I'm having a very strange issue with my lifetime HD Tivo 652160. My wife and I keep a lot of shows stored, so I regularly back up my 2TB hard drive using JMFS (and originally supersized with WINMFS). I've done these backups a few times over the past several years, but on my latest backup, the Tivo hangs up on the first Powering Up screen when I use the new drive (the destination drive in the JMFS copy). The exact symptom is that it displays the Powering Up screen for a minute or two, then the display goes black for a few seconds, and the Powering Up/black cycle repeats indefinitely. Now here's where it gets strange:
- The Tivo also hangs the same way if I put the original 2TB drive (The JMFS source) back in.
- I have a third 2TB backup drive with an image from a couple of years ago it was not touched as part of the latest backup process. The Tivo hangs the same way with that drive.
- In the past, this Tivo has functioned fine running any of these three 2TB drives.
- I figured I must have damaged the motherboard on the Tivo when I opened it up (I'm careful about static electricity, but stuff happens), so I decided to buy another, complete lifetime 652160 off of ebay. That unit (call it Tivo #2) has an upgraded 1TB drive, and works fine as received. However, #2 also hangs the same way with any of my 2TB drives.
- My original Tivo (#1) starts up fine if I put the 1TB drive from #2 in it.
- I checked voltages on the power supplies on both Tivos thinking it may be a one-in-a-million chance that they both have weak power supplies, but they measured fine. All caps look perfect, nice flat tops.
- I've unplugged the wireless adapter and even the cable input during start-up, and even tried a different HDMI cable and different input on the TV, just in case I have a bad connector or cable somewhere. I also pulled the Cablecard.
- Just for reference, the JMFS source drive from the recent copy is a WD20EARS. The destination was a WD20EURS and the drive with the two year old backup is a Samsung ST2000DL004.
So in summary, I have three 2TB drives, two of which have worked in the past in Tivo #1, and now they all result in a hangup at the first Powering Up screen. And I get the same problem if I put the same three drives in a second Tivo. And both Tivos will boot up fine if I put a 1TB in.
I know this is is super-odd, but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. My goal is to get a Tivo working with one of the later 2TB drives because we have a lot of archived programming.
Thanks.
- The Tivo also hangs the same way if I put the original 2TB drive (The JMFS source) back in.
- I have a third 2TB backup drive with an image from a couple of years ago it was not touched as part of the latest backup process. The Tivo hangs the same way with that drive.
- In the past, this Tivo has functioned fine running any of these three 2TB drives.
- I figured I must have damaged the motherboard on the Tivo when I opened it up (I'm careful about static electricity, but stuff happens), so I decided to buy another, complete lifetime 652160 off of ebay. That unit (call it Tivo #2) has an upgraded 1TB drive, and works fine as received. However, #2 also hangs the same way with any of my 2TB drives.
- My original Tivo (#1) starts up fine if I put the 1TB drive from #2 in it.
- I checked voltages on the power supplies on both Tivos thinking it may be a one-in-a-million chance that they both have weak power supplies, but they measured fine. All caps look perfect, nice flat tops.
- I've unplugged the wireless adapter and even the cable input during start-up, and even tried a different HDMI cable and different input on the TV, just in case I have a bad connector or cable somewhere. I also pulled the Cablecard.
- Just for reference, the JMFS source drive from the recent copy is a WD20EARS. The destination was a WD20EURS and the drive with the two year old backup is a Samsung ST2000DL004.
So in summary, I have three 2TB drives, two of which have worked in the past in Tivo #1, and now they all result in a hangup at the first Powering Up screen. And I get the same problem if I put the same three drives in a second Tivo. And both Tivos will boot up fine if I put a 1TB in.
I know this is is super-odd, but if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. My goal is to get a Tivo working with one of the later 2TB drives because we have a lot of archived programming.
Thanks.