HDMI Output No Signal

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Had an interesting thing happen with my Bolt today, it stopped sending a signal out the HDMI to my TV. It's a new TV but I tried one of its other HDMI inputs, and still nothing from the Bolt. I tried replugging into the Bolt and even jiggling the connector, nothing worked. Ended up unplugging the Bolt for a few minutes and starting it up again, that worked and everything was back to normal. Having a heat wave here this week and the only thing I can think of is that the Bolt overheated, never did this before. But at least it still recorded my shows.

 

At the time I didn't think to look at the system information for the internal temperature. And yes I know there are many threads about cooling the Bolt. I was just posting about my experience yesterday, since I've never encountered this before with any Tivo I've owned. I would have thought that Tivo would have designed the Bolt to more easily handle the heat.

For now I'm going to try using water bottle caps to raise the Box up higher, for more air flow. If that doesn't work well, then I'll be buying the AC infinity exhaust aircom S7 to put under it. Just want an easy solution without much work.

 

Yes, but using water bottle caps is free and for now seems to be making a difference. But then again, we've got at least another week of the heat wave here, so for $50 I might end up getting the AC Infinity AIRCOM S7. Just not pleased about having to plug yet another device into an outlet.

 

Thanks! I just saw Amazon has the Infinity S5 in stock. Granted I'd have to turn the fans on/off manually and it doesn't look as clean as the S7, but for $15 you get two 80mm USB fans. I do like that it will plug into my Bolt for power. Or could get the S1 which is one 80mm fan. Hmmm, so many choices. But I'm kind of leaning towards the S4 140mm fan for $15, it's also in stock at Amazon.

I'm also curious where you guys put the fan(s), on your Tivo.

 

Yes I have Prime but unfortunately Amazon isn't providing fast shipping due to the virus.

 

Turned on my TV tonight and once again there was no signal coming out my Bolt. Had to reboot and the signal is back. Checked the temp and it showed 66 degrees Celsius and it wasn't really very hot in the house today. Set a desk fan near it and got the temp down to 48 degrees. My USB fan won't get here until Saturday....Grrrrr. Still not sure how to place the USB fan on my bolt. Under it blowing up? Over it blowing up? On it's side blowing over and under?

 

So, my AC Infinity USB powered S4 Multifan arrived today and I put it under my Bolt, with the cable card cover off. I'm a bit disappointed because the temp isn't going below 55 degrees Celsius. I tried with the fan dead center and then right under the Bolt's fan inlet, with no change. I even tried it with an outlet adapter to plug the fan into an outlet for a higher fan speed, but still didn't go below 55. I'll have to see what it does tonight after the Sun goes down.

 

cwerdna - the holes in the corner under the Bolt fan are definitely it’s air inlet. Blowing air from my S4 fan into it is helping the Bolt’s fan. I’ve positioned the fan more into that area, and put bottle caps under the fans rubber feet, for more airflow. Got the temp down to 50, but the inside of my house got cooler too. I think to get better cooling I might have to cut a hole for the S4 in the Bolt’s cover, to suck air out the top.

 

In your situation that works, but I don't have a cable card in my Bolt. I'm using mine OTA.