weird picture fir my tivo

[Darren King]

Sounds like a dodgy SAA7114H video chip to me. Not uncommon.

Anyone out there have any nowhow on how to get these checked out or an anyone reommend a plae i could take it?

Did you happen to notice my signature? (hint: read the coloured text at the bottom of this post).

I offer to either fix your board or alternatively outright exchange your defective for a good one. If you have the tools and knowhow on how to extract the board you can either send me the defective for repair/exchange or I can send you a good one and you send back the defective.

That's about as much as I can advise and offer. A general TV Repair place won't probably even know what a TiVo is let alone know what to look for or have stock of the necessary parts.