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nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:39 pm

I'm happy you could solve it.
Some word of how the Receptor fares in the field.

dsamwell · Post by **dsamwell** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:49 pm

hmm, well this receptor is definately a bit more pooly than just a broke hard drive.

Sometimes when I start it it's going into receptor recovery mode. As nearly every other time I start it. If it does start it does seem to be stable and run ok, but getting it started is very touch and go. Think I'll go through the troubleshooting on plugorama. Oh dear.....

nix808 - Was that a query in your post or not? Sorry didn't quite follow...

dsamwell · Post by **dsamwell** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:16 pm

Rigth well this receptor is definately not well.

Going through the the support at plugorama, they have asked me to go into the bios to check some settings. They've said just hold down "del" as the unit boots up with a connected keyboard but this just isnt working.

Any ideas how to get into the bios on a receptor 2? I simply have to get this working in 1 days time. We are playing to thousands of people over the next few days, and doing this without a backup is simply not acceptable. Oh dear.

dsamwell · Post by **dsamwell** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:41 am

So eventually found the problem.... the receptor wont accept the new apple mac USB keyboards, got an old PC one off a friend, and that got me into the bios first time no problems.

I followed these instructios from Gary@plugorama

You will need a QWERTY keyboard and a monitor hooked directly up to the Receptor. Here is what you need to change in the bios:

1. To go into the BIOS, press the "Delete" key after turning power on and display on

the VGA shows .

1. Use the up and down arrow keys to select an item.
2. Standard - floppy drive -> "not installed"
3. Advanced - full-screen logo -> "disabled"
4. Peripherals - HD Audio -> "disabled"

And its worked! The receptor seems to be not only working agian, but actually running a lot faster, and just "feels" more stable (if you get what I mean). Im going to check these bios setting on my other machine, as changing them not only fixed it but seemed to make it better than ever. I would be intrigued if any other users find changing these setings makes a difference to the running of their machine.

Well that was a massive ball ache, but glad its over. or at least I hope its over. Pukklepop, Lowlands, and V festivals here we come!

johnrule · Post by **johnrule** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:50 am

dsamwell wrote:I would be intrigued if any other users find changing these setings makes a difference to the running of their machine.

This is basic PC optimization (i.e. turn off the things you don't need)...did you reset your motherboard battery or something? These settings should be optimized from the factory, but it's good to see they are providing this information to everyone.

I took a quick look at my Receptor 1 BIOS and it had all of these tweaks (as I suspected) with the exception of AC97 audio (instead of HD Audio)...it is off of course.

I did want to mention the one important advantage of learning to use a desktop to clone...you have a digital backup of your drive that you can use and re-use (i.e. you have a snapshot of your working system). The 'Sandberg Duplicator' method requires a physical hard drive, and luckily you had another Receptor drive.

dsamwell wrote:Pukklepop, Lowlands, and V festivals here we come!

Break a leg!

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:56 am

Sorry, no it wasn't a query,
just remarking that I am a little wiser about Receptors.
Hope everything goes swimmingly with the shows.

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:25 am

This duplicator seems to be about 1/3rd of the price of the original one suggested by Gary. Anyone know the reason for such a significant difference? I hate to spend more money than neccessary for exactly the same outcome.

johnrule wrote:
dsamwell wrote:With that sandberg duplicator it is a stand alone piece of hardware, and cloning a drive just took 2 button presses. Incredibly simple and took about an hour.
That Sandberg Duplicator looks pretty good actually...

Thanks for posting your results!

Janusz Grzybek · Post by **Janusz Grzybek** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:57 am

Hello,

Recently I cloned my Receptor HDD without any hardware duplicator. I used for this operation bootable version of Paragon Hard Disk Manager (bootable CD). I connected both HDDs (new and old) to my PC and and booted from Paragon CD. In "Hard Disk Migration" wizard I selected "HDD raw copy". That's all. Operation for my full 400GB HDD (Rev.C Pro Jr) had taken 1.5h. Of course new HDD works perfectly with my Receptor.
BTW:
If you would like use bigger HDD, you can't resize wine partition (hda4) with Paragon, because this software doesn't support resize functionality for Linux partitions. However,you can use for this operation freeware GParted bootable software: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
This is simple job and you needn't know Linux, because this Linux software has GUI similar to other (Windows) partitioning software. Of course, resizing takes some time.

BTW:
Sorry for my poor English,

Best regards,
Janusz

ndurant · Post by **ndurant** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:11 pm

Is anyone aware of a way to reliably clone/backup the whole Receptor drive without having to open up the Receptor and remove the drive?

dhjdhj · Post by **dhjdhj** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:02 pm

I wonder if something like netcat (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-cop ... twork.html) could be used for this.

Perhaps Muse Research could do whatever might be necessary to allow this to work, if it doesn't already.

I'm not currently in a position to test that tool but perhaps someone else is.

ndurant wrote:Is anyone aware of a way to reliably clone/backup the whole Receptor drive without having to open up the Receptor and remove the drive?

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