Salvaging an HDVR2 with a bad tuner

[southernbills]

How difficult is it to swap out a tuner from one HDVR2 to another? I have two HDVR2s that each have a bad tuner. I have replaced each one with another HDVR2 from ebay. I now have the two original HDVR2s that work fine with the exception of each one having a bad second tuner. Is there a way to take the good tuner out of one and put it into the other so that I would have a unit with two good tuners?

[JimSpence]

How good are you with a soldering iron?

[TechDreamer]

Do a search and you will find others with this issue. You do not have bad tuners. The consensus seems to be problems with the power supply.

[southernbills]

I'm not bad with the soldering iron. I dabbled in amateur radio in my teens and have assembled a few Heath Kits.
I'm sure that it's the tuner since the rest of the unit works fine, the two new HDVR2s worked fine as soon as I plugged them into the old cables (therefore no line fault or multi-switch issues) and when I opened them up there were no bulges near the power supplies.

[rbtravis]

CCS corporation can fix your tuner for a fixed price.($100.00)
http://www.ccscorporation.net/dss.htm
Quick work and I have never heard of any complaints. Its the green thing to do.
:)

[JimSpence]

What TechDreamer is referring to is that some TiVo models have a problem with tuner 2 when using the composite outputs. Try using the s-video if you can.

See http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=5834809

[ttodd1]

Do a search and you will find others with this issue. You do not have bad tuners. The consensus seems to be problems with the power supply.

Not always. I am having same issue and did put a new power supply in it and it did not fix the issue.

[classicsat]

You cannot swap "tuners" on an S2 D-TiVo, for the tuners are built as part of the mainboard, with sheilding cans installed around the tuner circuits. Also, you need more than a soldering iron, but a hot air or similar reflow station for redoing ICs.