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I have a DirecTV Tivo HR10-250. I'm still on the old software (3.1.5f I believe).
Audio is no longer being output through the toslink Optical Audio port.
On Saturday, we were watching a movie, and the audio kept dropping out for a second or so every couple minutes. I would back up and play the same part again, and the audio would be fine, so it obviously was not the satellite signal. I decided to try rebooting the receiver to see if that fixed the problem, which it seemed to mostly, it still had some audio drop outs but only a couple times over the next couple hours. On Sunday, I turned on the Tivo and was getting no Sound at all, I tried changing the optical audio cable, changing the audio setting from DD to Standard, rebooting again, and nothing worked. I finally unplugged it and left it unplugged for about an hour. When I plugged it back in, it would just stay on the "Welcome powering up" screen and go no further.
I had upgraded the drive when I bought the receiver, so I still had the barely used original hard drive. Yesterday I opened up the receiver, and installed the original drive. The receiver now boots up properly, but the optical audio does not work. Every couple of minutes or so it might output sound for a second or so, but mostly just outputs no sound at all. Again I tried changing the settings and using a different optical cable. Audio through the Stereo RCA ports works fine.
I would really like to get the optical audio working again, does anyone have any ideas? could I get replacement parts? Has anyone else had these problems?
Also, there are some shows recorded on the old hard drive I was wanting to watch, what suggestions for fixing this drive might anyone have? or do I need to just replace it? Was going to hook it up to my PC tonight to see if it is completely dead or still readable.
Thank you
Audio is no longer being output through the toslink Optical Audio port.
On Saturday, we were watching a movie, and the audio kept dropping out for a second or so every couple minutes. I would back up and play the same part again, and the audio would be fine, so it obviously was not the satellite signal. I decided to try rebooting the receiver to see if that fixed the problem, which it seemed to mostly, it still had some audio drop outs but only a couple times over the next couple hours. On Sunday, I turned on the Tivo and was getting no Sound at all, I tried changing the optical audio cable, changing the audio setting from DD to Standard, rebooting again, and nothing worked. I finally unplugged it and left it unplugged for about an hour. When I plugged it back in, it would just stay on the "Welcome powering up" screen and go no further.
I had upgraded the drive when I bought the receiver, so I still had the barely used original hard drive. Yesterday I opened up the receiver, and installed the original drive. The receiver now boots up properly, but the optical audio does not work. Every couple of minutes or so it might output sound for a second or so, but mostly just outputs no sound at all. Again I tried changing the settings and using a different optical cable. Audio through the Stereo RCA ports works fine.
I would really like to get the optical audio working again, does anyone have any ideas? could I get replacement parts? Has anyone else had these problems?
Also, there are some shows recorded on the old hard drive I was wanting to watch, what suggestions for fixing this drive might anyone have? or do I need to just replace it? Was going to hook it up to my PC tonight to see if it is completely dead or still readable.
Thank you
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