HDVR2 freezing/crashing

[titanikusa]

My HDVR2 has been freezing and crashing since last night. Directv says the hard drive is failing and suggests I format it.

1. Is that the likely cause?

2. If so, should I attempt to replace the drive myself? I can do this in a regular PC but have no tivo-tinkering, unix, linux, etc. experience.

3. Otherwise, does anyone know where I can find someone in LA to switch in another drive?

[rock_doctor]

Naw it is easy to do yourself. Just jump over to the upgrade forum and read fast. If it is crashing on you now you may not be able to get a good operating system image off the drive if you wait any longer. You can do it with any normal PC and no experience is required aside from knowing how to install and remove a hard drive.

Good luck,
mark

look here...

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=328395

[bILLH97]

My hdvr2 has also been freezing up for several weeks. After reading the several threads, I began to trouble shoot my dvr. The only channels that are usually bad with video drop out are VH1 Classics, The Learning Channel, Spike, and Speed. After wiggling the satellite input cables I thought the cable to tuner 2 was bad. I switched the cables but it had no effect. VH1 classic was still bad video. I tried using the compnet video instead of S-video. This does help a little. The connector Sat 2 input felt loose so I tightened it up on the back. Still didn't help. I suspect there is a loose solder joint or a hair line crack in the circuit board at the sat 2 input. Perhaps more. My wife is a Tivo nut so I guess I need a used unit. Has anybody heard that Comcast has hooked up with Tivo and is going to roll out a DVR April 1? :eek:

Bill H.
Sick but still working upgraded to 100 hrs Hughes hdvr2!

[goony]

I suspect there is a loose solder joint or a hair line crack in the circuit board at the sat 2 input. Perhaps more.A few days ago someone pointed out that they had a flaky unit that was made solid working (but probably only temporary) by just firmly pressing on the PC board (with power unplugged, of course) in the area of the tuners.

It might make the problem "go solid", but you just don't know if it will end up solid fixed or solid broken.