Replies to Pete and David...
Thanks David - I might give that a try over the weekend (if my hard disk turns up today that is :mad: )
In answer to Pete...
Exact symptoms are....
- First time I noticed any issue was getting home to find a picture on screen but no lights on TiVo and remote wouldn't work.
- First reboot (which took a very very long time) enabled the remote to work and the live tv guide was back working. 10 mins later however the picture froze and another reboot was required.
- Second reboot and it started working again but this time it froze briefly for a few minutes and then carried on again but was now playing the show that was on about 2 mins behind the actual live broadcast which was on in another room.
- Third, foruth, fifth, six etc etc reboots and you get anywhere between 10 mins viewing to an hours before the picture locks up and requires a reboot again. During this time any commands sent from remote get a very very delayed response ie: push TiVo button and see the "Now Playing" menu about 20-30 secs later.
- By rebooting the TiVo and leaving it at the default startup menu I have been able to connect from pc and transfer some video from it - managed to get 12Gb's worth on Wednesday night before I had to restart it again. If I try to do/watch anything on the TiVo while I am doing this however results in a speed up in the "picture freeze/general lockup" process.
- Have only been able to get TiVo to complete one successful daily call since this started and it took about 2 hours.
I haven't been able to get TiVo to stay up for long enough yet to get Live8 off it - that will take a long time as it is about 23Gb and the TiVo keeps freezing before I can get the whole lot off (managed 7Gb last night but because I have to keep starting the transfer from the start again each time it drops the connection I doubt I am going to get it this way).
What does everyone think - hard disk or something else?
I know we've all had the ocasional freeze up that gets fixed by a reboot but this is dragging on and there happens to be a big game of Rugger on this weekend that I was hoping to record and watch at my leisure when I wake up on Sunday...dammitt!! :mad: :( How did we ever get on before TiVo?????...hahaha