The other high probablity item is the power supply. Check the capacitors for "capacitor disease".Back when it was new, I upgraded the stock hard drive in my Series 3 (648) to a 750gb WD drive. It's been doing great ever since...until now.
I just came back from a business trip, and found my S3 in a reboot loop. It never gets past the Welcome, Powering Up screen before the screen goes black, and starts all over.
My initial assumption was drive failure, but I've removed the drive and run some WD diagnostics, and everything comes back fine. I've also dusted off the original 250gb stock drive, installed it, and I'm getting the same reboot loop.
Based on these results, I'm assuming I've got a different problem besides drive failure, but I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. I've got Lifetime service on the S3, so I really don't want to declare it DOA, and I've got a bunch of recordings I'd like not to lose.
Thoughts? Ideas? Insights? Random Musings?
If it isn't the hard drive, what else?
Back when it was new, I upgraded the stock hard drive in my Series 3 (648) to a 750gb WD drive. It's been doing great ever since...until now.
I just came back from a business trip, and found my S3 in a reboot loop. It never gets past the Welcome, Powering Up screen before the screen goes black, and starts all over.
My initial assumption was drive failure, but I've removed the drive and run some WD diagnostics, and everything comes back fine. I've also dusted off the original 250gb stock drive, installed it, and I'm getting the same reboot loop.
Based on these results, I'm assuming I've got a different problem besides drive failure, but I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. I've got Lifetime service on the S3, so I really don't want to declare it DOA, and I've got a bunch of recordings I'd like not to lose.
Thoughts? Ideas? Insights? Random Musings?
I just came back from a business trip, and found my S3 in a reboot loop. It never gets past the Welcome, Powering Up screen before the screen goes black, and starts all over.
My initial assumption was drive failure, but I've removed the drive and run some WD diagnostics, and everything comes back fine. I've also dusted off the original 250gb stock drive, installed it, and I'm getting the same reboot loop.
Based on these results, I'm assuming I've got a different problem besides drive failure, but I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. I've got Lifetime service on the S3, so I really don't want to declare it DOA, and I've got a bunch of recordings I'd like not to lose.
Thoughts? Ideas? Insights? Random Musings?
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The other high probablity item is the power supply. Check the capacitors for "capacitor disease".
Oops, I should have posted this in the 'Series 3 stuck in "Welcome! Powering up..." loop' thread over in the Series 3 forum. I found that when searching for "capacitor disease"
Make sure all the internal connections are secure, particularly any ribbon wires.
don't want to use instantcake to fix because i don't have a PC with IDE.
does anyone have a good TCD240040 image that i can try restoring to a drive via WINMFS?
does anyone have a good TCD240040 image that i can try restoring to a drive via WINMFS?
See your other post and don't hijack other people's threads, it's confusing.don't want to use instantcake to fix because i don't have a PC with IDE.
does anyone have a good TCD240040 image that i can try restoring to a drive via WINMFS?
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