Dead Bolt Green LED only never shows yellow LED

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Ok, my turn, this one has me stumped, I took some time now that it's quiet to troubleshoot my original run Bolt 500GB unit that had a Toshiba 3TB in it that's 4 years old and was assuming a bad drive.

I was wrong, in using a fresh good 500GB drive, or the now tested 3TB I see that I never make the move to the yellow LED flashing on either drive so I can't even diagnose with KS.
All I get is the Tivo logo for a few minutes, then it resets and I get the logo again, lather, rinse, repeat. This is still a TE3 unit that's ran great until this failure.

Any ideas other than it being a bad motherboard that I need to try Tivo support on?

 

Oh how I wish it was, but I have 2 other power bricks I tried with the same result.
I moved the 3TB to another 4 tuner Bolt that was never upgraded and after a C&DE that machine is happily chugging away with no errors, I'm not looking forward to seeing what support can do for me tomorrow, I'm open to an exchange fee since since it's a lifetime unit and the first I've ever had fail in a way that wasn't the drive in almost 20 years.

 

They offered a Bolt Vox replacement with transfer of All-in for $249, while I probably could have played CSR roulette and tried for less or an Edge, this will do the job considering that was my oldest Bolt and I'm sure it was bought on a huge sale way back when.

 

I suspect it's because it was a 500GB unit and they have some Bolt VOX units with 500GB still in the warehouse, I tried for an Edge, but not very hard since it's not an upgrade in my mind, but it would make a nice comparison point.