Friday, my tivo downloaded the new series 2 upgrade (9.something). I wasn't home while it loaded. I got back, the status page said it was awaiting a restart.

Things were recording, so I left it alone. After recording was done, I was getting ready to reboot when tivo rebooted itself.

It displayed the screen about it taking about an hour. I tried to stay awake, but it was 2amish and I fell asleep.

When I awoke, I found Tivo cycling between the power up screen and the screen where it says it is nearly up and to wait a few minutes.

After watching that happen a half dozen or more times, I cycled the power. The same thing occurred. I turned off the power for 15 minutes, tried again - same thing.

I unplugged the thing from the wall, and left it sit for 3 hours. Tried again - same thing. I unplugged from the wall, and left it sit for 14 hrs - tried again. Same thing. I tried off and on for another 12 or more hrs.

Does anyone have any ideas on what else to try? I don't have a lot of hardware skills and no spare equipment around to plug drives into other machines to run software, etc. . But I can't love without my tivo!