On Wednesday my Tivo started acting odd. Mary Beth was at home watching live TV and flipping channels when suddenly all of the outputs went black. Menus still appeared and worked correctly and the Tivo lights also worked correctly. The red light still appeared whenever a show was scheduled to record. However, when it recorded a show it would have no length. When a program was selected to play it would display a black screen and immediately pop up the end of program message.
I used the system reboot option hoping that would fix the problem. It appeared that nothing had changed. I later found out that it did begin recording after the system reboot but did not allow display.
After looking online I found that you should "Power Cycle". This is very simple. Unplug your Tivo unit from the wall for 20 seconds and then plug it back in. After doing this everything worked correctly. I was now able to view recordings and live TV. This is when I found out that programs recorded after the system reboot could also be viewed.
Posted by Jeff at March 17, 2005 12:53 PM