Series 2 Tivo restarting daily?

[cyprus29]

Model: Toshiba DVD/Tivo SD-H400
The symptom is this: I start watching a show...it's usually the earliest show that is currently on the Tivo -- so the show right before the Deleted Items...and then I get about half way through the program and all of a sudden, the box powers down and I get the "Welcome" screen...and it's powering up.

I started noticing it about 3 weeks ago, but thought it was just a fluke...then I started paying attention and was like, "Maybe there's something in the show that's setting a flag that's causing the TiVo to reboot?" because it "auto-rebooted" by itself usually in the same part of the episode...and then I watched the program again, a few hours later and got through the entire show without an "auto-reboot" and then I thought..."Maybe it's got something to do with the time of day?" But now it seems to be happening at different times of the day...with different shows...and so I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. Is the harddrive starting to go? Any suggestions on this would be helpful.

[OLdDog]

It really sounds like the drive is failing but it "could" be just a bad sector that can be locked out by a few methods.

1. Pull the drive and connect it to a PC and boot to the manufacture’s diags and run the surface scan and allow it to repair the drive if it can. This has the downside of sometimes the fix also renders the drive unbootable. DO NOT BOOT TO WINDOWS WITH THE TiVo DRIVE CONNECTED AS THAT COULD CAUSE THE DRIVE NOT TO BOOT.

2. When the TiVo reboots remember what show you were watching and mark that show as save until I delete and never delete that show. I had a reboot problem like this with one of my DTiVos and I marked the show causing the reboots as save until I delete and I have had no further problems. That was three years ago.

3. Sometimes something in the database is causing the problem and a clear and delete everything causes TiVo to rebuild the offending section fixing the problem. This can also hide a bad sector that will crop back up later as the TiVo fills up.

None of the above will fix a drive that is truly going bad but one or any of them might give it a bit more time to live.

[cyprus29]

Thanks! I'll give it a try!!