I received error 5d7 . And I tried to restart the receiver but it came back on with same issue. Has anyone else gotten this error?
Hard drive failure on hopper 3
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DISH NETWORK Receiver Error Code List - 3 And 4 Digit Codes
Does your DISH NETWORK receiver display an error code? Below we have a list of ALL known codes. The codes below are 3 and 4 digit numerical and
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No 5D7 on the list but I looked at all the 5s and came up with 527:
DISH Receiver Error 527
DISH Problem/Solution: ATTENTION Your hard drive is being repaired.
This will take a few minutes.
Do NOT disturb your receiver until the repair has been completed.
When the repair has completed, your receiver will be restarted.
Maybe that's it. It seems to fit.
DISH Receiver Error 527
DISH Problem/Solution: ATTENTION Your hard drive is being repaired.
This will take a few minutes.
Do NOT disturb your receiver until the repair has been completed.
When the repair has completed, your receiver will be restarted.
Maybe that's it. It seems to fit.
There is a good chance of that but if you just leave the receiver turned on and walk away for a while it might fix itself. As the remarks say:
Do NOT disturb your receiver until the repair has been completed.
When the repair has completed, your receiver will be restarted.
It’s actually 311 with reference being the 5d7
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This happened to me before (I don't remember the error code) what was neat was that while the DVR and most features didn't work, the Hopper still worked like a regular satellite receiver and I could still watch TV on the Hopper until my replacement arrived. I hope this is still the case for you. 
Yes receiver still works , I just hate it that I lost all my recordings.This happened to me before (I don't remember the error code) what was neat was that while the DVR and most features didn't work, the Hopper still worked like a regular satellite receiver and I could still watch TV on the Hopper until my replacement arrived. I hope this is still the case for you.
I hear you there.... that is why I copy all my important stuff to an external hard drive. I was bit once as well.
But they are mechanical devices and they do die over time. I think for the most part the life on the drives on Hopper 3's has been really good for something thats running 24/7.
But they are mechanical devices and they do die over time. I think for the most part the life on the drives on Hopper 3's has been really good for something thats running 24/7.
That makes the error code (311) seem really appropriate, since the failure basically turns the Hopper into a 311 (non-DVR receiver).This happened to me before (I don't remember the error code) what was neat was that while the DVR and most features didn't work, the Hopper still worked like a regular satellite receiver and I could still watch TV on the Hopper until my replacement arrived. I hope this is still the case for you.
Not to rub it in, but I am still using a deactivated 512 that still works just fine as a DVR. I don't even know what year Dish stopped making that model. Yes, the lifespan and reliability has seemingly gone downhill with each new generation after that. I recently had a ViP612 die, and Dish did the same thing with me, charging me fees to "upgrade" even after originally saying there would be no upgrade fee. It makes me really sort of scared to purchase a Hopper 3, after reading the above rant, as well as the numerous other posts on this site from people who have had Hopper 3's fail and needed to replace them. I probably won't let it actually stop me from getting a Hopper 3, though. I am a gambler.
Doc. Just curious, how long have you been a Dish customer?
Maybe you could swing by the Loyalty Department and see what they could do about fees.
Maybe you could swing by the Loyalty Department and see what they could do about fees.
I have not had any problems with my hopper 3 and it has been close to 4 years. It runs all the time so I was concerned about the hard drive going bad. I recently switched out the internal hard drive with a new one to be proactive in replacing it before it failed. It was very easy to replace and the receiver booted right back up.
I've thought about keeping a spare on hand as well. You're saying you replaced it with a bare unformatted ST2000VM003 and it worked without any cloning or formatting?
I copied everything to an external hard drive first. I replaced the internal hard drive with a Seagate ST2000VM003. However the actual hard drive that was in the H3 was a Western Digital WD20EURX-57T0FY1. And yes it booted up and reformatted the new internal hard drive. I than reconnected the external and copied my recordings back to the H3. The only problem I had was I lost the timers to record, but that was not that big of a deal.
Fabulous info! My newest Hooper is the 3 and it's been running with no glitches for 3.5 years. The Hooper at my lake house is a Hopper W/Sling about 5-6 years old. Not sure if it's the first version or not. I've never backed them up or used an external but this thread is making me think hard about doing it now or replacing the hard drives.
An option for the Doc is sending the hard drive to a recovery service. I stupidly let one of my hard drives die in a critical work machine several years ago and they recovered 95% of the contents. Since then I've installed a NAS everywhere and it continuously backs up and I even have NAS's backing up to other NAS's in different locations just in case. I bet a recovery service would be able to get a lot of the contents of that drive. Check it out Doc.
