I ended up getting a new hard drive from DVRUpgrade. Unfortunately, it is now stuck at the Guided Setup. Once the unit gets to that point, it asks you to Select Guided Setup from the Remote. However the remote does not have any affect on the Tivo. I did try several remotes and reset one to the factory default of zero.
Luckily, I live in Chicago only a couple of miles from DVRUpgrade so I brought the unit to them. They confirmed the problem and Lou said they had only seen a problem like that once before. He said that when the hard drive died, it may have caused a power surge and impacted something else. They said they would take a further look at in the morning and see if it is possible to be repaired. Only reason to repair it is because it does have Lifetime Service on it. Thanks, Jay On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:13 AM, MegaZone wrote: > Once upon a time Jay Abraham shaped the electrons to say... > > I went to watch some recorded shows on the Tivo this morning. When > > TV turned on it looked like it was frozen on a Live TV picture and > > the remote could not control the TV. I unplugged unit and tried to > > repower but it goes to grey screen saying powering up and never > > leaves it. > > If you actually get a screen with text the board is likely OK. When a > TiVo boots there are a couple of boot screens that come up. The very > first one is from the BIOS on the board itself. The next screen that > loads comes from the drive. So if you get the first screen and it > never gets past there that's pretty much always a drive failure. > > First thing to do is open it up and check all the cable connections. > And you might be able to tell if the drive spins up at all - either by > sound or vibration. Just be careful when working inside with power > connected - the power supply is exposed and can seriously ruin your > day. > > -MZ > -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
