I have two of these units and one of them started having the picture freeze. Never while watching programming but when I would turn on the TV after not watching for a few days it looked like the screen was paused, but the remote wouldn't unfreeze it. I would have to unplug the unit and let it reboot. This went on for a few months, it would maybe do it once a month not all that often. Then the other day I turned the TV on and I saw the Blue DirecTV screen that says "Almost there, just a few more minutes..."

It sat like that for awhile and I tried unpluging the power and letting it reboot, I would get the grey Powering up screen and then it would hang at the blue DirecTV screen and not progress any further.

I ended up ordering a replacement drive from Weakness and when I opened up the case to put the new drive in I noticed a small spot of brown (looked like burn marks on some of the white isulating foam on the powersupply (on top of the green transistor looking thing). I put the new hard drive in no problem but this didn't solve my problem.

Could this possibly be a bad power supply or am I looking at something like a motherboard problem?

I get a green light on the front of the unit and the fan does spin and I think I hear the hard drive start to spin up.