I'm a two year Apple TV user. Its been great! I have a new problem and hope
I can get some advice, My setup is a 160 GB ATV with an external 1 TB powered USB desktop hard drive - Western Digital. I leave both my ATV and the hard drive on all the time - (that might be the problem by itself) Sometimes when I change the input to my LG flat panel TV to my ATV - it just goes blank. Then I restart the ATV - same thing. I've diagnosed my problem using the Nitro utilities - still nothing. The only thing that works is to unplug the ATV and power off the ext HD for about 15 minutes - then it works fine.
I think I may be overheating one or both devices. I have the ATV on a dresser and it is elevated about a half inch for cooling. Last night I added a small fan. My ATV is almost 2 years old - so perhaps its just getting worn out. I have it connected to my iMac 5 intel (2 1/2 G ram) with ethernet via an Airport Express device which feeds off my Airport Extreme. My computer is an iMac G5 intel running OS 10.6.4
Should I power down the devices? Is there a defect in my ATV? I do have ATV Flash 4.15 installed and I always keep that current.
Any advice will be appreciated!
Bruce Schweitzer
Alpine, Wyoming 83128
I can get some advice, My setup is a 160 GB ATV with an external 1 TB powered USB desktop hard drive - Western Digital. I leave both my ATV and the hard drive on all the time - (that might be the problem by itself) Sometimes when I change the input to my LG flat panel TV to my ATV - it just goes blank. Then I restart the ATV - same thing. I've diagnosed my problem using the Nitro utilities - still nothing. The only thing that works is to unplug the ATV and power off the ext HD for about 15 minutes - then it works fine.
I think I may be overheating one or both devices. I have the ATV on a dresser and it is elevated about a half inch for cooling. Last night I added a small fan. My ATV is almost 2 years old - so perhaps its just getting worn out. I have it connected to my iMac 5 intel (2 1/2 G ram) with ethernet via an Airport Express device which feeds off my Airport Extreme. My computer is an iMac G5 intel running OS 10.6.4
Should I power down the devices? Is there a defect in my ATV? I do have ATV Flash 4.15 installed and I always keep that current.
Any advice will be appreciated!
Bruce Schweitzer
Alpine, Wyoming 83128