Rebooting Problems

[TDW]

I have looked and searched all over.

I am still having reboot problems. My DSR6000 was working for 6 months with no problems. About 6 weeks ago it started rebooting every few hours then every 10-15 min. I haven't used it or even had it plugged in for the last 2 weeks. Now it won't get past the Welcome screen.

I have checked all the cables and checked the voltage. The voltage to the hard drives I adjusted to 5.05. When I check the voltage on the fan plug it is 6.03 to 6.09, is this normal? I have also checked the voltage at the end of the cable coming from the power supply. I have checked it on the mother board side and the readings from the back of the unit to the front are:

pin one 0.3
pin two 30.5
pin three 5.08
pin four 0.3
pin five 3.40


are these normal? can someone tell me what readings they get from a unit that does not reboot all the time?

Someone please help before this thing hits someone in the head after I toss it out the window.

[superzap]

The fan plug voltage is normal. Don't know about the others.

Have you tried replacing the hard drive? I think this is the most likely cause of failure.

[TDW]

I swapped a HD that I had from someone elses Directivo I upgraded in March with 2-80 Gig HD's. No luck.

The HD came from a brand new sealed box DSR6000.

[RobK]

I have 2 Philips and one Hughes DirecTivos, and both Philips are acting strange in the past week. One tries to reboot every 3 - 4 hours, hangs at "welcome screen", must unplug to reboot it. The other Philips keeps going into Demo mode (I believe it is caused by something I loaded to the HU). Both are extremed, never had a problem until now, running since December '01. Maybe something strange is happening, or it could be just coincidence. BTW, the Hughes is legit and subbed to DTV and Tivo, that one blew a power supply 2 months ago, replaced it with one from Sony. I LOVE my Tivo's but I think they are poorly designed and nothing but trouble.
One other thing, my reboot problem was helped by raising the unit on wood blocks and blowing a 50mm fan on the outside of the case. We shouldn't have to do this!
Rob

[superzap]

I suppose you tried reseating the white ribbon cable connecting the power supply to the main board? Also try replacing the IDE cable.

[TDW]

Tried both of those ideas, does the length of the IDE cable matter? The one I used is 36" long.

Thanks for trying!! Any other ideas?

[chainsawbob]

my t60 started doing the same thing after it recieved
a software update over the phone line.
I have re extremed and touched the SubTest.
I'll let u all know in a few days if that solved the prob.

[Lou69Fla]

My TIVO T60 hangs on re-boot started this morning. Tivo is touch but I had to act the P4 card on 7/28 DTV did not adived on getting the tivo subscription..............

[TDW]

I have a new idea. I did my upgrade when the extreme 2.5 first came out. I don't think I have logs disabled. Was that something I needed to do? could that be the problem? The last time I was able to get my DSR to boot all the way, I erased most of the movies I had on it. I wanted to keep all my music stuff so I could at least record it on to mini disc.

Anyway, do I need to do something about the log files? If I can get my music out of it I will be starting over anyway.

[superzap]

Don't think excessively large log files would cause the kind of problem you're having, but do a ls -la /var/log and see how big the files are. Suggest you use logsNull to keep the log files in check.

[chainsawbob]

:(

I think that my WD 120 gig drive is
dying, this morning i woke up to the
tivo froze on the please wait screen
and unpluging then pluging the tivo
in wasn't getting it to boot, so im doing
a bad block check right now then ill
zero out all the data and try to re Xtreme

:confused:

[chainsawbob]

went to bb and got an maxtor 80 gig loaded xtreme and
every thing is fine now no reboots for 2 days.:)