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#228595 - 27/07/2004 01:31 Failed to Set Silent Search Help
Tony
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Registered: 25/07/2004
Posts: 2
I have the HSX-109 (may be the only model, but I really don't know). Worked for two years and then over the weekend it said, while loading, "Failed to Set Silent Search". Then, it says "Player Starting" and freezes. Any suggestions?

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#228596 - 27/07/2004 02:19 Re: Failed to Set Silent Search Help [Re: Tony]
The Central Guy
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Registered: 18/03/2002
Posts: 225
Loc: San Diego, California USA
Hi Tony,
I sure haven't seen that error message before....Maybe someone else will pipe up that has seen the message with some advice. If I was in your shoes, I would build up a new hard drive with the OS and then copy your music (the large partition out of the 4) to the new drive from your existing hard drive (outlined by my post in the General section). Curiosity question: Have you been able to upgrade your existing drive to the new software release? I had trouble doing that on drives that had a lot of music...

Let us know how it goes....Thanks, Randy
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#228597 - 27/07/2004 08:16 Re: Failed to Set Silent Search Help [Re: Tony]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4172
Loc: Cambridge, England
Quote:
I have the HSX-109 (may be the only model, but I really don't know). Worked for two years and then over the weekend it said, while loading, "Failed to Set Silent Search". Then, it says "Player Starting" and freezes. Any suggestions?

Sounds like it's having trouble accessing the hard disk -- "silent seek" is a disk feature. I suggest opening it up and checking the connections (power and data) to the disk.

Peter

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#228598 - 27/07/2004 14:39 Re: Failed to Set Silent Search Help [Re: peter]
Tony
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Registered: 25/07/2004
Posts: 2
I have not tried the upgrade yet, so I can't verify if that's a problem. Maybe I'll do it now...

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#228599 - 27/07/2004 17:04 Re: Failed to Set Silent Search Help [Re: Tony]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Just what we need, another Tony.

If there isn't anything going wrong with the connections and fiddling with them doesn't do any good, then take Randy's advice and get a new disk drive (upgrading the size in the process of course!).
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#228600 - 27/07/2004 17:06 Re: Failed to Set Silent Search Help [Re: tfabris]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Oh, and by the way, is the player getting very hot? For example, is it in your stereo cabinet right directly above your main amplifier or something? Excessive heat tends to kill disk drives slowly, over a period of months.
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