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Hi, after a lot of waiting I seem to have resolved the previous problems I was having with my TiVo.
However, another one has come along. It is becoming unresponsive and hanging until I reboot it. It is happening more than every 24 hours, and I am very worried about it.
I am using a SONY SVR-2000 with the original HDD. I have searched a bit, and some things I have read say a new HDD will fix the problem. Is this true or is it something else causing it to hang?
Thanks.
There are a number of things that can cause a TiVo to lockup.
Just to list a few:
Some of the software hacks are known to be an issue
Excessive use of the remote control
Setting up or deleting a lot of season passes in a short period of time
If you are having hard drive problems, you would normally notice a degradation in picture quality first. When playing back you would see a lot of pixelation or freeze frames.
What image are you running, and have you installed any other hacks yourself.
Peter.
I was having lockups once a week. I've now set a cron job on both my tivos to issue a 'reboot' each morning at 4:10am. So far so good.
there are less heavy handed ways which have proved successful for some people. See KeepTivoWebResponsive
Even though it is about keeping tivoweb responsive, tivoweb can be responsible for event bugs causing the remote to become unresponsive.
Peter
When I start it up each time I turn on the following hacks:Quote:
Originally Posted by petestrash
-30 Second Skip
-Enable Backdoors
-Turn on 'Now Playing' list sort trick.
I installed TyServer but I believe it was freezing up before then. Also, I changed the boot script to make the OzTiVo screen come uo after the Cachecard (parents were scared of black screen) and the boot mode to remove the intro movie.
I am running the Philips image, downloaded it on Saturday morning. Had the SONY one for a night while I was setting up, and the backgrounds drove me crazy.
If it is just the hard drive failing, I'm not really that concerned. I am planning to put a 250GB Seagate in soon.
Oh, and it's not just the remote that seems to freeze. Last night it had a still image from Alias on the screen after it froze up. I don't remember pausing the show.
Well I could handle it doing that, except I don't want to lose the 30 second skip hack each day.Quote:
Originally Posted by zollymonsta
30 Second Skip is a known culprit causing freezes and reboots. A TiVo with 30 sec skip enabled will have a lower uptime then one without.Quote:
Originally Posted by woz_331
Tyserver adds extra load to the little 50mhz processor when being used, but is not known as a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by woz_331
The blank screen & movie Vs splash screen & no movie makes no difference.
As I said earlier if you are not experiencing any visual problems with playback, it is not likely to be a drive issue. But if you want to be sure pull the drive and run scan on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by woz_331
This usually occurs when the rest of tivo realises whats going on and stops live streaming, but before it actually realises it needs to reboot.Quote:
Originally Posted by woz_331
You will also get the same when watching a show and the remote stops responding, it will play to the end and freeze on the last frame till rebooted.
Peter
Right, I'm giving that a go. It froze up again before at TiVo Central, and the menus continued to animate.Quote:
Originally Posted by petestrash
What program is best for this?Quote:
Originally Posted by petestrash
Hi,
Drive manufacturers usually provide a free utility to do this. For example Seagate provide Seatools:Quote:
What program is best for this?
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
Cheers, Dave.
Dave is right, it's best using the drive makers program. Though some bad sectors wont mean a bad drive, TiVo wont map around them.Quote:
Originally Posted by woz_331
As an aside all the background videos are also streamed from the hard drive, so again anything serious was going on you should see problems.