TiVo "looses" Cable Card - power cycle to fix

[bfdhe]

I apologize if this is an old known issue, but i searched the forum and nothing came up similar.

About 4 weeks ago, my 3 TiVo's (2 HD and 1 S3) started loosing one cable card when a scheduled recording occurs.

Example: Watching channel 906. Second tuner has a recording scheduled and changes to channel 302. Channel being watched stays tuned and viewable. Channel being recorded goes black and nothing records. Recording indicator sits at 0:00.

Stopping the recording does not bring back a viewable channel. Changing the channel does not bring back a viewable channel on the affected card.

Switching tuners - the unaffected card works OK.

The only way to fix is a restart. After restart, everything works fine until the same situation happens again.

At first, I thought the issue was only happening on my son's HD TiVo and it was always the same channel, so I blamed the channel. However, it has happened twice on my bedroom HD TiVo and has caused missed (blank) recordings. It happened last night on my S3.

I find it hard to blame the cable company for this issue and wanted to see if any others had run into this issue.

[RoyK]

Yep! 4 weeks ago - or around the time V11 software came out. My new TiVoHD hasn't worked more than an hour and a half at a time on cablecard since (one M card). After that time if you change channels you lose the tuner - the other one is ok until you change channels on it then it's gone too.

Restarting does NOT bring it back in my case. It will come back on its own in a few hours but only for a short time after which the cycle repeats.

[bfdhe]

Thanks for the reply. I would be interested to know if anyone else is seeing this problem as well.

[RoyK]

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=413206