TiVo Troubleshoot

Pariah · September 13th, 2005, 06:47 AM

Over the weekend I had a problem with my TiVo and thought I'd share my solution with the TV crowd. I can't believe it'd just be me that will have it.

One day, the TV started getting really "choppy" and stopping and starting in spurts. At first, it was fairly rare, so I chalked it up to sunspots of something going on with the satellite signal. Then, it got to the point where it was unwatchable. And, because the delay was really bad (REALLY bad) in the TiVo menus, I deduced it wasn't the TV set, it wasn't the Satellite, it was the TiVo box. (this problem went from not so bad to really really bad overnight).

Long story short, I spent a couple of hours trying various things ranging from restarting to deleting most of the saved shows and emptying the season pass queues, but what did the trick was resetting the thumbs up/thumbs down memory.

I've had the TiVo for a while (it's an original Series 2, I think). It's about 3 years old. But, I gues those thumbs settings remember what you record (and watch), so they take up a ton of memory.

Runs like a charm now. If your TiVo is acting wonky, you might try it.

Mike Olbinski · September 13th, 2005, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Pariah

Over the weekend I had a problem with my TiVo and thought I'd share my solution with the TV crowd. I can't believe it'd just be me that will have it.

One day, the TV started getting really "choppy" and stopping and starting in spurts. At first, it was fairly rare, so I chalked it up to sunspots of something going on with the satellite signal. Then, it got to the point where it was unwatchable. And, because the delay was really bad (REALLY bad) in the TiVo menus, I deduced it wasn't the TV set, it wasn't the Satellite, it was the TiVo box. (this problem went from not so bad to really really bad overnight).

Long story short, I spent a couple of hours trying various things ranging from restarting to deleting most of the saved shows and emptying the season pass queues, but what did the trick was resetting the thumbs up/thumbs down memory.

I've had the TiVo for a while (it's an original Series 2, I think). It's about 3 years old. But, I gues those thumbs settings remember what you record (and watch), so they take up a ton of memory.

Runs like a charm now. If your TiVo is acting wonky, you might try it.

Wow, interesting tip...we almost never use the ThumbsUp/Down stuff...but very interesting.

Too bad you had to delete all your season passes, ugh.

Mike

Pariah · September 13th, 2005, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Chandler Mike

Wow, interesting tip...we almost never use the ThumbsUp/Down stuff...but very interesting.

Too bad you had to delete all your season passes, ugh.

Mike

Yeah, I don't use them either--but Tivo does automatically. It's information used to sell to the marketeers about what you watch, I think.

I didn't actually delete the season passes, I just cleared the "upcoming episodes." My reasoning was that's whats taking up the space. When it didn't work, I just went in one-by-one and deleted and re-added them. So, it was a process, but I still have 'em.

In truth, it was a good exersize because I ended up evaluation what I was recording and watching/not watching and now I have a "cleaner" Now Playing list.