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could be a bad serial port. who hacked your unit?

Sorry, cant respond to pm or email from the hospital

Definitely be wary of the temp of the tivo, enclosed places are deadly to tivos if not setup right...........

Reseat the ribbon cable from the supply to the mainboard, and all the other connectors. I would first unhook the sat feeds, and any other components you have hooked in/out to the tivo, and leave...

The ONE for all 6130 (I think thats the #) is the cheapest all around good remote for these things, you can find info on them on here and at TCF......

Doesnt sound too good unfortunately, when theyre doing the black/white dance they are usually doorstops/parts machines. I sent you info on what you can do via email........

Look in the how-to above and do the obvious, ie reseat all ribbons, especially the parlex, and all power connectors. If possible, test the unit with another drive. THe biggest two causes are the...

Doesnt sound good, 99% chance its dead, you need to post your logs after deleting them, but thats usually a sure fire doorstop sign.........

Everybody is looking for dtivos for cheap, you gotta either sub, or pay the ebay piper........

BTW, why are you fdisking anything?? Throw that in the trash, you have no need for it ever, you dont format a drive in a tivo, it does it with the install, dont fdisk a tivo drive at all, UNLESS...

HUH??? when is restores the image and cleans up, your DONE. You just follow the umount commands, or control alt delete and stick in your tivo. Theres no manual mounting to be done with it. THose...

not to mention ser1 to ser2 differences..........

In a ser1, there is no heatsinks on the chips. In a ser1, the hotspots are the tuners, The hard drive, and the power supply. You can get a heatsink cooler chipset at compusa for 10 bucks, I use...

Me too, Me too, Me too............ Right now I get a new unit, and part it out :( They are worth more in parts than the 99 bucks anyway, just hook up for a month and cancel it, no fees........

You may be better off just getting an adapter for it, its easier than splicing when you gotta work on it later on. Test with a meter if your unsure, but yellow is 12v, red is 5v, the two blacks are...

Two notes. If putting dual drives in a tivo, it REALLY helps to get different brand drives. They will have slightly different startup times, and that helps the supply alot. The biggest drain on a...

there is ALOT of info on dialing problems at TCF, more than here. If shes got dsl, you may wanna opt to using a turbonet to use broadband. I ahve seen alot of connection problems, if the modem isnt...

depends on what you wanna do with it. you could use any file and then dial in to get up to speed, but if you want a hacked OS you need 2.5 then 2.5.2 or 3.1 depending on your preference. Best way...

works with any bootable linux cd.........

It sounds like you have a panel problem. First, RESEAT ALL the connectors, every one you can find. Then pop off the front panel (may be 2 screws holding on, usually not) and take the ribbon off the...

follow Captain's advice exactly, thats your most likely culprit, and if you post again try to be a little better in the way you describe the problem, your post is ver hard to understand.............

Good job getting it working, its kinda nice when you do it yourself..........its the satisfaction of it....

Yep it does. We already know the unit powers up, so its safe to say for now the supply does at least that. A single bad cap or IC or whatever can short out a specific circuit and hold down any...

Call it a mainboard/motherboard so its easier to know what were talking about. If only it were possible to buy a new mainboard. Basically you can either fix it or sell it and replace it, its not...

Looks like you have a failure on the baord, just because the drive powers up means nothing, its only telling you "part" of the tivo is working. You gotta ge in there with a voltmeter and get the...