functionality I wanted:-

- Combined the Free To Air UK channels + the Irish Saorview channels on one 7 day EPG.
- Series record to the built in HDD.
- Easy to use for all in the family.

Having set it up and gotten it stable I left it well alone which means it's still on the last image of the 3.2 branch. My mantra was if it's not broken don't fix it and it's served us very well for 3.5 years.

Unfortunately the PVR function now hangs every time that function is launched. The PVR menu launches fine and the device starts looking for the saved recordings but then the blue "waiting" circle appears and it just hangs. I've tried waiting for hours but it just stays hung and requires a re-boot. I think one of the recordings much have become corrupt but as I can't access the PVR library I can't get in to delete what may be the offending file. Pause/rewind of live TV still works fine so I'm assuming that means the HDD itself is still working unless pause/rewind is somehow handled by built in RAM?

To fix the problem I decided to do a backup then flash the latest 5.3 version of OpenVix from Nov 21st and then intended to restore from the backup hoping that would keep all the settings etc as they are and with a bit of luck PVR would be working again and I wouldn't have lost the 500GB of recordings I have on the HDD.

So the backup -> flash new Vix version -> restore backup plan didn't go very well.

I downloaded and extracted the latest version of Vix and put the extracted HD2400 folder on an 8GB FAT32 formatted USB drive. There are two USB ports on the rear of the box just below the Ethernet port which I do have connected to my router.

One of the USB slots already had a 2GB FAT formatted USB drive containing three folders:-

- Backup
- Crossepg
- Imagebackups

I powered off and plugged out the power cord from the box for 5 minutes and during that time removed the aforementioned USB drive and the Ethernet cable.

I put the Vix Image USB into one of the USB slots and connected the power cable. The Mutant logo immediately presents on the TV screen and I was expecting shortly after that the term "Image Found" would come up at which point I'd press the up button on the front of the box and the new Vix image would flash but nothing happened other than the Mutant logo stayed on the TV screen.

Thinking I must have made an error extracting and/or copying the extracted Vix image onto the USB drive I decided to let the family watch TV whilst I re-downloaded and extracted a new version of the Vix image so I powered off the box again, removed the Vix image USB drive, re-installed the USB drive that has always been there (I don't remember why I left that there but I'm sure there's a good reason!!), re-connected the Ethernet cable (which I assume is needed to update EPG data?) and powered the box back on again expecting the old 3.2 image to power up as normal but instead I just get the Mutant logo on the TV Screen so it seems the box is frozen altogether, it won't recognise and allow a new Vix image to be installed and it won't boot up into the old image that has been working fine, bar the recent issues with the PVR, for 3.5 years.

I tried re-flashing the new image using the front USB port but get the same outcome. The Mutant logo just stays on the screen and every 15 minutes or so the box beeps, the Mutant logo disappears for a second then re-appears and 15 minutes later it repeats. This now happens whether I am trying to re-boot the 3.2 image as normal or whether I'm trying to flash a new image.

Have I managed to brink the box? Is there a way to do a soft or factory reset via a combination of button pushing?

Can't believe I fcuked up something as simple as flashing a new image to the box, it's literally paint by numbers easy to do

Any suggestions? Family looking at me like I've killed a puppy or something :-(