sennister
04-29-2006, 01:18 PM
Hello,
I think I may have a HDD that has failed. I bought a Sony T60 Series 1 new many years ago and have DirecTV Service on it. Anyhow about 8 months ago I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my HDD from the stock 40GB to a 120GB drive. I used info from here to do the transfer and everything was working great until this morning.....
As of today whenever I try and watch anything it is skipping very bad like it does during a bad storm. It is raining but more of a light rain that is not hard enough to cause this. I went to sat setup to check my signal strength and I am getting 85-96% signal strenght on different transponders. I selected one that is steady at 96% and there is no change. I also noticed that it is very difficult to navigate through the seup screens. When I hit buttons on the remote I see the LED come on saying it is getting the signal from the remote but it takes a long time for the TIVO to actually do the command. It also skips while trying to watch shows off the hard drive that were recorded during good weather and played fine last night.
So, here is what I have tried...
reset the box - No change
powered off the box - No change
powered off and unplugged the box - No Change
powered off, unplugged for 2 hrs - No change
Opened box and powered on to make sure fan is working - Fan works, no change
Swapped 120GB drive with original 40GB - TIVO WORKS FINE
So swapping out the HDD for the original one fixed it but what has failed. The new drive is nice and quiet. Heck the old one is 1000 times louder than the 120GB. So no sounds of failure. I know that still could mean that I have bad sectors on it. It should be covered under warranty but I am hesitant to plug it into my computer and begin testing it. I know that when it is plugged into a XP machine that files are put on the drive and it cannot be used in the TIVO until they are removed. If the drive is bad then I don't care I need to get it swapped out anyhow.
Basically I figure it is one of 2 things
1. Bad drive
2. possible problem with TIVO update.
I see that there was an update pushed recently maybe in the last 24 hrs when my problems began. Should I put the original drive in and leave it for a while?
I should mention that we moved recently and until we get things set up how we want we have not had out phone line hooked up as there is no phone jack near the box. Are updates pushed via phone or over the sat signal?
Thanks
I think I may have a HDD that has failed. I bought a Sony T60 Series 1 new many years ago and have DirecTV Service on it. Anyhow about 8 months ago I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my HDD from the stock 40GB to a 120GB drive. I used info from here to do the transfer and everything was working great until this morning.....
As of today whenever I try and watch anything it is skipping very bad like it does during a bad storm. It is raining but more of a light rain that is not hard enough to cause this. I went to sat setup to check my signal strength and I am getting 85-96% signal strenght on different transponders. I selected one that is steady at 96% and there is no change. I also noticed that it is very difficult to navigate through the seup screens. When I hit buttons on the remote I see the LED come on saying it is getting the signal from the remote but it takes a long time for the TIVO to actually do the command. It also skips while trying to watch shows off the hard drive that were recorded during good weather and played fine last night.
So, here is what I have tried...
reset the box - No change
powered off the box - No change
powered off and unplugged the box - No Change
powered off, unplugged for 2 hrs - No change
Opened box and powered on to make sure fan is working - Fan works, no change
Swapped 120GB drive with original 40GB - TIVO WORKS FINE
So swapping out the HDD for the original one fixed it but what has failed. The new drive is nice and quiet. Heck the old one is 1000 times louder than the 120GB. So no sounds of failure. I know that still could mean that I have bad sectors on it. It should be covered under warranty but I am hesitant to plug it into my computer and begin testing it. I know that when it is plugged into a XP machine that files are put on the drive and it cannot be used in the TIVO until they are removed. If the drive is bad then I don't care I need to get it swapped out anyhow.
Basically I figure it is one of 2 things
1. Bad drive
2. possible problem with TIVO update.
I see that there was an update pushed recently maybe in the last 24 hrs when my problems began. Should I put the original drive in and leave it for a while?
I should mention that we moved recently and until we get things set up how we want we have not had out phone line hooked up as there is no phone jack near the box. Are updates pushed via phone or over the sat signal?
Thanks