I have two 160Gig TiVo’s one with 1T ESata drive. I have home networking setup with dedicated machine all on same subnet with IINET internet via NAT router.

I have a couple of problems.

Everything was working fine for 2-3 months but now going down hill.

Wondering if other people have seen these issues.

1) Caspa does not work on either TiVo you select it a blue screen comes up the white writing comes up and then back to the Tivo main menu after 2 second. Even after a reboot does not work.

2) The tivo with the 1T Esata Drive keeps losing the other TiVo in the now playing list. but the Dedicated PC with the TiVo software on it does not disappear. Takes about 24 hrs. to disappear. reboot and all come back OK. The other tivo works fine keeping the other TiVo in the now playing list and the Dedicated PC is showing as well.

3) Every now and then the tivo with the 1T Esata Drive drive records a corrupted show. The video is all garbled but the audio is perfect. If you go to live tv picture is perfect. The other TIVO records the show perfectly. Doing a reboot seems to fix the problem for about a week.

I rang technical support and got a complete run around after no returned phone calls eventually got through to someone. All they could suggest is the signal strength. He could not give me a reason why this would only affect 1 TiVo and why this would effect caspa.

In the end I was told to send back the TiVo with the Esata Drive. Just does not should like hardware fault to me.

I then asked how I can back up the season passes. I was told because I hand the home networking package and the Plus pack I could go in there are back up the configuration. Well I cannot find this. How do you backup your tivo for warranty replacement? What issues is having the 1T drive added. I assume I need to reattach the drive before the restore??


Any experiences would be appreciated.