JGTN: Oops sorry I didn't actually mean to just post that. Am a newby at this forum stuff. hit enter before I realised i needed to scroll down and put an explanation.
Have called telecom and was told that as i am no longer a telecom customer they couldnt help. I will try again. The Tivo is off powering up again after working for almost an hour and a half.
yeah that was the answer I got with mine at the time. I wasnt a Telecom customer and they told me because of that they cant help. I ended up quitting them since no help. Actually glad to hear I am not the only one they wouldnt help since not a customer
HTPC AMD A4-5300 cpu, Gigabyte ga2fa75m-d3h motherboard, , 4GB DDR3 ram, onboard graphics. Hauppuage HVR 3300 tuner, Antec 2480B case, Windows 7 home premium 64 bit using media center
I'm glad I stumbled on this. My in-laws Tivo started to persistently reboot towards the end of its warranty period last year, so took back to Noel Leeming. Some 6 to 8 weeks later they finally got a replacement, but the remote was dud - went through all the options to reset etc, then got a replacement remote which worked fine. After that, within a week, the same reboot problem is happening again. It takes ages for the thing to boot up which makes it even more frustrating.
The whole process involved giving them a temporary replacement (a DishTV model) twice, the first of which did not work because it actually lacked a hard drive. The whole process has been pretty poor.
I read on one of the Magic TV threads that there was a freeview related problem causing reboots.. what do people think about this?
I'm not aware of any broad free to air problems causing that sort of issue (and I would have heard about it loudly ;) )
Constant rebooting is indicative of a hardware fault, though I'd be willing to consider a low quality signal causing system stability issues (although unlikely)
Have a peak in System Information, diagnostics, check out the signal strength, MER and verbati error rate
MER above 250 is preferred, and the lower the error rate the better.
Too strong a signal (EG after an amplifier and showing 100) has also been known to cause weirdness.
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