hiya, yes ive done all the online updates i check about once a week for updates, i did read somewhere about the hard drive could be the problem so i used that convert filesystem ext3 to ext4, and i just formated my usb drive to make it ext4 as that only stores my epg data so easily done again, but to be honest since the other day when i was going to downgrade its beeen ok lol, it became unresponsive again to the point the vix logo in top left corner was just spinning and i left it for a good 10 minutes and still nothing, so i turned it off for couple of minutes and turned it back on and i got into a film so dint end up reflashing and for the last 4 days its been great, nothings changed though so im presuming its going to happen again but i hope it not, it used to do the vix logo spinning thing every other day i would say at least thats why i was looking into downgrading, but i might try what ams3521 said as im virtually caught up on all my recordings, ive only got about 7 things to watch and then il be able to format the hard drive with out losing anything, so il flash the orignal vu duo image, format hard drive, factory reset, flash latest vix image back on, when ive flashed vix image back on then is it best to start a fresh totally ? or can i load my old settings ? reason i ask is all the auto timers i have set up, i have read about backing up the auto timer xml file but ive never tried it so no idea if it works that way, thanks