Frozen DVR Receiver

[tadtam]

The last 2 times it rained my D* DSR704 dvr tivo-rcvr froze. This never happened b4 in 5 years. Is this a sign of impending doom??:eek2:
After unplugging and restart each time everything returned to “normal”.
Just wondering if I should get a new receiver....

[Go Beavs]

Same thing happened to mine and I ended up doing a "reset and clear everything". Had to set up the box again, but it cleared up the problem.

[Stuart Sweet]

I'm moving this to the Legacy Receiver forum.

It's hard to say if this is a hardware problem, but with a 5-year-old receiver, especially if it's been subject to heat and dust... anything is possible.

[eileen22]

I'm havng the same problem with my HR10-250 (not sure what manufacturer/model). In the past week, it has frozen 3 times, twice during hard rain, and once yesterday after it had been powered down for over 8 hours due to a power outage. After the outage it booted up fine and recorded a show, but then froze up about 3 hours later for no obvious reason (it wasn't raining). I'm wondering if this means it is starting to fail, but when I see others are having the same problem, it makes me think there may be a software issue. I think that there was a recent software update on this machine in the past month.

[CCarncross]

Its probably a bad hard drive...IIRC there are some tools to test the drive out of an HD Tivo, you might even be able to copy the data to a new HD if it is bad and keep all your recordings and fix your issue.