You should try re-doing Guided Setup. If the problem persists, you likely have a motherboard issue. A drive isn't likely to fix it.

Any ideas?

I just got back into town and tried re-doing guided setup, but no luck.

Everything else on this works fine, even the dvd player, is there anything I can do, either replace the motherboard or transfer my lifetime service to another unit?

Do I have any options??

What type of input are you using on the TiVo? Is it from a cable box or sat box or an antenna?

Input

It is from a motorola cable box, from the box i have been using rf to the tivo and then r/b/g plus audio cables to the tv. I also have outputs from the cable box using the r/b/g plus audio directly to the tv (I switch components when watching HD programing since tivo won't properly display HD) The r/b/g direct to the tv works fine, everything worked fine propr to a week ago.

During guided setup tivo recognizes that there is video coming from rf, but no image is displayed in the background. Also downloads from tivo updates display fine (such as one I received today for Oceans 13). When trying to watch "live tv" thru the tivo, sometimes I get the blue screen telling me there is no video and a troubleshooting guide.

OK - can you use yellow/red/white or S-video and L/R audio to the TiVo to see if that works?

Tried S Video....

But that did not work either, just a black screen, but as I said, everything that is currently saved to my tivo plays back just fine. I don't get it.

Something on the input side . . .

But when you tried that, did you re-do Guided Setup to tell the machine to look to those inputs for video now? The TiVo won't automatically hunt to the other inputs.

No, I did not redo guided setup, but I went into the settings feature and manually changed it to S Vid(tivo detected video on both S vid and the rf, which is correct).

Also, Tivo is still changing channels and attempting to record programs. For example, it just changed to "Take Home Chef" which I've watched several minutes of now(on the other output direct from the box), but when I go into "now playing" it shows "take home chef" currently recording with 3 mins recorded so far, but if I try to play, i cant rewind or see the picture, the tivo time bar at the bottom shows less than a minute recorded.....so i can neither rewind or fast forward.....

After typing all that I checked again and tivo shows "take home" in progress, 6 minutes so far, but when I tried to access it under "now playing " (as opposed to live tv) the red tivo background stays up with the tivo time bar at the bottom, but again, i can only rewing maybe two seconds or so and no pic or audio. When I hit live tv I get the black background screen and the bar at the bottom with almost no room to rewind, same as when i access it thru "now playing"

Update, I went into settings to make sure I had it on rf again not s vid, and it completely froze as I scrolled thru, for what thats worth....

Bump!

Any ideas on whether this is Motherboard or Hard Drive?

If it's the Motherboard can weaknees help or point me in a right direction or should I try calling Toshiba?

It pretty much must be a motherboard. You'd need to call Toshiba - we can't repair that.

Fair enough, thank you for trying.