T-Shee
01-06-2007, 03:06 PM
Having no problems during the first three weeks of it's life, I thought the new S3 was home free. Until a few days ago.
I noticed that some odd things were starting to happen:
- both tuners recording no picture, sound (changing channels forced them to work again)
- pronounced sluggishness in menus, 2 second delay
- "Test Network Connection" took 20 minutes
- frequent audio dropouts
Then my wireless connection failed. So I restarted the S3 and it went into the endless rebooting loop.
The TiVo S3 tech said that 95% of the time, the rebooting is caused by "damaged" cable cards. So I asked him "How can that happen?". He said that it's typically caused by "old" cable cards (early rev. levels) that sit on the shelf for a year, get installed, and get "damaged" during a firmware update - corrupted data that cannot be fixed - and once corrupted must be removed from the box to stop the reboot cycle.
I've got two new cards installed and running again (original failed cards had a build date of 3/05, new cards are 6/06)- and all of the oddities have disappeared.
Keeping my fingers crossed now that this won't happen again. Yikes! Doesn't bode well for CCs.
I noticed that some odd things were starting to happen:
- both tuners recording no picture, sound (changing channels forced them to work again)
- pronounced sluggishness in menus, 2 second delay
- "Test Network Connection" took 20 minutes
- frequent audio dropouts
Then my wireless connection failed. So I restarted the S3 and it went into the endless rebooting loop.
The TiVo S3 tech said that 95% of the time, the rebooting is caused by "damaged" cable cards. So I asked him "How can that happen?". He said that it's typically caused by "old" cable cards (early rev. levels) that sit on the shelf for a year, get installed, and get "damaged" during a firmware update - corrupted data that cannot be fixed - and once corrupted must be removed from the box to stop the reboot cycle.
I've got two new cards installed and running again (original failed cards had a build date of 3/05, new cards are 6/06)- and all of the oddities have disappeared.
Keeping my fingers crossed now that this won't happen again. Yikes! Doesn't bode well for CCs.