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HR10-250 rebooting with rain fade

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  1. May 28, 2007 #1 of 9
    lightguy48

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    Last month my HR10-250 became very erratic in operation, finally to the point that the unit would no longer boot so I purchased a new hard drive and InstantCake 6.3d for the HR10-250.

    Since reviving the unit I have noticed a new problem, it seem like anytime there is a problem with a signal, whether it be OTA or via sat after a while the unit will reboot. Almost like some kind of 'watchdog'.

    We've been having pretty extreme rainfall all weekend so rain fade has been pretty common and after several minutes of 'searching for signal' the unit reboots. :mad:

    This is crazy, it never used to do this and there is no reason for it to reboot. The signal will come back when the storm passes.

    Is there possibly some setting or configuration in the unit telling it to reboot after no signal for a certain amount of time??
     
  2. May 28, 2007 #2 of 9
    JimSpence

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    Any chance that you lost power for a very short time? Or a short duration brown out?
    Put it on a UPS to see if that helps.
     
  3. May 28, 2007 #3 of 9
    lightguy48

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    I have it on an APC 1400XL (extended runtime), definitely not power issues.

    I'm thinking about rolling it back to 3.1.5f and see what happens.
     
  4. May 28, 2007 #4 of 9
    litzdog911

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    I doubt it's a software version problem. Can't hurt to roll back, though.
     
  5. May 28, 2007 #5 of 9
    lightguy48

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    Any suggestions? I never had this problem previously, in fact I never had any issues until 6.x was released, the unit was always very reliable.
     
  6. May 28, 2007 #6 of 9
    litzdog911

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    I assume you've searched the forums here? I've never heard of a problem where the Tivo reboots just because the signal is weak.
     
  7. May 30, 2007 #7 of 9
    nelsonrl

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    having the same issue on two systems. Never happened until the "d" release.
     
  8. May 30, 2007 #8 of 9
    Chilli_Dog

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    I had this exact same issue last weekend during some rain storms with the 6.3c release. It was crazy. The unit seemed possessed. As soon as the weather improved, it stabilized and everything was fine. Very bizarre...
     
  9. Jun 4, 2007 #9 of 9
    captdusty

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    Mine is on a UPS, so I can also confirm that mine rebooted simply because of signal loss, not from a blackout or brownout. When it rebooted, the guide data got corrupted. Now my HBO-HD Season Passes won't record, and I can't find anything on that channel when I Search. Another reboot (manually this time) did nothing to correct it. Grrrrrr.....
     

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