[nrune]

The Equipment:
Phillips S1 standalone PTV100 HDr 110
120gb HD ADrive only

The Symptoms:
Does not boot, hangs at your tivo is starting up graphic.
Hard Drive does spin.

Attempted fixes:
Unplug, attempted reboot, pulled original drive and restore backup, tried booting using original hard disk, hooked HD power to spare computer and tried to boot tivo.

mounted partition 9 and looked in the logs to see not a single log has been updated.

seagate HD scan showed harddrives passed.

Powersupply? Board? IDE controler? FIXABLE??

HELP, the kids mentioned something about the gallows....

 

[stevel]

From what you've described, I'd guess it's a board failure. The drive spinning shows that enough of the logic is working as is the video output, but something else is awry.

Hmm - try this. Replace the button-cell battery on the board (you may have to remove the board to do so.)

That TiVo is going on, what, 10 years old?

 

[nrune]

10 years... yeah probably so. Has a lifetime sub, hence the reason I hate to get rid of it.

Will think about the battery, not sure what else to do.

Probably a visit to tivo.com and see what kind if deal I can get.

Thanks

Mike

 

[DaveLessnau]

If all else fails, you can always put it back in factory condition, call TiVo Corp., and send it in for repair. Not under warranty, obviously. I don't know what the current repair rates are. But something around $150 might be worth saving the lifetime subscription.

 

[Gregor]

If it's that old is the lifetime still transferrable on that unit?

You could upgrade to a TivoHD and put your repair costs towards a new unit, instead.