Humax box no power help. its for my mum LOL

[jamesey]

my mum has a humax hdr fox t2 free view recorder with a 500 GB hardrive , the stadby light was on yesterday and when she pressed the stanby remote button all the red ring light that should turn orange/blue just went out and hasn't been back on since , there is no noise from the hardrive or the fan isn't running , ive swapped the hardrive for a spare one I had but its still the same.

ive got a volt stick tester and im getting power 240v to nearly every part of the circuit board.

theres not much information about this matter on the net , any help would be great as id really like to get this back working for her.

ps ive not got any bulging capasitors that one forum describes as a faulty psu ,

is there anything I can try , many thanks.

[S1 1DJ]

my mum has a humax hdr fox t2 free view recorder with a 500 GB hardrive , the stadby light was on yesterday and when she pressed the stanby remote button all the red ring light that should turn orange/blue just went out and hasn't been back on since , there is no noise from the hardrive or the fan isn't running , ive swapped the hardrive for a spare one I had but its still the same.

ive got a volt stick tester and im getting power 240v to nearly every part of the circuit board.

theres not much information about this matter on the net , any help would be great as id really like to get this back working for her.

ps ive not got any bulging capasitors that one forum describes as a faulty psu ,

is there anything I can try , many thanks.

 

Try the DTT Freeview section on the forum on the Digital Spy website. Hopefully someone can help you on there!

[allysum]

To be honest if you're getting 240v across the whole board there won't be much left of it to repair. The 240 should stop at the power supply, even if it has burnt out. The highest voltage you'd find on the board after the PSU is 12v.

 

Capacitors don't have to bulge for them to be faulty and Humax PSU's are prone to this kind of problem. Resistors can burn out too I'm afraid. Anyway, I think this is the repair kit for your box: Humax PSU repair kit. It's a by no means a guaranteed fix and if it doesn't fix it the chances are your mainboard has blown as well unfortunately.