I have the HSX-109 (may be the only model, but I really don't know). Worked for two years and then over the weekend it said, while loading, "Failed to Set Silent Search". Then, it says "Player Starting" and freezes. Any suggestions?

Hi Tony,
I sure haven't seen that error message before....Maybe someone else will pipe up that has seen the message with some advice. If I was in your shoes, I would build up a new hard drive with the OS and then copy your music (the large partition out of the 4) to the new drive from your existing hard drive (outlined by my post in the General section). Curiosity question: Have you been able to upgrade your existing drive to the new software release? I had trouble doing that on drives that had a lot of music...

Let us know how it goes....Thanks, Randy

I have not tried the upgrade yet, so I can't verify if that's a problem. Maybe I'll do it now...

Just what we need, another Tony.

If there isn't anything going wrong with the connections and fiddling with them doesn't do any good, then take Randy's advice and get a new disk drive (upgrading the size in the process of course!).

Oh, and by the way, is the player getting very hot? For example, is it in your stereo cabinet right directly above your main amplifier or something? Excessive heat tends to kill disk drives slowly, over a period of months.