{"id":41,"date":"2006-02-03T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:49:26","slug":"the-welcome-powering-up-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/02\/the-welcome-powering-up-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Welcome! Powering Up . . .&#8221; Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note from the troubleshooting archives: The Welcome! Powering Up Screen.<\/p>\n<p>When you first boot any TiVo DVR, you&#8217;ll see a version of the &#8220;Welcome! Powering Up&#8221; screen. For most units, it&#8217;s one of these two below. For the oldest TiVos, it looks a bit different.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/DSC00001.JPG\" alt=\"DSC00001.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/DSC00002.JPG\" alt=\"DSC00002.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This screen is built into the firmware on the motherboard of the unit. Software updates don&#8217;t affect it, and you&#8217;ll see it even without a hard drive installed in the unit.<\/p>\n<p>The next screen is the &#8220;Almost There&#8221; screen. It&#8217;s at this point that the TiVo starts to read data off the hard drive. So if you get as far as &#8220;Almost There&#8221; that means you have a hard drive present and the motherboard has begun reading from it. Older units with the gray &#8220;Welcome&#8221; screen can progress to a gray or orange-and-black &#8220;Almost There&#8221; screen depending on the software version.<\/p>\n<p>So the progress during start up is a good place to do some troubleshooting if you suspect you&#8217;ve got a hard drive problem. If you get to the &#8220;Welcome! Powering Up&#8221; screen and no further, the TiVo can&#8217;t read the OS from the hard drive. So in 99% of those cases, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/upgrades.php\">replacement hard drive with the right TiVo OS<\/a> on it, properly formatted, will fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Have a different problem with your TiVo? If you get no screen at all, then you may have a bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo_ps.php\">power supply<\/a>, or just a cabling issue. If you get further than this screen, then you could still have a hard drive problem or another issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from the troubleshooting archives: The Welcome! Powering Up Screen. When you first boot any TiVo DVR, you&#8217;ll see a version of the &#8220;Welcome! Powering Up&#8221; screen. For most units, it&#8217;s one of these two below. For the oldest TiVos, it looks a bit different. This screen is built into the firmware on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}