TIVO turned itself off. Why?
 

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at what
was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure out why my
TIVO was unresponsive. All other devices were on, displaying their
clocks or LED power indicators. Then I noticed the LED for the TIVO
power was off.

I didn't think it was possible for the TIVO to simply be off or turn
itself off. I certainly didn't do anything to it. Its been running
fine for months without any interference from me other than scheduling
or watching programming. I unplugged all the stuff (I have everything
plugged into an Isobar surge supressor) and rebooted it, whereupon the
TIVO started normally and is now functioning as it should.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?

While strolling through alt.video.ptv.tivo, Lazarus Long was
overheard plotting:

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at
what was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure
out why my TIVO was unresponsive. All other devices were on,
displaying their clocks or LED power indicators. Then I noticed
the LED for the TIVO power was off.

I didn't think it was possible for the TIVO to simply be off or
turn itself off. I certainly didn't do anything to it. Its been
running fine for months without any interference from me other
than scheduling or watching programming. I unplugged all the
stuff (I have everything plugged into an Isobar surge supressor)
and rebooted it, whereupon the TIVO started normally and is now
functioning as it should.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?


No, sounds like some one put it on Standby which exhibits the behavior
you mention.

--
David

In article , Lazarus Long
wrote:

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at what
was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure out why my
TIVO was unresponsive. All other devices were on, displaying their
clocks or LED power indicators. Then I noticed the LED for the TIVO
power was off.

I didn't think it was possible for the TIVO to simply be off or turn
itself off. I certainly didn't do anything to it. Its been running
fine for months without any interference from me other than scheduling
or watching programming. I unplugged all the stuff (I have everything
plugged into an Isobar surge supressor) and rebooted it, whereupon the
TIVO started normally and is now functioning as it should.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?


Overheating would be one reason. Have you checked the internal temp?
I don't know why else your unit would crash and not automatically
reboot.

If you're the same Lazarus Long who's been knocking around the net for
umpteen years, BTW, best regards.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:43:26 GMT, SINNER wrote:

While strolling through alt.video.ptv.tivo, Lazarus Long was
overheard plotting:

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at
what was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure
out why my TIVO was unresponsive.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?


No, sounds like some one put it on Standby which exhibits the behavior
you mention.

That's simple enough. My TIVO is working fine now.

Lazarus Long seemed to utter in news:[email protected]
4ax.com:

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at what
was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure out why my
TIVO was unresponsive. All other devices were on, displaying their
clocks or LED power indicators. Then I noticed the LED for the TIVO
power was off.

I didn't think it was possible for the TIVO to simply be off or turn
itself off. I certainly didn't do anything to it. Its been running
fine for months without any interference from me other than scheduling
or watching programming. I unplugged all the stuff (I have everything
plugged into an Isobar surge supressor) and rebooted it, whereupon the
TIVO started normally and is now functioning as it should.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?

Could it have overheated?

-- TRW
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If it was in standby you would still hear the drive recording and possibly
the fan.

"SINNER" wrote in message
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While strolling through alt.video.ptv.tivo, Lazarus Long was
overheard plotting:

When I got home last night I turned on the TV to take a look at
what was on or had been recorded. For a while I couldn't figure
out why my TIVO was unresponsive. All other devices were on,
displaying their clocks or LED power indicators. Then I noticed
the LED for the TIVO power was off.

I didn't think it was possible for the TIVO to simply be off or
turn itself off. I certainly didn't do anything to it. Its been
running fine for months without any interference from me other
than scheduling or watching programming. I unplugged all the
stuff (I have everything plugged into an Isobar surge supressor)
and rebooted it, whereupon the TIVO started normally and is now
functioning as it should.

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?


No, sounds like some one put it on Standby which exhibits the behavior
you mention.

--
David

While strolling through alt.video.ptv.tivo, Rick was overheard
plotting:

If it was in standby you would still hear the drive recording and
possibly the fan.

He didnt mention that he didnt hear them.

--
David

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:09:54 -0500, "Dr. Personality"
wrote:


Overheating would be one reason. Have you checked the internal temp?
I don't know why else your unit would crash and not automatically
reboot.

I didn't think to look at internal temp 'cause it's always "good"
sometimes around 37, others, 41

And no I don't remember listening for the fan or harddrive sounds, I
only noted the LED not being on.


If you're the same Lazarus Long who's been knocking around the net for
umpteen years, BTW, best regards.

I have in fact been using the internet from before there was very much
Web content, and remember using a text based newsreader. I have
always called myself Lazarus Long.

But I think there may be more than one Lazarus Long since Robert
Heinlein's work was quite popular.

Lazarus Long wrote:

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?

You could enable backdoors then use Clear-Enter-Clear-ThumbsUp to
view the Linux log files.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...threadid=26530
-Joe

Thanks for the tip

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:35:59 GMT, Joe Smith
wrote:

Lazarus Long wrote:

So what happened? Why would the TIVO power itself down?

You could enable backdoors then use Clear-Enter-Clear-ThumbsUp to
view the Linux log files.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...threadid=26530
-Joe