My hrid-250 died

[Ghostnotes]

Hello everyone, first post here.


Earlier today my tivo started to act strange, then shortly after it went to a blue screen telling me it shut down due to overheating. So i unplugged it for about 2 hours, removed the cover to clean it but it was clean, fan works. Reassembled it plugged it in ........same thing, so i guess it is gone. I want to be able to or is it possible to put this into a external usb case and use some kind of emulator to watch or transfer them to my pc will a Linux boot cd do this . If not I'm going to reformat it and use it as extra space


Thanks

[JimSpence]

hrid-250 ?

If you mean the HR10-250, you should ask in the HD TiVo forum.

Also check the Underground forum.

[John T Smith]

DTivo HD - the HR10-250 Forum
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=36

Forums for DTivo Hacking, Upgrades, Networking, etc
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=24

[CrashHD]

The unit is an HD unit, but nothing of the post had anything specifically to do with the HD-capability of the unit. For the purposes of troubleshooting something as general as an overheat error it could just as easily be any other model. It seems to me this forum is as appropriate as any. It's kind of disappointing to see a new member told "just go somewhere else". :(



Was this a hacked unit? If it was hacked, such that the recordings currently on the disk are unscrambled, there may be some possibility of extracting them from the disk or playing them back on another tivo. If it was not hacked, then as far as I'm aware, those recordings would be scrambled, and would never play on anything but that specific tivo.

I wouldn't give up on it yet. I would think you have one of two situations.

1) A software problem, causing the tivo to falsely believe it is overheating. Could possibly be solved by reimaging the hard drive.

2) It's actually overheating, and we need to determine why. Do any of the chips on the motherboard have heatsinks on them? if so, have any of them perhaps come loose?

[phox_mulder]

I believe the false overheating problem is tied to the HDMI card.

Early releases have had problems with the HDMI card, and the temperature sensor.

There is a company that works on the HR10's, and can update to the newer HDMI card.
Don't recall the name, but search might come up with something.


phox

[Budget_HT]

Other overheating "problems" were solved by replacing power supplies around the time that the 6.3 software was being deployed.

There are several threads that include discussion on this overheating HR10-250 topic in the HD TiVo forum.

[CrashHD]

how easily are the hdmi cards removed? Will an HR10 run (for diagnostic purposes) without it installed?

[snickerrrrs]

I believe the false overheating problem is tied to the HDMI card.

Early releases have had problems with the HDMI card, and the temperature sensor.

There is a company that works on the HR10's, and can update to the newer HDMI card.
Don't recall the name, but search might come up with something.


phox

Here's a link: http://www.ccscorporation.net/PVR_T.htm

[Ghostnotes]

The unit is an HD unit, but nothing of the post had anything specifically to do with the HD-capability of the unit. For the purposes of troubleshooting something as general as an overheat error it could just as easily be any other model. It seems to me this forum is as appropriate as any. It's kind of disappointing to see a new member told "just go somewhere else". :(



Was this a hacked unit? If it was hacked, such that the recordings currently on the disk are unscrambled, there may be some possibility of extracting them from the disk or playing them back on another tivo. If it was not hacked, then as far as I'm aware, those recordings would be scrambled, and would never play on anything but that specific tivo.

I wouldn't give up on it yet. I would think you have one of two situations.

1) A software problem, causing the tivo to falsely believe it is overheating. Could possibly be solved by reimaging the hard drive.

2) It's actually overheating, and we need to determine why. Do any of the chips on the motherboard have heatsinks on them? if so, have any of them perhaps come loose?

OP, do you have a spare IDE hard drive? I can get you an hr10 image that will install on any disc that is at least a few gigs in size. That would allow you to rule out a software problem.

Crash,

Thanks for the kind words and no it's not hacked at all, I would like to communicate with it though wireless if possible.

And yes i was kind of put off by the first reply, but that's how these big forums are.

I also posted this in the underground forum.

I removed the cover again and blew it out, removed the cmos battery and now it works...............for now, so i would guess it's not hard drive related.


And yes I would be interested in an image for it just in case

Thanks to all

[Cutestory]

I'm having the same problem with my almost 3 year old HR10-250. I called DirecTV and they're sending "a replacement." I'm not sure what that means, but I do know i have to send back my box for whatever they send me. I'm hoping they send another HR10-250, and I can try the power supply swap. I guess now's the time to try a drive swap as well...

Has anyone seen this overheating message appear with hard drive failure? I'd been having audio problems (via optical) for a while, and haven't had the thing hooked up to a phone line for more than a year, so I think it had old software on it...