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Upgraded TiVo Rebooting Problem
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Posted by: mazman

I recently added a 120GB WD to my 60 hour Series2 TiVo. About once ever other day, the picture will freeze and then TiVo will spontaneously reboot. (It NEVER rebooted itself before the upgrade.)

I first thought it was a heat issue so I improved ventilation around the unit. The last time it rebooted itself, the internal temp was 46 degrees. Is that too hot?

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot?

Posted by: mazman

Any takers?

Posted by: weaknees

Sounds like a bad drive or cable somewhere. Have you tested the drives with their manufacturers' diags?

Michael

Posted by: mazman

It's a WD drive and from what I can tell their utilities only run in Windows (not from a floppy boot disk) and I'm afraid of losing the data on the disk. Should I be concerned?

Posted by: jsciv

Mine was a failing drive. I found that if I pulled the plug it wouldn't happen for a few days, so I put the TiVo on a timer (one of those night-time lights on/off ones) and simulated a power-cycle at a time when I knew nothing would be on, which worked fine for about three months, while I saved up for a new drive and watched out all of the TV I really really cared about.

Once you've overheated the drive, if damage was done, damage was done and there's nothing you can do to stop that. I overheated (which was the reason for my problems), and the drive was never the same, but once I copied all of the data to a good drive, I stopped having reboot problems altogether.

HTH.

-- Joe