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My Comcast supplied Motorola DCT-6412 DVR has been acting a bit funny over the last few days, mostly in the strange noises department. I shrugged that off mostly due to being more near to the TV as I’ve been rewiring things… from normal viewing distance there weren’t any perceptible noises. Well, this evening when I fired it up to watch any recorded television it gave me a little message indicating that the DVR service was ‘unavailable or disabled.’

It turns out that the hard drive has failed, the diagnostics screen indicate that no drives are connected. It looks like I’ll be swapping the box this Friday, hopefully.

The sad thing is that I just finally hooked it up with a DVI-HDMI cable, and the new box will finally have the correct HDMI connector, I guess it’s a good thing I bought an HDMI-HDMI cable the other day too.

Interesting that I’ve been going through and watching all of my old recorded stuff lately… I ended up not really losing all that much I haven’t watched.