HDVR2 Dead?

[porschefan]

I've got an HDVR2 that I upgraded to two 120 GB drives 3 or 4 years ago. A few days ago my wife turned on the TV and saw we weren't getting any output from it, just a black screen with no audio.

When I reboot it it doesn't make it past the "Welcome, powering up" screen. At the point it normally switches to the "Just a few minutes more" screen it goes black and hangs.

I've already received my replacement from DirecTV but it's not a Tivo, it's an R15. Is there any chance I can resurrect my HDVR2? Is this just a bad drive or something?

[DonDon]

From what I hear, you will not like the R15 after living with a Tivo.

It does sound like a bad hard drive to me. I have never used a 2 drive system before, so am not sure if the second drive failing will give the same symptoms as the primary drive. Weaknees I know will sell you a replacement drive with software. There are other places including ebay where you can get what you need.

If you have a backup of your software, and are somewhat handy with a pc, you could find out which drive died, and reload your backup image to the remaining single drive and make sure everything else is still working.

Don

[porschefan]

Nope, we don't like the R15 much. There are some nice things about it but the lack of Wishlists and no ability to cancel single episodes that are part of a series recording are (and no ability to only record new episodes) are big problems for us.

I used to be an IT guy, a UNIX admin to be exact. I know my way around systems. I upgraded my original drive myself, I'm thinking of trying the Zipper stuff. I just want confirmation it's the drive and not something else before I put the effort in.

[John T Smith]

List of Possible Hard Drive Problems in message#2
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=335120

[Thom]

Are you sure it wasn't put in Standby mode? That blanks the screen and turns off the power LED.

[porschefan]

Yeah, I'm sure. I've rebooted it multiple times and get the same results. BTW, the power LED is on, it's trying to boot and hanging after the "Welcome, powering up" screen. I'm probably gonna slap the old drive back in and sell it, my daughter has a couple upgraded HDVR2's they're not using anymore, I'll just Zipper one of them and plug it in.

[goony]

FYI, a DTivo with no hard drive at all will still give you "Welcome, powering up" screen, so the hard drive could be the culprit.