TCD140060 Upgrade issue: DVRplayground

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January 18, 2005 12:29 PM

greylensman said:

I downloaded and burned the ISO for my standalone Series 2 TCD140060, but cannot complete the bake process. I have everything connected per the instructions, but I always get the following: when the bake process has reached 465 of 816 meg decompressed, the process hangs and the % compression cycles through a series of percentages going up to 4000% down to 0%. I've tried via the automated procedure as well as the manual command line instructions I found in a different thread.

So far, I've tried this process on the following:
An AMD Athlon 1700+
AMD Athlon 500
Pentium III 550

I've tried using several known good 80GB Western Digital drives that I have on the shelf.

Any suggestions?

Seems really odd. Have you tried re-burning the CD, perhaps at a slower speed or with a different media type?

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greylensman

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January 18, 2005 4:19 PM

I tried re-burning the CD at 8x. I've used two different types of media. As a last resort, I mounted the ISO image as a device on my linux box and attempted executing the commands manually. I get the same result. Here is a sample:

Starting restore
Uncompressed backup size: 816 megabytes
Restoring 465 of 816 megabytes (57.03%) (2230.08% compression)

It freezes here forever.

Any other suggestions?

greylensman

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January 18, 2005 5:45 PM

Finally it worked

I finally got the drive to bake, but I had to download the image again. It looks like my original download was corrupted in some fashion. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on a powering up screen, so it's back to the drawing board.

Lou Jacob

DVRupgrade

January 18, 2005 6:34 PM

greylensman said:

I finally got the drive to bake, but I had to download the image again. It looks like my original download was corrupted in some fashion. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck on a powering up screen, so it's back to the drawing board.

sounds like you are getting closer; I was going to suggest a re-download, but glad you went ahead and did that. might be worth checking jumpers and cable connections at this point, but it sounds like you are almost there...

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Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
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January 19, 2005 4:50 PM

Close, but no cigar

Okay, I checked the cables and jumpers. I replaced the IDE cable and seated it firmly. I re-baked from the re-downloaded ISO again. I'm still getting nothing but the grey Powering Up screen. Is the TiVo just a goner, or am I missing something else?

Lou Jacob

DVRupgrade

January 19, 2005 4:53 PM

greylensman said:

Okay, I checked the cables and jumpers. I replaced the IDE cable and seated it firmly. I re-baked from the re-downloaded ISO again. I'm still getting nothing but the grey Powering Up screen. Is the TiVo just a goner, or am I missing something else?

Was your TiVo working prior to the upgrade? Do you have your original drive to try out in the unit? Are you sure the IDE cable is connected correctly (blue connector to the system board)?

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InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

greylensman

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January 19, 2005 5:20 PM

The Tivo wasn't working prior to the upgrade. I was trying this path to resurrect it. With the old drive, I was frozen at the Powering Up screen as well. The cables, both old and new, were seated correctly.

Lou Jacob

DVRupgrade

January 19, 2005 5:37 PM

greylensman said:

The Tivo wasn't working prior to the upgrade. I was trying this path to resurrect it. With the old drive, I was frozen at the Powering Up screen as well. The cables, both old and new, were seated correctly.

Would have been good to know that at the beginning of this thread... How do you know that:

1) the drive that you are using isn't defective?
2) the TiVo that you are using isn't defective?

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InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

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