No lights would most likely be a power supply issue. Given it has a warranty I would be waiting this one out until you get a response from TiVo.
Here it is Friday night and no Tivo for the weekend. Last night I sat down to watch the news (time shifted of course) and found the front of my Tivo totally dark. No lights no reaction to remote nothing. I tried another powerpoint and still black.
I registered the problem with Tivo last night expecting a call today and at this point I have heard nothing.
I thought I would just throw this post out there just in case there is an obvious fix or something easy to try. After years with my Series 1 (given away now to a new home) I don't know how to watch live TV any more. Last night giving it a try my partner picked up the remote to go back and see something missed then we both laughed at the mistake. Now I am going to cry.
Thanks,
No lights would most likely be a power supply issue. Given it has a warranty I would be waiting this one out until you get a response from TiVo.
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Thanks Darren - that is what I was afraid of. Think we'll go to the movies.
CParrill, I have a spare S1 Tivo for sale if you are interested. Make an offer?
(I think it only has an 80gb drive, but does have a turbonet card)
Thats like saying... "I see your Ferrari has broken down, would you like to buy my Hyundai Excel?"
;-p
Jeremy, My old S1 Tivo is just across the street with my neighbors - it had a 200 gb drive. I've been there done that and was looking for the 2 tuners and Digital out of the box.
Just an update on the criminal HTS service. Today is one week and counting and HTS hasn't yet organized a replacement machine (still asking me what the problem is for the 5th time in the last 7 days). If this was my S1, problem determination would have been done overnight with the help of the forums then Darren would have probably had a power supply to send to me or something. I would have been up and running by last weekend.
TiVo HD with dual HD tuners and now 1 TB disk upgrade
Free to a good home;
Sony SVR-2000 series 1 TiVo with Seagate 320GB disk, TurboNZet card, internal PAL Tuner, stereo sound and second A/V input
Burnie, Good idea. I took the Tivo back to Harvey Norman this morning. They told me they couldn't accept broken Tivos back and I would have to work through the Tivo.com process. After telling them that the Tivo process was totally unsatisfactory and telling them that I was reporting my experience in the forums, they did offer to contact Tivo for me on Monday. This is not the help I wanted (I wanted a replacement machine) but I won't turn down the help.
A second weekend without Tivo.
TiVo HD with dual HD tuners and now 1 TB disk upgrade
Free to a good home;
Sony SVR-2000 series 1 TiVo with Seagate 320GB disk, TurboNZet card, internal PAL Tuner, stereo sound and second A/V input
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