R10s are rebooting itself

[pitt_steelers]

I have two R10s (in two different rooms) and they have both been spontaneously rebooting for over a month now. It doesn’t matter what I am doing (watching live TV, watching taped shows, pausing live TV, taping shows only, etc), it just shuts down and begins the restart process. At first it was just annoying and I was convinced it was DirecTV fixing something, but now it is cutting off most of my recordings and making playback/watching difficult. If it was just one of them, I would assume it was hard drive failure, but with both doing it at the same time, it seems like something else. Is there anybody who can help me? Thanks.

[markbox]

There are at least 4 threads within the first two pages of this forum
that deal with the rebooting issues. You should start by reading
those threads.
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OK people, We need to organize and push DirecTV for a fix!
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=368836
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Since 6.3e, Tivo's freezing
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=364660
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6.3e on standard-def units -- is it really a problem?
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=367809
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DTivos that are "rebooting"
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=336122

[bobbarn]

I feel your pain... My R10 would play fine for 5 minutes (max), then stutter, stutter, reboot... It even did it if I unplugged the Sat cables and watched recorded shows. I broke down and ordered a new 300GB drive from Weakknees, installed it and the unit has run flawlessly since (w/ sw ver 6.1). I just wish I could extract all the episodes of "Little Bear", "Lazy Town" and "Wow Wow Wubzy" that kept my kids at bay for hours on end from the original hard drive.

[markbox]

Based on a tip from someone on this forum I found that if I
disconnected the coax cables from the back of my DirecTiVo, powered
it up, and bypassed the "downloading data from sattelite"
to get into my Now Playing list I could watch all my recordings
without the system rebooting.
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So, if you want to access your old disks recordings you may be
able to use this same technique. Of course you'll have to swap
hardisks which can be a hassle unless you do what I did and attach
a 5.25" IDE drive bay and insert you hardisks in caddies to
make swapping disks simple. :-)