I found a guy with an SD-H400 image over on MFSLive.org that was nice enough to let me download a copy. I put the image on a 120GB Seagate drive I had, put it in the Tivo, and now it works perfectly again. It actually works better now than it did before. I think the new drive being a 7200 RPM drive is what is making the difference. The menus are more responive and the Tivo seems all around faster. The image that I got would only fit on a drive larger than 80GB and the only drive I had laying around that was big enough was the 120, so I bought a 160GB drive off Newegg for pretty cheap, and now both SD-H400s are working better than ever.
I think that Instant Cake will allow you to put their SD-H400 image on a drive smaller that 80GB, so if you want to use a drive you have laying around that isn't quite 80GB, you should be able to buy the Instant Cake image (~$20) and put it on something smaller. I'd rather spend the money on a larger drive than on an image I can get elsewhere for free.
If these are original hard drives, they are probably corrupt or have gone bad.
You can order a replacement (upgrade) drive or just software and make your own from:
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/
SOURCE: powering up
Leave the box unplugged from the wall for an hour then try to power up again.
If it doesn't please post back.
Good luck
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My tivo will not power up. I unplug and plug it back in and the screen
says " Welcome. Powering up..." What should I try next???? Help
I have the same problem. After about 5 minutes or so I hear the hard drive start making noises. What's confusing me is I have 2 units that are doing the same thing and started doing it at the same time. I had some other PC hardware failures recently that I think were caused by a surge. I had everything plugged in to surge protectors, but it didn't seem to help. In my main PC, the power supply fried, and in my laptop the AC adapter fried. I'm thinking that maybe both Tivo machines powers supplies have fried also, but I'm surprised to see this "Welcome. Powering up..." screen at all if the power supply is dead. I though about trying to replace the harddrive, but without a working SD-H400 I wouldn't be able to restore the software without paying someone for it. I'm not too sure I want to spend money on a solution that isn't 100%.
Hi,
I just bought a used on from Ebay. While programming, it rebooted itself and won't come up. (stuck on welcome screen). Need help.
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