Well, I took delivery of a new power supply for this TiVo Series 2 I have been trying to make work. No luck at all. I guess something else is wrong but I have no idea what. If it’s a bad board, I would just expect it to fail right off. We’ve ruled out a bad disk and I actually put the original one back in since i haven’t been able to make it act up. If I send it back for TiVo to fix, that’s the drive that will be in it.
And that looks like my last best hope. They want $159 to restore it to spec: I can likely sell the power supply on eBay for close to what I paid for it, if it’s not returnable, and I’ll just keep the 160 Gb drive for other purposes (did you know a 160 Gb drive actually formats to 127 Gb? Talk about shrinkage.)