Last year I had some issues with my old Phillips DSR704 Directv Tivo reciever, so I decided to go ahead and get a replacement drive for it rather than get one of the Directv DVRs (had one in another room and it was horrible!). I ordered a new, larger hard drive from Weaknees last spring, installed it and everything seemed to be going fantastically. Then, about a month ago I noticed that occasionally the picture would hang up, usually it happened if we had had the DVD player on for a while which was weird. The tivo would not respond to any input from the remote and I would end up having to reboot it to get it un-stuck. Then, in addition to the occasional freezing of the picture it started randomly rebooting itself.

When the freezing and rebooting started happening more frequently I searched the Weaknees site for possible causes of the problem and was hopeful that it was a power supply issue as the hard drive was practically brand new & the power supply was original to the unit. I ordered the new power supply, installed it and everything seemed to be working great...for about 8 hours. Then, I turned the DVD player off after my daughter watched a movie and bam...the picture on the reciever was frozen again.

So, did I just spend $70 on a new power supply for nothing? Does this sound like the hard drive is already going bad? Or, could it be a software issue? It's currently running software version 6.4a.

Any help, suggestions or answers would be greatly appreciated.