Unusual Series 3 Tivo motherboard

[andymoz]

Here's an unusual motherboard I haven't seen before .Has a momentary switch near Prom(which already had a socket) Might have been a special developers board? Or is this common?

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[Darren King]

It's a reset switch. Give it a press :)

[viewer]

Does it do anything special?

[Darren King]

By itself no. Just resets the TiVo without pulling the plug. Can be useful if you are looking for some bootstrap code or something that happens on startup.

[andymoz]

Hi Darren,
Apparently it was an early test unit supplied by Hybrid TV in Sydney,hence the pre soldered socket and reset button.

[Darren King]

Yes they would have been playing around with things. I put a button on a couple of mine a while ago when testing.