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  • Kickstart Series 2 TIVO

    My 7 year old TIVO Series 2 can't get past the Welcome Powering Up screen. I know I can try a KickStart on it. Trouble is I never get the series of lights that are supposed to come up on the front of the TIVO. I get the green light on the The left light blinks yellow at the bottom half briefly. Then solid green. Right light never comes on. Not sure how to enter the KickStart process. I tried just holding and realeasing the Pause button, but can;t get it to do what it's supposed to for a KickStart. I must be doing something wrong but don;t know what. .

    I would really like to try and get this TIVO working so I can get the programs off it. I've just had a string of bad luck with both of my TIVOs. I had a 6 month old Premiere as well .Recently its hard drive completely went to Digital Heaven. The Premiere was still under warranty, so TIVO has replaced it. Lost all the programming on it, but some I had on TIVO desktop. Though I had all of it on TIVO desktop, but I didn't. The rest was on the Series 2. Some of it is stuff that I couldn't easily replace. Movies that were shown on TV but aren't on DVD.

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    IF you are stuck on powering up, you likely cannot do a kickstart. You likely need a new hard drive, and if you do, it is unlikely that you will be able to get your programs off. I'm sorry.

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    • #3
      Thanks, had a bad feeling it was Dead Hard Drive ala the TIVO Premiere. No chance it could be a power supply? We had a whole series of bad thunderstorms here around the time the TIVOs had their troubles. They were both hooked up to surge protectors, along with all TVs and cable lines and cable boxes and so on. The TVs and the rest are fine. but the TIVOs were not. The older TIVO went out well after the Premiere though.

      Delivery company lost the Premiere when it was shipped to me in January. Never knew where it wound up all that time. I didn't have it for several days after they claimed it was delivered. Had to get TIVO involved to help find it. Showed up a few days later, pretty sure it had spent the time sitting outside some place in the frigid cold and snow. TIVO tech support and I didn't think that was very good for it and then when the thunderstorms hit.... The older TIVO, well it was a refurb to begin with, and 7 years is a long time. Just glad that it wasn't my Vizio TV that got it. That would be more of an expense to replace.

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      • #4
        Not likely a power supply, but you can inspect it for blown/bad capacitors, see:

        http://www.weaknees.com/bps

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