stuck at welcome screen

[cartman69]

I know everyone has this same question but this is new to me. I have a Series
2 and for some reason the other day it became stuck at the "Welcome - Powering
Up" screen with an irritating clicking noise that stops after about 5 minutes. I've
left it off and unplugged for 3 days now and tried alternate outlets and cables but
nothing seems to work. It is time for a new one? Please help !!!

[rambler]

Odds are that your hard drive is shot.

[litzdog911]

*** If you're comfortable opening up your Tivo (which will void your warranty if you still have one), then disconnect and reconnect all the cables leading to the hard drive(s). Sometimes connections can work loose, or tarnish, and re-seating them will help.


*** If these steps don't help, then it's likely a hard drive problem. You can try a "Clear and Delete Everything" (in the Tivo's "Messages & Setup" menu). That might help the drive repair itself, but you will lose your recordings, Season Passes, and other settings.

*** Finally, if all else fails, then you might want to try connecting your Tivo drive(s) to your PC and run the disk manufacturer's DOS-based diagnostic utilities. These are usually available for download from their web site. Unfortunately they don't always detect all of the failures that can disrupt your Tivo. Some folks have reported success using the SpinRite disk repair utility available from Gibson Research at http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm or HDD Regenerator at http://www.dposoft.net/#b_hddhid

Also check out these sources of information, much of which you'll find in the Tivo Upgrade Center forum:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=25

http://www.weaknees.com/index.html

http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/

http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/instantcake.cfm

http://www.9thtee.com/

[Alessan]

Got this from Tivo's forms

Below is listed the instructions on how to initiate the "57" fix offered
by sinanju. I had the S03 error message and lost the ability to receive
program information. When I attempted the instructions below, I found
that both lights came on amber when I plugged in the unit, so there was
no opportunity to respond to changing light colors. I just did the
"pause" then "57" thing, anyhow, and the green screen came on and it
began an automatic diagnostic which fixed the problem. Took about 20
minutes.
I do not recommend booting up using the internal program, as that traps
you into a situation where the unit becomes non-functional since the
boot up cannot be completed, due to the inability to access the download
program information, and you are stuck, and nothing can work, including
playing DVD's. Go to "boot up" by unplugging the unit instead, and
attempt the fix from there. If the fix doesn't initiate and solve the
problem, you can still use the unit, as your old boot-up is in tact and
still allows the unit and dvd player to be functional, even if you still
can't get program info.

Hope this helps, Neal Caldwell



*************Unfortunately that sounds like a drive was possibly jarred
in the move. But don't count it out yet.

If it stays like that for a day, power cycle it and try again and see if
it gets any farther. If it freezes again you might try some of these
emergency tricks:
|| While booting the power light will change from green to yellow as the
|| line 'checkpanic' in the rc.sysinit gets executed. This happens a few
|| seconds before the screen changes from the startup image to "almost
|| there" and it's your cue to hold down a button (use pause) on the
|| remote to trigger a panic. When the record light changes yellow, key
in
|| one of the following sequences:
||
|| 0 - emergency call to tivo, touchtone dialing
|| 1 - emergency call to tivo, pulse dialing
|| 9 - emergency call to tivo, touchtone w/ 9 prefix
|| -- I suggest not doing any of these unless explicitly instructed
||
|| 52 - emergency reinstall
|| -- this will act like you've received new software but will
|| reinstall the existing software on the alternate root partition
|| and boot it, particularly useful so you don't have to go
|| trolling for backup images when your hacks fail.
||
|| 56 - software install
||
|| 57 - mfs check
|| 58 - perform mfs cleanup
|| -- both of these will cause the green screen and various
mfs*************