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Posted by: digitalman2112

I have a Hughes DirecTivo that is asking me to wait....forever....

After reading the forums, performing the "Pause" test, etc - I decided to try a new drive. I've tried both a downloaded image and a backup image from my original drive - I followed the Hinsdale instructions.

I did the runideturbo=false setting according to the Hinsdale instructions

I'm still getting the "Please Wait" screen. I cannot see any damage to the motherboard, and I had no signs of impending failure - just came home to the "Please Wait" screen.

My next thought is to learn about log files, hoping some nature of diagnostic is being written to the harddrive.

I'm open to any ideas - Thanks.

Posted by: jafa

Hi,

Does it say "powering up" or "almost there"?

Nick

Posted by: digitalman2112

Its the "Almost There, a few more seconds please" message.

Posted by: Robert S

What happened when you did the 'two lights' test? Anyway, it's starting not to look like a disk problem.

Posted by: pyropete

Open it up and look at the board between the phone jack and tuner.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=70193

Posted by: digitalman2112

Two Amber lights after holding pause key - no motherboard discoloration of any nature, or any smell of burnt components...

Posted by: jafa

Hi,

Try dumping the log file... drop the hdd into a PC and boot of a tivo boot CD...

mkdir /mnt/var
mount /dev/hdc9 /mnt/var
cat /mnt/var/log/kernel

Nick

Posted by: rick peterson

In looking through this forum and others, it seems there are quite a number of us having this same problem. Wouldn't this indicate something has been 'done to' our units from the outside, DTV? This can't be coincidence.

Posted by: rick peterson

I was told to send it back for a new HD. Parts are covered for less than a year but not labor as its over that period. They would not respond to the idea that this does not appear to be the random HD failure, does it?