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    Tivo HD rebooting

    The other day I was in a hurry after work and carelessly kicked off my workboot which flew and hit the tivo box. Since then I have the classic dead hard drive symptoms, if I am watching a recording it will self pause with no ability to control the tivo with the remote, then it reboots. Also, I had a recorded show paused for few minutes when suddenly it rebooted as well. I am currently running kickstart 54 and have passed the first 3 tests, it is running extended test now.
    Did I bump something loose inside the tivo? Or did the harddrive "needle scratch across the record" and now I have a corrupt drive?
    Should I take apart the unit and see if connector came loose?
    I will also look at the capacitors when the box is open, but I looked at the pictures of bad capacitors on this site and I only see 1 picture that shows a bad capacitor the other two I dont see whats being shown, is it the white foam stuff I see? Thx in advance all
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    It does sound like a bad drive. Most likely, the drive head hit the surface of the platter during the vibration.

    Definitely check your capacitors also. The pictures only show one bad cap each:

    http://www.weaknees.com/bps
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      UPDATE: I formatted the drive, then used instantcake and re-imaged the drive, I was depressed when all I got was grey screen after the power up screen. I left the box unplugged for a few days and on a whim I plugged it back in, BAM, it booted up normal and walked me thru guided set-up, I was able to get the software to update to 11 from 9.2 I have used the tivo in the same manner as when it began rebooting on me, IE pause live tv and wait, or pause a recorded show and wait. I left the tivo on pause while at work today and it was still paused when I got home. So just as I was about to brag I noticed one small issue. My 320GIG drive shows 21 hours HD record capacity. It should be 80ish hours I thought, I know for a fact I didnt double the hard drive from stock(I did the upgrade 4 years ago to 320GB from 160GB) and get 1 hour LOL.
      I have searched myself BLUE in the face trying to find a solution to incorrect capacity. I cannot figure out what my next step is.

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      • #4
        Should really be about 40 hours.

        In any event, that sounds like an issue with the software you used. Did you choose an expansion option?
        Been here a long time . . .

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        • #5
          I used the same software and did the process again. This time I show 44 hours, which is what it should be. I will wait a few weeks before tooting my horn LOL.

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          • #6
            How do you do software updates?

            I thought TiVo did them automatically when you connected?
            Thanks

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            • #7
              Originally posted by dmkagey View Post
              I thought TiVo did them automatically when you connected?
              Thanks
              This is true for all TiVo units without DIRECTV built in.

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