Tivo Series 1 with Jumpy video and hangs...

[kleckner]

Hello,

I've got an older Series 1. It's currently on it's 3rd hard drive. It's started getting jittery and skipping during playback, and has a couple times hung, with video frozen on the screen.

The last time I forced a reboot it gave me a green screen and said sometime to the effect of "The Tivo has experienced a serious error and needs 3 hours to attempt a recovery".

Is it time to pull the drive and replace it with a new one? Or is my beloved finally at the end of it's life?

(for what it's worth, in the event this drive is totally dead, I have the original drive stored safely away, but I suspect I would have problems with the software not being updated.)

If so, what's a good drive to replace them with? I see it's hard to find a 5400rpm 160GB drive these days. Anyone have a recommendation?

Thanks in advance.

[JackRazz]

I had a similar problem a month ago. If you check these forums, you find more detailed discussions on this. Your drive behaved just like mine before I replaced my hard drive. Replacing my hard drive fixed the freeze-up and pausing problems.

So yes, it's time to replace your hard drive. In case you don't have or get a good backup, I used the InstantCake from DVRUpgrade.com and it worked just fine.

Good Luck - JackRazz