For some time now TiVo's been in MegaBitchGoddess mode where it would freeze, stutter, pixilated and/or completely ignore the remote at the same time. Two weeks ago we sat down for Revelations and it was completely unmatchable through TiVo. It would play for 2 seconds and freeze for 3. Finally I just gave up and unplugged it.
After surfing the TiVo community boards, I wasn't so sure it was a dying hard drive. The last patch apparently introduced some kind of bug that was causing freezing, particularly when you changed the channel. But my issues were extreme. Last year, when I thought this was happening, I managed to backup the hard drive to a new, bigger one. But I didn't install it, preferring to let the installed drive fail first.
This weekend I finally gave up. Not having TiVo for the last 2 weeks was rough, and if it wasn't the hard drive, it was worth finding out. So I ripped it open and replaced the drive with the one I backed up last August.
And Presto! It's working fine so far, plus, I just about doubled the storage capacity. It spend most of Sunday updating the software (it had like 9 months of changed to catch up on). And we lost a couple of things that I was saving - we never did get to see The Peacekeeper Wars :(
But TiVo back and life is finally worth living again!
posted by Evil Wayne @ 9:50 AM
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