Reboot HELL

[KizzaMe]

I have a 140060 unit. When I purchased it 4 years ago, it had been upgraded to a dual-drive configuration. Outside of the occasional power supply replacement, it has worked perfectly.

It is networked using a wired Linksys USB200M connected to a Linksys WGA54G wireless game adapter.

In July of this year, I noticed that the TIVO would occasionally freeze while changing channels. Fearing the drives might be failing, I decided to upgrade to a single 320GB Seagate 7200.10 drive configuration using the Weaknees LBA disk. This worked fine until about 2 weeks ago (did this coincide with the KidZone download?). The TIVO would then spontaneously reboot. However, it would either freeze at "powering up", get as far as "almost there" and freeze, or just leave a black screen. I noticed that sometimes, one of the green lights on the USB200M and the WGA54G would blink rapidly on the odd occasion it got as far as the "almost there" screen.

I reimaged the drive...same thing happened.
I reimaged the drive, cleared and deleted everything and started guided setup...TIVO rebooted unexpectedly during guided setup.
I put the old drives back in...same thing happened.
I have replaced the IDE cable and the power cable.

Any ideas or has my TIVO gone bye-bye?

[jkovach]

Sounds like a flaky power supply, probably will be toast soon. Guess you should be a pro at changing them out, but your statement really has me wondering. The occasional power supply replacement? If you have bad power, why don't you get a UPS to smooth it out?

As a comparison, my oldest Tivo is a Series 1 bought in Sep. '99. It's still running 24 x 7 on it's original power supply, and no UPS - thank goodness we have good clean power here. Also have a Series 2 and a Pioneer Tivo w/ DVD burner, all running fine without the occasional power supply replacement...

Jeff

[KizzaMe]

Sounds like a flaky power supply, probably will be toast soon. Guess you should be a pro at changing them out, but your statement really has me wondering. The occasional power supply replacement? If you have bad power, why don't you get a UPS to smooth it out?

As a comparison, my oldest Tivo is a Series 1 bought in Sep. '99. It's still running 24 x 7 on it's original power supply, and no UPS - thank goodness we have good clean power here. Also have a Series 2 and a Pioneer Tivo w/ DVD burner, all running fine without the occasional power supply replacement...

Jeff

I do have a UPS. I misspoke...I think the power supply has been changed once or twice over the last few years before I sprang for the UPS about a year ago. :)

I changed the power supply as a precaution when the spontaneous rebooting began.