eddie888

Hi Leohuangdi Thanks very much for your reply, and sorry for the delayed reply. Re the HDD you are right, it cuts it up in 8gb segments, but actually uses the full 80gb. Re the battery, and this is why it took me time to reply, the battery is actually on the underside of the motherboard (weird eh). It is an SII (Seiko) MS Lithium rechargeable battery, similar to the one shown in the attached link. Unfortuneately the small plate soldered to the battery covers the battery number. I can only see the MS and the F (no E), but not the numbers in between, so it looks like MS***F. Do you have any clue? Anyway I've never seen this type on sale. Looks like I have to just reset the date and time, everytime there is a power failure. I use a UPS, but that only lasts about 30 minutes. Thanks alot for your help, though, Eddie http://www.sii.co.jp/components/battery/productSpecBatEN.jsp?recordID=72

I have 2 questions on the above DVR: 1. I have a Seagate 80GB HDD, but the system recognises it as an 8GB drive and starts overwriting when the 8GB is used up. Is there any setting to tell the system that the HDD has 80GB capacity? 2. I have frequent electrical power outages, often for longer than the 30 minutes that my UPS lasts, so I keep having to reset the time and date. I looked at the motherboard, but could not see a small battery (similar to those in computers). Is there a battery hidden somewhere? If not, any other suggestion? Thanks very much, Eddie