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My AvTech 787 reboots every 5 minutes to 2 hours. It will be operating perfectly normally, and then will restart and make the usual startup beep and then will return to normal operation again. I have checked the system events, and it logs system event 12-000 when this happens, but I can't find any information about it. I also removed the hard drive and DVD drive (including IDE and power cables) so that the board has no connected devices (except for the power supply, obviously). The DVR operated in "NO HDD" mode, but the problem still occurs. Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Got it, thanks. The DVR was ex-floor stock so I had little bits and pieces everywhere.

You sure did - That's an awesome response. Thank you. Regarding the alarm stuff, I have an alarm system that does call me when it triggers, so what I was looking to do was to have some sort of channel of communication between the alarm system and the DVR I guess. It's just so that I can trap the alarm signal from the DVR so that it will record an alarm event to the DVR and flag that on the recording so it will be easier to locate and download. I'm just not sure what physical cable interface I would need to connect the I/O port on the DVR to my alarm system. Is there a standard? Thanks again for your help.

Hi there, This is my first post, so I apologise if I'm covering old ground. I recently purchased an AVTech 787D and have a few little things I wanted to have clarified. 1. I can set it to use Frame or CIF, although I can't find anywhere which says which is the better quality 2. I see you can configure it to fixed IPS or grouped - My understanding is that if I use fixed, it divides the IPS amongst the channels regardless of whether or not they are in use, where as grouped means that they are in chunks of four and are distributed based on channels in use - Is that correct? 3. What's the dwell duration? 4. Is interlace or de-interlace the way to go? 5. The alarm IO port on the back looks to be similar to a parallel port - Does anyone have any resources that would be handy that go over the principal of hooking up an alarm system to a DVR? Thanks.