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I wonder if anyone could help with troubleshooting my TIVO (HDVR2).
Some background - about a year or two ago the unit started malfunctioning and would not get past one of the initial screens. After reading up on this site that the problem could be a bad hard drive I ordered a new hard drive from weaKnees and that fixed the issue although for some reason I could never record program. I don't watch much TV so I did not bother with trying to figure that out.
Lately I noticed intermittent operation with the satellite signal. This problem only showed up on some of the channels. When I did a signal strength check one of the satellites (or possibly transponders) out of the two available showed very poor signal. I assumed a problem with the antenna or the LNA and was going to look into it.
After a while all the channels stopped working and the signal strength check was bad for everything. I started investigating the plug connections and at some point I powered down the unit. Now the unit has completely failed - on power up I get the initial gray screen followed by the blue welcome screen. However, once it is done with the blue welcome screen I just get a blank blue screen on the TV (I assume the blue screen is generated by the TV when there is no signal coming in). I cannot get the main menu or even put the unit into standby using the standby button on the front panel - the green LED remains on all the time.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Some background - about a year or two ago the unit started malfunctioning and would not get past one of the initial screens. After reading up on this site that the problem could be a bad hard drive I ordered a new hard drive from weaKnees and that fixed the issue although for some reason I could never record program. I don't watch much TV so I did not bother with trying to figure that out.
Lately I noticed intermittent operation with the satellite signal. This problem only showed up on some of the channels. When I did a signal strength check one of the satellites (or possibly transponders) out of the two available showed very poor signal. I assumed a problem with the antenna or the LNA and was going to look into it.
After a while all the channels stopped working and the signal strength check was bad for everything. I started investigating the plug connections and at some point I powered down the unit. Now the unit has completely failed - on power up I get the initial gray screen followed by the blue welcome screen. However, once it is done with the blue welcome screen I just get a blank blue screen on the TV (I assume the blue screen is generated by the TV when there is no signal coming in). I cannot get the main menu or even put the unit into standby using the standby button on the front panel - the green LED remains on all the time.
Any insights would be appreciated.
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