Ha. Thanks. I held the power button for about a minute and the unit came to life. I managed to get into the settings menu and format the hard drive. Everything seems to be OK now. :thumbsup:
Blimey, it's the first day of the new year and I'm suddenly turning into BG. Here goes, my father purchased a Freeview recorder box for his partner approx 13 months ago and now it refuses to turn on, it gets to the initializing stage and then won't go any further in the start up process. He...