OH NOZ I AM DENIED MY MEDIA FIX

[rmd]

bah. my tivo appears to have toasted itself. i assume it's the drive(s). i had the GSOD (green screen of doom) the other morning, so i let it sit all day and then overnight and now it's stuck in a cycle where it restarts, gets the GSOD after a few moments of the "wait a few more moments" screen, then sits at the GSOD for a while and restarts. lather rinse repeat.

there's only one thing on the tivo that is functionally irreplacable, and honestly, it serves me right for not dumping it to tape/cd/dvd/whatever before this.

i'm letting the tivo cool for a while to see if it's capable of coming back long enough to grab the one or two things i want from it.

next up, investigating INSTACAKE.

edited to add: also, WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY TORX BITS?

Comments

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a Tivo that's botched a software update will do what you're describing. I have no idea if they're doing updates right now... we have a DirecTivo and DirecTV has been complete bastards about (not) providing software updates... we still don't even have folders on ours! :-( But we do have HDTV and glorious video quality, so that makes up for it a bit (and our cable system is crap and doesn't even come to our house, so DirecTV or Dish Network are really our only good TV providers).

I hadn't heard of Instacake... that's good to know... good luck!