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Upgraded Tivo Now Dead
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Posted by: BeanMeScot

My Sat-T60 went out a few months ago with a bad drive. I had it replaced with a Maxtor 100gb 5400rpm. It has worked fine since. I got a good deal on a Western Digital 100gb 7200rpm so I had the second drive added. The friend that did it booted it twice after the upgrade and it was working fine. When I got it home, it would do Powering Up, Almost there, then I would get a screen of death that said something to the effect that there was a fatal error and Tivo would try to repair itself. It should be left plugged in for 3 hour, if it did not reboot in 3 hours, it gave an 800 # to call. After a few seconds on this screen, the Tivo would reboot again, and again and again. So I unplugged it and brought it back to the guy that upgraded it.

This sounds like another drive problem to me. Is there an easy way to figure out which is the problem drive? Is there a way to have it boot just from the original drive again to see if the new drive is the problem? Any easy ways to troubleshoot this? Thanks for any help!

Posted by: elvisizer

sounds like you've run into the rare GSOD problem with large HD's.
Now, why your tivo is going into the repair sequence with 2 new drives is another question, but the reason it's not completing the repair is that you've got 200 GB of storage space and the swap partition wasn't increased. Check the sticky thread in this forum about MFStools 2.0 swap fixes and you'll see what's going on.
Personally, I'd pull both drives and do diagnostics on them. If the diagnostic utility finds any problems, return the drives.
Also, if both of those drives are 7200 RPM, you might want to replace the fan in your tivo to try to deal with all that extra heat. . . . .
I replaced my fan even with 5400 RPM drives . . . .
heat=premature HD death
good luck . . . .

Posted by: BeanMeScot

I find the Sat-T60 does run hot normally. I got a series 2 Directivo and it stays at 37 celcius. The T60 was always 47-48. One of the drives is 5400rpm and the other is 7200rpm.