Help: boot looping tivo, continues after HD replacement

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Hi there,

So we went to watch TV a couple days ago and our Roamio standard was stuck in a boot loop where it would turn off and restart repeatedly every 5 seconds or so. Prior to this I had been getting ome pixelation on recordings, especially sports, so thought somethign was going wrong. I looked up feedback that is was probably the disk drive, but first tried to use the emergency codes with no success. So, ordered a WD 3TB red drive and popped it in last night.

I expected it to start working and have to go through the setup steps, but found that it was still boot looping. here is a video of the lights -- when the ones on right strobe it is the unit restarting.

Anyone know how I might fix this thing or is it a lost cause??

 

Thinking about doing that, but to be clear, it was boot looping with the original drive too -- it wasn't caused by the new drive. It could be that the original power brick went bad, but the new drive didn't cause it.

 

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right - not sure if that is it or not. existing one says 2 amp outut. what would be safe to run?

 

OK, so I went to Frys tonight and bought a new adapter - success! Works fine now. Put the old hard drive back in and all is back to normal.

As an aside, the tech at Frys tested the original one wiht a multimeter and said it was showing 12 V and 2 amps. He didnt think it was bad, but I tried it anyway.

Attached are what I bought in case it helps somebody. I appreciate this forum and hopefully this pays it forward a bit.