Got my HiMedia HD900B player last week from Digital Mall, PJ (ccs221), video playback is exellent on almost all the format i tried, however there are 2 problems I encountered:-

1) After I switched off my player & switched it on again, it couldn't
detect my external harddisk (BUFFALO). Tried to switch off & on the player & my HDD many times but still couldnt detect. Then I tried swapping the USB ports on the player, sometimes it will detect my HDD and sometimes it will not....very frustrating! I tried my HDD with other media players & it works FINE...so meaning nothing is wrong with my HDD!

2) The player's audio playback is faulty...when i play mp3 files, watch
youtube videos & certain movies, the audio will disappear for a few
seconds and come back...this happens repeatedly throughout the
whole video/mp3 playback...I set the audio setting to RAW, LPCM, LPCM Multi Ch & Auto but still the same problem happens.

I took the player back to the dealer & complained. They gave me a replacement set & they upgraded the firmware to the latest version (1.0.0.26)...BUT i'm STILL having the same problems as above.
PLEASE HELP!!!