Tivo Series 2, TCD240040

anubis93611 said:

It stays on the Welcome, Powering up..... Screen... never comes off... buddy put it in his closet a number of years ago... was working fine. now its here... What do you mean by saying making me an image? PM me, ide appreciate the help...

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If it stays on that first screen, which is built into the motherboard, not the hard drive, and never reboots, that's the same behaviour as you would get from a TiVo with no hard drive.

So maybe the power plug or the IDE cable have worked loose from the drive, or maybe the +5V or +12V section of the power supply has gone bad.

If it's the power supply, it's probably capacitor disease. Capacitors of the type likely to go bad in a power supply are actually more likely to go bad from lack of use than constant use.

Even when a drive goes bad, the electronics on the drive will usually communicate something, even if it's gibberish, to the controller to which it's connected.

That's when you get the first screen and then it reboots after a while because it didn't hear what it wanted to from the hard drive, as opposed to sitting there waiting to hear anything at all and never doing so.

Do you have any experience taking computers apart and messing with the stuff inside?

Do you have the right size Torx driver to take the cover off of the TiVo?

Have you gone online with the TiVo Service Number off of the sticker on the back and run it by TiVo customer service to be absolutely one-thousand per cent certain that thing has Product Lifetime Service to be sure it's worth messing with?