I have a series 2, toshiba rs-tx20. I opened it up to remove the dvd player because a dvd was endlessly spinning. Afterwards, the tivo would not boot past the "Coming up soon" screen, going into a reboot loop. I tried many different things, like using MFStools to temporarily enlarge the swap partition, etc, but nothing seems to be working. I even tried a friends Series 2 hdd. Now my tivo spends 3 minutes on the first screen (and repeats) and I cannot even do a kickstart (holding down pause accomplishes nothing).

At this point, I am thinking the cpu, mobo or some component has met is end. But before I throw in the towel, I wanted to check here for any last thoughts.