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  6. Posted

    I never worked with the DVR040, but I would have thought it would have been a Sata drive.

     

    Check the voltages on the power input to the hard drive. It may not be getting the 12 volts. There is a relay on other models, and I am thinking that this may have the same circuit. If the relay, or the control to the relay does not energize the hard drive then it would appear as a dead hard drive.

     

    Connect power to the hard drive and see if it comes alive.

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    For those who wish to become techs then get this tool.

     

    http://www.manhattan-products.com/en-US/products/6706-hi-speed-usb-2-0-to-sata-ide-adapter

     

    This is a great tool for computer use, and DVR hard drive use.

     

    It has Sata, IDE, and laptop IDE connectors. This kit also has an IDE power connector. Plug in the 12 volt brick power supply to the DVR hard drive, and you can test for power issues!

  12. Posted

    Thank you tomcctv for the recommendation! It is greatly appreciated!

     

     

     

    This is only a guess, but I believe the hard drive is one that came from a PC, or was removed, and then installed in to a pc, and then reinstalled back in the DVR.

     

    These DVRs need to have a hard drive that is straight out of the packaging.

     

    Another situation is that the hard drive has some bad sectors, and needs to be replaced.

     

    Do you have a computer friend that can let you borrow a new hard drive for testing?

     

    What do you think?

  19. Posted

    This is about 10MB. It will take time to download

     

    http://scorpiontheater.com/Documents/AVTech_Manual_English_AVC_760_782_V1.1.pdf

     

    It will not do 25 in frame. That is 25 divide by four channels. You will have to switch it to CIF if you want 100 images per second.

     

    25 IPS is 12 1/2 Frames per second divided by 4 channels which is about 3 frames per second per channel.

     

    Frame is not designed for full motion. It is designed for higher quality snap shots.

     

    If you must have 25FPS in great detail then get the latest H.264 AVTech DVR.

     

    CIF will give you more motion style video.

     

    It does not have Frames per second. There is no way to view what the frames per second are. This DVR uses images per second.

     

    If you must view through the browser then you will need to use IE. Firefox does not have active x.

  20. Posted

    The best solution is to buy a 12volt DVR and place it your vehicle. Install the cameras on your car.

     

    Get a router that take a cellphone air card that are used for laptops to get a wireless internet connection. Have a PC at your house record the video. If they see the equipment and steal it you still have the video.

     

    Camera for your description are probably more than you may want to spend. Once it is attached to the building the owner of the building will own those cameras.

     

    You will need to get permission from the building owner to allow you to attach cameras to the building.

     

    You are better off hiring a professional CCTV company as this is not a simple DIY project.

     

    Now is not the time to go through a learning process win 1,000s of your money is a stake.

  22. Posted

    A data recovery center is to be used with hard drives with bad sectors, or with motors that have died inside of the hard drive.

     

    Data recovery centers cost several thousands of dollars.

     

    Is the video this important?

     

    You can try this:

    http://www.piriform.com/recuva

     

    It probably will not work as the files are not in a PC format.

     

    It may be able to find them and identify them, but it will not be readable.

     

    Murder cases will require sending the hard drive to AVTech for prosecution in the court system.

  23. Posted

    I have never worked with the 796.

     

    Running throught the tabs on video viewer I would have thought that would allow you to view all 16.

     

    Sounds like it is a variable of a 9 screen times two.

     

    The video Server E will only work with IDE version DVRs

     

    Video Viewer was made for the SATA version DVRs and was created for (at the time) the upcoming H.264 DVRS.

     

    This is a viewer that can connect to H.264, Sata Version and IDE version DVRs. The Video Viewer was made backwards compatable.

     

    The Video Server E cannot connect to future developed products (from it's time of inception).

  25. Posted

    I have kept the website ad free, and Google Adsense free. The present economy is not going to let that go on for much longer.

     

    My biggest problem is time. Time I do not have. My biggest problem is being up in a hot sweaty attic working for a customer, and getting phone calls for AVTech support. I do not mind helping people. I can answer questions for about 5 minutes, but not more than that. I cannot have a customer whose installation took an hour longer because I was on the phone for an hour.

     

    One of the problems today is the cell phone issues. My customers do not set up cellphone remote view, and I miss out on all of this info. I can only repost what others have found. I would like to get an account with ATT, Verizon, Sprint, RIM, and others. What would the monthly bill be for those cell phone bills??

     

    In the old days when I just "sat" behind a desk I could take calls all day long. I guess some of the other countrys did not realize that I was on Eastern time! LOL!

     

    I have a lot of broken links that need to be cleaned up as companies have changed their websites, and I have not kept up.

     

    The website only has about 75% of the PDFs up. That is a real shame! I need to do a better job! I wish I had the time to sit down with the parts PDFs, and create schematics.

     

    I would love to buy Camtasia and create some "how to" videos.

     

    The website could be much better! I should invest in all of the various fans, hard drives, dual voltage and 19 volt power supplys, internal power supply board, and more. I would like to create a parts cart for the website.

     

    I would like to set up a tech support dept to allow people to ship their DVRs for repairs.

     

    With any changes that I make I wanted have you all on board. I want to make it the best site I can.

     

    Too free me up out of the field I may have to start advertising, and fee based support and hire someone to do the installs in my place.

     

    AVTech has taken down all of the MPEG DVRs off of their site.

    http://www.avtech.com.tw/english/cctv.aspx?Type=3&Type2=2

     

    Now it is all H.264.

     

    The demand for information on the older model DVRs is going to increase as these DVRs end up being resold on EBAY, Craigs List, and the Classified Ads. Everyone is going to be looking for manuals and such. Spare parts are going to be needed also.

     

    What do you all think?

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