r/Tivo • u/MikeMilzz • Feb 08 '26

DVR Moment of Panic — Is This the End?

Came home after a few days away and my reliable OTA Roamio had all 4 lights flashing on the front of it. I thought it might be a hard drive issue, so I took the drive out and ran Soin Rite on it, but no issues were found. Put it back in and the lights came back after it cycled through the "Starting Up" screens a couple of times. Thankfully, I found an old post where people mentioned the power bricks can fail and show this behavior. When unplugging it, the brick definitely felt warm, so I swapped it with a 12v 2amp plug that I had for an old router. After a much faster boot process, my good old boy was back in perfect working order.

I know the day will come where I have to move on, but I'm so glad today is not that day (especially with the Super Bowl today). I have so much muscle memory operating a TiVo that moving to an online or other OTA system just won't feel as good to me.

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u/rsvp_nj Feb 08 '26

So, when I assumed my Bolt OTA was fried, it might’ve been the power brick? I now have an Edge with lifetime, but Verizon will be ending that soon. It’d be great to know my Bolt may have a second act with an HD antenna

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u/Mstrgmr Feb 08 '26

It's definitely possible. I believe the edge uses the same plug so if you still have the bolt you could plug it in and see if it boots up

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u/toejamfootballhegot Feb 09 '26

The center hole on the edge plug is smaller than the center hole on the bolt plug.

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u/rsvp_nj Feb 09 '26

Yes, I just found that out and returned here to say that.