DVR goes to sleep

[ash 0]

Hello everyone once again,

 

The DR040 that i have doesnt seem to record continuously -as i'd like it to. i would like to see it record 24-hrs a day without a break but this doesnt happen.

 

What is happening currently is that it will record for a while and then go to sleep. If i restart it (power off/on) it will start again. At times it will record for several hours and other times it will only record for minutes. I've tried playing with the settings and have switched on the detection and the record timers (all days of the week for all the hours). On the camera detection settings i have made the LS 02 (from the default 07). All seems to have helped and it is recording more - but it still does go to sleep even when one would expect it to detect motion. One can dance right in front of the camera and it would still sit- doing nothing.

 

The question is, is there some way to do it? some setting that i need look at?

 

Thanks for your help.

[scorpion 0]

Down load this pdf

http://scorpiontheater.com/reset.aspx

 

Lets do a hardware reset.

 

Set it up for manual recording only. Turn off timer, and leave the motion detection off for now.

 

enable manual record, and lets see what it does from here.

 

If it goes out again then it might be a bad hard drive.

 

The hardware reset should get help out any chip set that needs to clear it's head per say.

 

let me know how it goes.

[ash 0]

Thank you Scorpion. Will do the hard reset and get back with the results.

 

Btw, about the bad hard drive comment. Could you please explain a bit? Does the hard drive goes to sleep - what could be the reason for that? the reason i ask is because i got this 260GB IDE HDD (western digital) just after i got hold of the DVR and it is pretty new.

 

Thanks again,

ashir

[scorpion 0]

I was thinking that the DVR is working perfectly fine, but the recording function is just info going to the hard drive. If there is a power problem, or a hard drive problem then there may be no recording.

 

If the DVR has been around sometime, then perhaps the hard drive would be an easy "target" to blame.

 

If the hard drive is known to be good, then I have no idea what the problem is.

[ash 0]

Scorpion,

Thank you for your tips.

 

I am coming to the opinion that the HDD is getting overheated and needs some kind of cooling (fan etc). The reason is, when i did the hard reset, by chance i didnt put the lid (DVR cover) back on and the dvr worked fine without going to sleep. Next day, i put the cover back on and it stopped after the usual few hrs first initially and then progressively shortening the time to sleep thereafter. I've removed the cover again and will see how it goes.

 

Once again, thank you for your inputs.

 

ashir