TiVo Series 3 troubles... looking for help

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Sad to say that I've experienced this problem twice, and both times my box had to be replaced under warranty. In my case, the system would recover when the cable feed was disconnected. Then I could watch already recorded material, but any new recording seemed to be problem. Oddly, the problem was aggravated when the cable was connected and one or more tuners were tuning a high-def channel.

I haven't seen the latest threads on tivocommunity about this, but at the time some people were thinking it is some kind of a drive problem. One fellow replaced his drive with a 3rd party unit, and the issue went away. Other reports were that there was some kind of unspecified software problem that causes the problem.