S2 TiVo hangs at "starting up" screen

(E.L. Lambert) shaped the electrons to say:
Wonderful. I had the 160 hour unit and paid the $300 for a lifetime
product license. I guess now that my piece of crap TiVo has only
lasted 7 months, I'm SOL on the $600 for the product and service and
would have to buy everything new?

That's a pretty silly thing to presume.

You can have it repaired and maintain the lifetime service.

Or you can just repair it yourself, if it is the drive. Re-imaging
and/or replacing a drive is very easy. Or you can buy ready made
drives that you just drop in. Weaknees.com and PTVUpgrade.com sell
upgrade and repair kits, and PTVUpgrade.com also has the InstantCake
CD which is a bootable CD with all the tools and the image needed to
image a new drive.

If you're going to dump the unit I'll take it and even pay the
shipping. A few minutes work and I'd have another unit. :-)

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(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

--
Rich Carreiro

(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

--
Rich Carreiro

Rich Carreiro wrote in message ...
(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship
as soon as I receive your $600. What payment method will you be
using?

Rich Carreiro wrote in message ...
(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship
as soon as I receive your $600. What payment method will you be
using?

(E.L. Lambert) writes:

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship

Given that you keep crowing about how you're going
to throw it out, it's obviously worth $0 to you.
I'll give you $15 for it.

--
Rich Carreiro

(E.L. Lambert) writes:

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship

Given that you keep crowing about how you're going
to throw it out, it's obviously worth $0 to you.
I'll give you $15 for it.

--
Rich Carreiro

On 29 Aug 2004 09:14:21 -0700, (E.L. Lambert)
wrote:

Rich Carreiro wrote in message ...
(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship
as soon as I receive your $600. What payment method will you be
using?

Have you tried hooking up a USB cable to find out if the factory
diagnostics work?

-IB

On 29 Aug 2004 09:14:21 -0700, (E.L. Lambert)
wrote:

Rich Carreiro wrote in message ...
(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship
as soon as I receive your $600. What payment method will you be
using?

Have you tried hooking up a USB cable to find out if the factory
diagnostics work?

-IB

* E.L. Lambert wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
Rich Carreiro wrote in message ...
(E.L. Lambert) writes:

Well forget that; the Tivo was a nice useful product but I don't have
the bucks to shell out $600 twice a year. In the garbage bin it goes,

I'll buy it off you.

Excellent. I'll be glad to be rid of this POS product. I will ship
as soon as I receive your $600. What payment method will you be
using?

If it walks like a troll and talks like a troll...
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