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upgrade problem - temperature too high
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Posted by: lukest

Hi there,

I just bought a second hard drive for my tivo 2 from weaknees. I added the hard drive and when I turned on my tivo I get this blue screen of death saying that the internal temperature is too high and tivo is shutting down.

It was working perfectly fine before I added the second drive. And yes, the fan is on.

When I remove the second drive and put back my original configuration, with my original drive, I am still getting the temperature message.

I've ruined my tivo! Please help.

Thanks

Tom

Posted by: litzdog911

You may have damaged the temperature sensor, or perhaps there's a loose cable. I'm not sure, though, where the temp sensor is located in a Series 2 standalone Tivo. Someone else here might.

Posted by: skanter

quote:
Originally posted by lukest
Hi there,

I just bought a second hard drive for my tivo 2 from weaknees. I added the hard drive and when I turned on my tivo I get this blue screen of death saying that the internal temperature is too high and tivo is shutting down.

It was working perfectly fine before I added the second drive. And yes, the fan is on.

When I remove the second drive and put back my original configuration, with my original drive, I am still getting the temperature message.

I've ruined my tivo! Please help.

Thanks

Tom

Have you spoken to Weaknees? Hopefully, they've seen the problem before and can tell you what to do.

Posted by: catnao

Hey has anyone figured out what the problem with the temperature thing is

Posted by: lukest

Well, I found a way to fix my problem. I restored the original tivo image to a new hard drive and installed it. Tivo works again. There's nothing wrong with the hardware, well at least my tivo. I think this results from a bad hard drive.