June 18, 2005 11:08 AM

stasamation said:

Yesterday, I installed the PTVnet 250GB hard drive in my DirecTV/TiVo HDVR2. Everything worked perfectly at first, but after about 2 hours the background animation in the TiVo menus went black -- and when I went to Live TV, video is black as well.

Audio still works. Channel banner still appears. I can see the playback bar and it responds to rewind and fastforward commands normally -- just the video is black on ALL channels.

I tried playing back a recorded show -- also black.

Menus all work -- but the background animations are all missing. The menus appear over a black screen.

I rebooted via the menu -- video came back after the reboot and everything worked perfectly for about 2 hours. Then -- same thing happened again. I was watching live TV, and video froze. When I pressed Live TV again to switch to the other tuner, the video is black. Went to menus -- all menus work, but backgrounds are black. No video until I rebooted again (this time by unplugging for 15 seconds.)

After the hard reboot, everything works fine again for a couple of hours, then while watching a recorded show, the video goes black again. I do know this show got recorded properly, because I have already watched it all the way through without any problems.

I searched very carefully through all the forums, but so far have not found a mention of this issue. If anybody can offer some ideas I would be very grateful.

I am having the same problem. I have a Samsung SIR-4040R. Replaced hard drive with 120 GB WD drive. Installation went fine. Powered on unit and setup was a breeze. I get channel 100 with video, but all the other channels are black. All with sound. The difference with my problem is that I get no video at all to start. Reboot and same problem. Have you found a resolution? I would really like to get this fixed. Thanks!

June 18, 2005 12:40 PM

I checked all the connections and reran sat setup to make sure everything was correct and it was. Put the original tivo hard drive back in and it worked fine. All channels and video. I also don't have the locals. I read the threads where the locals need to be updated. Should I call direct and have them update? Could that be a problem?

June 18, 2005 1:35 PM

OK. I didn't call Directv, but the locals updated. Still no picture, just sound on all channels except 100. Do you think I need to rebake the hard drive? I have tried everything to no avail. The original Tivo hard drive still works fine. Thanks for the quick response.

June 18, 2005 4:02 PM

I know about the local channels. What I am having problems with is I am getting a black screen on all channels. There is sound, but no video. I change HD to the original drive, and it works fine.

June 18, 2005 4:30 PM

I also did that. I am using the s-video out. Is there a way to tell the tivo that is the output that is being used? It is weird cause channel 100 is working fine, but none of the rest.