Hello,

My DX7000 recently bit the dust. I think it's a motherboard failure but I'm not sure. It doesn't even appear to post when powered up. No signal is ever sent to the screen or keyboard as far as I can tell. The "HD" light stays solid red as soon as the unit is powered up.

I tried the hard drives (all 5 of em') in a Win98 computer and they all pass scandisk fine, except for the boot drive. Scandisk found and repaired a few errors on it. Now it passes a subsequent scandisk.

I can't figure out any way to get into the BIOS, or failing that get it to boot from a startup disk in the floppy drive. Anybody know any tricks here?

If it really is DOA does anyone have a suggestion for an easy swapin replacement? I will need at least 16 channels, 24 would be better as I'm currently maxed out and wouldn't mind adding a couple of cams. I guess the DX8016 is Pelco's current replacement? It's a little pricey, but that doesn't scare me too bad if it's the best fit. Am I missing a better value out there? I'm not very informed on other brands.

TIA for any help!

The pelco unit is very overpriced. Are their any specific features your looking for?

If you want a PC-Based system I would take a look at Geovision or Video Insight.

Learn more about geovision and see a demo at www.geovision.com.tw
Learn more about video insight and see a demo www.video-insight.com

The majority of my clients like video insight better because of the ease of use.

You can check out their web client here: demovi.com

If you want to go for a stand alone unit, you can check out:

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If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Edit: Can you please post the make & model of the motherboard if you can get it.

Thanks for the reply. I can't find a silk screened name on the motherboard like I'm used to seeing with computers. There is a small label which near as I can tell says:

Janus 60JA3
FR1B31-1 V3.0
03/09/2001 F4E7

Some of the "1"'s could be "I"'s - it's hard to tell for sure.

As far as features I'm used to with the DX7000, lets see if I can come up with a list:

1)At least 16 channels - 24 would be better
2)Motion Detection - ability to dynamically allocate more FPS to cams with activity. Or only record when motion is present.
3)At least 2 weeks backlog - more if possible. Can be activity only.
4)Easy scene & snapshot recording to CDRW or DVD/RW
5)Remote monitoring via internet
6)Compatible with Pelco Spectra III PTZ cams as well as fixed Pelco cams
7)Current system has a separate KBD300A & Coaxitron translator. Replacement compatible with this?
8)Fullscreen, Quad, All Camera views.
9)Search by date&time, when there's activity.
10)320 X 240 is fine. Higher resolution would probably kill record capacity?

There's probably something I'm not thinking of, but that's a start.

I have a dx7000 also (a DX7016-180) and I had a known hdd crash, I seen it comming so I purchased a seagate ata66/100 160gb hdd and cloned it now mine boots but needs a system disk (misplaced original). when I cloned the hdd I made a new one but will not accept it.
If you want to swap hdd and see if yours will boot on my hdd and mine on yours, or if you can clone your drive that could work also, with a system disc.
I tried to get replacement hdd from Pelco but they want me to send unit in for repair.
I believe they'll charge w/shipping $800-$1000 to replace hdd for you and diagnose. If its a bad Motherboard it depends
The earlier motherboards w/810 chipset are no longer avail. and not supported. The 815 chipset are still supported by Intel but getting hard to find.