One thing I've discovered when configuring and re-configuring my TiVo is that much patience is needed. I bought a Humax 300 hour machine a few weeks ago. I was in the process of going from Dish network to the local phone company's DSL Video service so I first set it up for Dishnet. Seemed to work fine, even worked on the DSL broadband for program updates and such.
Then I had the phone company's DSL Video installed and attemped to switch program guides. Holy cow! That turned into a nightmare! It stopped talking to the TiVo servers over the broadband connection. When I tried changing the channel guide to the new service it seemed to lock up at the "preparing" stage in the phone call procedure. I tried pulling the power plug and re-booting several times. Eventually it came up with a "yellow screen of death" and said it had detected a serious problem and was trying to correct it. It said this would take 3 hours! I think it was re-building its operating system from scratch. Finally it finished rebuilding itself and I re-configured it from the beginning. Now all is well and it's stable. The point of this long winded thing is to say that we should be patient with a TiVo when configuring. I think it was not actually locked up at the dial-in "preparing" stage. After the total rebuilding job I just let it prepare all it wanted. After something like 10 minutes it finally dialed out and completed the setup normally. There are several points in the setup procedure that it is "preparing" or "organizing". This takes so long that we're temped to think it's locked up and so we pull the power plug and try to reset. Don't do it! Just go get a cup of coffee and let it play. It might take it a half hour or more to finish up. Pulling the power at this point just screws it up. The TiVo does it's normal job very well, but some of the configuration can take a rediculous amount of time. After it downloads a new channel lineup for example; it takes 4-8 hours to "index". Guess we just have to leave it alone until it's ready to play. Hope this is of some help. Does this jive with your experiences with it? Dan in Minnesota. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/7zgKlB/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/eCTplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tivocentral/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
