DRT800 Humax Series 2 with dvd player/burner, thought my hard drive was bad (unit kept rebooting), took it apart to get a blockbuster dvd out and cleaned it up inside. When i put it back together it was working again, figured that hard drive was on the last days.

Didn't connect the above incident with the dvd i had inserted, until today, since about a week ago I have had the tivo running fine as a record and watch unit, zero issues - but today i stuck a dvd in to watch it (clean and scratch free) and suddenly bam unit went into repeated reboots again!

Took it apart & removed dvd, and again tivo restarted fine (no rebooting), used it for a good hour straight no issues, stuck a different dvd in and again within 15-20 seconds the unit started the reboot cycle.

pain in the rump to take it apart each time to get the disc out (eject is useless and nothing seems to remove the disc beyond me physically removing the drive and using a paperclip).

So if i dont stick a dvd in the unit works great but the moment i stick a dvd in the unit goes into reboot mode until i get that dvd out of the unit.

at first due to the rebooting i thought I needed a hard drive, but now I am not so sure, does this sound like a dvd hardware issue or maybe a tivo software issue (should i totally redo the resetup the tivo)?

Curious if anyone has come across this problem or not, and or what your thoughts are as to what may be wrong here.

Bill