Just my Luck!

[Meinfarr]

Yesterday after reading and reading I did the following to my Philips 6000 Directivo:

Using Hinesdale how to; I added a 120 gig harddrive as my "B" drive to my Directivo and everything worked fine.

It showed up to 146 hours of recording time available.. I was happy as could be.

Later in the evening....menus seemed to get slower and slower. Graphics took forever to load.... then it went into a reboot loop...first it would get to the final step loading satellite info...and get to 93% then reboot..over and over.....

I then tried unpluging and left for 30 min then tried again...Same result...

Now the hard drives will not even spin-up...if the drives are not connected to the motherboard they will spin (ribbon cable only fits in one direction so yes it is attached correctly)....if ribbon cable is plugged to mb they will not spin..tried both drives seperately and same thing. Cooling fan spins up so I know the mb is getting power..

Any Suggestions?

Can someone recommend a good repair service company?

[jim5359]

Have you double checked the jumpers on the drives? Make sure Drive A is set as master and Drive B is set as slave.

You might try restoring a backup to the A drive and see if you can get it operating as before. If that works, perhaps something is wrong with the new drive.

[Meinfarr]

Jim,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I put both drives as they are currently configured back into my PC and they show up in the bios as thier correct size and configuration. They both spin up correctly in the PC.

I am afraid something on the tivo mb is fried!


Can a person buy a new Tivo mb?

[SR712]

Call truettelectronics.com and see what they have to say.

[mrblack51]

Originally posted by Meinfarr
Can a person buy a new Tivo mb?

good luck. many have tried...most end up bying a new unit.

[DarkWing]

You can send it in for out of waranty repair with the manufacturer. I did this for a Sony, they replaced the MB, $70 plus shipping.