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Hello. I have a Tivo HD TCD652160 that is over a year old now. The problems have happened suddenly over the last week. One morning while going to work, I noticed that the Tivo was a lot louder than normal and sounded like the fan was blowing at high speed. I had never hear this before, but chocked it up to the unit getting warm and the fan kicking in to cool the unit off. The next day, in the evening, the unit suddenly froze mid screen when my wife hit the Tivo button. No response what so ever so I cycled power on it. The unit came up okay, about 2 hours later, it froze again . . . same problem. Cycled the power and it gets stuck on the Welcome! Powering Up. . . screen. After reading forums and troubleshooting the unit, I decided that it was probably a bad hard drive. So, I had an extra drive sitting around that I wanted to use to replace it so I used the InstantCake from DVRUpgrade. This worked well. I replaced the drive into the unit and it booted up perfectly. I went through the setup, the cable card paired up okay and life was good!
About 3 hours after having it running, the same symptoms start to occur!!! Freezeing, power cycle and it would get a little further to the "Just a few more minutes . . . " screen, but wouldn't go any further. Power cycled again and it is now back to the "Welcome! Powering Up..." screen.
I wondered if the unit could be just overheating so I unplugged it, and let it sit for 30 minutes, then powered back on and it's still at the Welcome! . . .screen which is where it sits right now no matter what I do. I've gone through the other troubleshooting of removing and disconnecting everything etc. to no avail.
Kickstart codes do not work. After powering on the unit and holding down the pause button, the green light is the only light that is lit and the other lights never light up.
Could the new(er) hard drive that I put into the unit be bad also??
Are these symptoms of a mother board slowing going bad? Or is it the power supply? I have a hard time believing it is the power supply though because the unit turns on, the fan runs and the hard drive does spin up.
I am now at the point of deciding to dump more $$ into it or just upgrade the darn thing.
Any advice at this point would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
About 3 hours after having it running, the same symptoms start to occur!!! Freezeing, power cycle and it would get a little further to the "Just a few more minutes . . . " screen, but wouldn't go any further. Power cycled again and it is now back to the "Welcome! Powering Up..." screen.
I wondered if the unit could be just overheating so I unplugged it, and let it sit for 30 minutes, then powered back on and it's still at the Welcome! . . .screen which is where it sits right now no matter what I do. I've gone through the other troubleshooting of removing and disconnecting everything etc. to no avail.
Kickstart codes do not work. After powering on the unit and holding down the pause button, the green light is the only light that is lit and the other lights never light up.
Could the new(er) hard drive that I put into the unit be bad also??
Are these symptoms of a mother board slowing going bad? Or is it the power supply? I have a hard time believing it is the power supply though because the unit turns on, the fan runs and the hard drive does spin up.
I am now at the point of deciding to dump more $$ into it or just upgrade the darn thing.
Any advice at this point would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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