Please help - identify system and troubleshoot

Hello everybody. I am new to these forums and this is my first post.

I recently bought a house and the previous owner included his DVR system with the transaction. It is an 8-channel DVR with audio, 500 GB hard-drive. That's about all I know about it. When connected and powered on, it boots displaying the DVR H.264 logo in blue and white, but then nothing else happens. I took some pictures in hopes that somebody on here might be able to identify it and possibly help me to troubleshoot it. It would be awesome if we can get it up and running.

Hi. You would be better just buying a new dvr...... that one is too old to do anything with

Hi. You would be better just buying a new dvr...... that one is too old to do anything with

I understand and completely agree, however for the time being I cannot do so and would like to use what is here. As I stated I just bought a house and cannot afford to just buy one outright at this moment, as I have other more pertinent things to attend to.

With that being said, does anybody have any ideas what brand this is so I can at least Google for instructions to troubleshoot, or can anyone help me with said troubleshooting.

Thank you.

Hi. Remove hard drive then try to start it up

Hi. Remove hard drive then try to start it up

I did that and it is still experiencing the same problems. I contacted the guy who sold me the house which this system came with and he stated that it never had a remote (my first guess as some have remotes which are needed to properly boot the system found during my Google researching) but he had occasionally plugged in USB mouse and keyboard to operate it.

(Edit: I also want to add that when powered on, the HDD and Power lights in the front do not light up, even though the DVR H.264 logo shows on the screen after powering up)

Do you think this would help? Maybe boot it with a mouse and keyboard attached, try CTRL-ALT-DEL to see if anything happens? I appreciate the help you have given thus far. Thank you.

Hi. Don't plug a keyboard in ......that unit does not take one and can't take one.

If you are getting the same result with hard drive out then you have a dead recorder.

Again the unit is too old to do anything with ......I doubt the last owner used that recorder .......might of swapped it out when he moved .

Put the recorders hard drive into a PC don't format and have a look through and see when it was last used