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Help my tivo just started rebooting
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Posted by: dsswhat

it just started rebooting today I have 2.5.2 on a 120 gig hard drive and today for no reason it just started rebooting.

it's been working forever and now just out of the blue it starts rebooting.

it reboot's about 1 min after it get's to live tv.

I put in the old factory hard drive and so far it's not rebooting.

Any idea's to what happened?

edit ****it's a sony t60 directivo****

Posted by: forecast

you've got a bad hard drive. It's obviously not dead, since the Tivo will boot at all, probably critical sectors bad.

When the tivo can't access something from the hard drive (no data returned in about 1000ms) it automatically reboots in an attempt to clear the error.

Posted by: fisherman69

Well maybe not!!! I had the same thing but it would also reboot EVERY time I would call in right when it tries to hang up!

I added 2 brand new set-up drives...and it does exactly the same thing!!!

I dunno about this flacky crap! It's my second TIVO in less than a year break down!

Paul

Posted by: deca3

I had the same problem. I just ignored it. After a while started getting worse to the point were it just keeps on restarting. Assuming it's a bad drive I purchased another drive. Used the dd command to copy everything over to the new drive. Booted up with no problems. Everything works with no reboots.

I might have a failing drive or bad spots on the hard drive.

Posted by: markymark7

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Originally posted by deca3
I had the same problem. I just ignored it. After a while started getting worse to the point were it just keeps on restarting. Assuming it's a bad drive I purchased another drive. Used the dd command to copy everything over to the new drive. Booted up with no problems. Everything works with no reboots.

I might have a failing drive or bad spots on the hard drive.

I'm finding different answers to the spontaneous rebooting thing, and I need to check all of them out to solve the problem with one of my units.

If it does end up needing a new hard drive - what is the "dd command" to copy everything over?

Also, any suggestions to the best hard drive brand to use?

THANKS!