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Freezing/Rebooting IDE????
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Posted by: Joey P

So I come home from work today, turn the TV on and see "Welcome...Powering Up" On the screen. (I have TiVo on a UPS and the cable box was on, so it most likely didn't lose power). Anyways, I figure, Okay, don't panic, just wait, maybe it's rebooting for a reason. A couple mins later it still said that, so I pulled the plug, waited, plugged it back in and all is well. When I came back 10 mins later, the screen says "Welcome Powering up" hmmm, no I'm starting worry, it hung on that so I power cycled again. This time I waited. Got live TV back, and went to change the channel, boom, locked again. After actually seeing it lock up several times I noticed that just before doing it, it got louder, I thing it's the second hard drive spinning up. So I went to several stores in search of a new IDE cable and eventually found one that would fit (but that's a story in and of itself). Anyways, so far it seems fine. My question is, would a bad IDE cable, cause a problem like this?

Posted by: litzdog911

Well, a bad IDE cable *could* cause a problem like this, but I think it's much more likely that it's a hard drive problem. Best bet is to remove the hard drives, install them into a PC, boot using an MS-DOS boot disk, and run the drive manufacturer's DOS-based diagnostic tools. If one of the drives is bad then you'll know which one. Unfortunately these disk diagnostics don't always catch issues that can cause Tivo problems.

Posted by: Joey P

Well it's been okay so far, so I'm going to hope that's all it was. Honestly though, I kinda saw that coming. The IDE cable that was in there was VERY strectched, and when I looked at it, some of the plastic around the wires was worn off.