Get Well Soon, TiVo
My TiVo has been acting a bit fishy for the last week or so. A little sluggish in the menus at times; an occaisional stutter or lag during playback. I’ve been meaning to reset it to let it clean up its swap partition.
Tonight when I flipped over to my TiVo, it appeared to be paused 45 minutes into a hour recording. This seemed odd, since I’m the only one who uses the TiVo and I’m pretty sure I didn’t leave anything paused. Attempting to play the paused program yielded no change. The menu button did bring up the menu, eventually… overlaid on the paused show. I tried the live tv button, and changing the channels. The Live TV guide worked, but the paused program never changed. Eventually, I went to the menu and rebooted the TiVo.
After a brief pause, I saw a graphical TiVo start up screen. A minute later, this changed to a “Almost ready” prompt. Shortly after this I got a new message, which pleases me not.
A severe error has occurred.
Please leave the Receiver plugged in and connected to the phone line for the next three hours while the Receiver attempts to repair itself.
DO NOT UNPLUG OR RESTART THE RECEIVER.
If, after three hours, the Receiver does not restart itself, call Customer Care at 1-877-367-8486.
It’s been about 20 or 30 minutes. The message hasn’t changed. At first I heard lots of hard drive noises, but now all is silent. I haven’t seen the yellow light indicating that E.T. is phoning home either. I’ll probably be in bed before the 3 hours is up. Come morning, I may have an expensive door stop.
Get well soon, TiVo. I guess if I can’t watch TiVo I’ll just surf the web.
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Is it fixed?
Ok.. you have us waiting. Did it fix itself?