Help! Phantom Overheating?!?

[keljoen]

I beg for help from the gurus of this forum. My Series 1 TiVo [Philips/HDR212] has been running fine in my A/V cabinet for the last three years. Last week, it showed an "internal temperature too high" alarm. Since then, I cannot reboot the TiVo without immediately getting this shutdown alarm.

First of all, the cooling fan does run. Since the first alarm, I have:
1. unplugged the unit for literally a week - no change.
2. pulled the unit to try it away from all other components - no change.
3. yanked off the cover to restart - no change.
4. Carefully removed all dust from the inside - no change.
5. Pointed a house fan directly across the top of the uncovered TiVo - still no change and the HD is cool to the touch! There is no way that the board was in an overtemperature state. So I don't think that a bigger internal fan is the answer either.

Do I have no other choice than to try to find TiVo service? I would love to hear some feedback on something I might have missed.

Thanks, keljoen :confused:

[eastwind]

Might be as simple as the heat sensor burning itself out. Don't know if you can fix it or not, but you might find some more information in the Broken TiVos-Hardware Repair forum.

ew

[PortlandPaw]

A way to fix the symptom but not the disease is to disable the startup of the heat sensor monitor. Somewhere in rc.sysinit is the command to start this -- can't remember it exactly, but it's pretty obvious, something like tempmon.

If you can't access the file with ftp or telnet, you may have to pull the drive to edit rc.sysinit and comment out (#) the startup line.

[keljoen]

Thanks for the help so far... but I have a very basic question...

I pulled the drive and connected it up to 2 different PCs as slave drives. I could see the drive, but it no mapping or access to files. Is the TiVo drive formatted Linux? Is that why FAT/NTFS systems can't talk to it?

I don't know how to connect via telnet. My TiVo has the serial cable on the back side that I use for an external modem. Is it as simple as connecting it to the serial port of my PC and using telnet program?

Thanks, KelJoeN

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Nevermind - I'm educating myself thru all the posts about the subject. Sorry about the Newbie request....!