Cachecard bootup problem.

[fluffuser]

Help please!

Having enjoyed a HA250JC 250GB tivoheaven upgrade for my original two-drive UK Tivo since March, including the mode 0 option which apparently included cachecard drivers, which I have indeed noticed showing a splash screen on startup since installing the HA250JC drive.

I asked my wife to order me a tivoheaven Cachecard for my Birthday which arrived today. Tonight I fitted the v2.2 Cachecard, with 512MB PC150 SDRAM I have from a spare Pentium3 machine.

On startup, I notice a very corrupted/flashing Silcondust logo, in what looked like the top left 480 lines of the tv screen. I waited a few minutes and cycled the power.

This time the logo was less corrupt and I could just make out 512MB and some sort of reading the verifying then cacheing with a progress bar at the bottom of the image.

When it got to the end the screen was totally scrambled and the tivo Now Playing text could just be made out.

I powered down and removed the cachecard. On startup the display remained blank, the green light was on, with the hard disk head sounding busy and the red light on. After about half an hour I was able to hear the tivo chime and see the green light flick to yellow on pressing the tivo infa-red remote button and the screen would flicker grey momentarily, but no thing more.

I powered down, reinstalled the cachecard and installed a 265MB PC133 I also had avilable. Symptoms just the same.

ping 192.168.1.200 currently fails, but my router gateway is still at
192.168.0.1, not .1.1 as described in the instructions.

I have left it on to see if it recovers overnight, plus perhaps I can try to telnet to it again on the morning?

What should I do? I hope I haven't killed the board or drive content.

thanks and regards,
Rob.

[...coolstream]

Hi,
Sorry to hear that things aren't plain sailing.

It might be wise to remove the cachecard and reboot. Then let us know if the machine is still working.

Good Luck!

[blindlemon]

Fluffuser,

It may be that you haven't fully installed it - are you sure it is pushed completely home on the edge-connector? Did you shorten the pin in the TiVo foot?

Otherwise, you could be the victim of a static discharge to the 'wrong' place on the motherboard, or maybe (but I suspect unlikely) a faulty PSU.

If you contact me by email I will happily re-test the cachecard for you. Clearly it didn't do anything untoward in my test machine or I wouln't have sent it to you:eek:

[fluffuser]

Thanks.

Thanks for the fast response to your support line too Steve, I didn't expect that at such a late hour at the weekend.

I'll follow this with Steve by email. Thanks for looking after me and my tivo!