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GSOD and not a bad HD
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Posted by: RaginCajun

Yesterday AM I awakened to a GSOD on my Phillips 212. I waited the suggested 24 hrs and still nothing. I restarted the unit with pause 5,7 and then pause 5,8. After a lengthy download all I ended up with was the GSOD. I replaced the HD with a HD from a known working Tivo unit and still GSOD. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Thanks,
Paul

Posted by: SJJ

I had a GSOD also. I waited about 36 hours. And tried the 5,7 - 5,8 combo, nothing worked.

I was able to do an MFS backup with no problem. I ran maxtor diagnostics and they came up clean. I restored the backup image to 2 new 120gb maxtor drives and got the GSOD again. I restored a backup from the original drives to the new 120's and the system came up okay. I never upgraded my second Tivo but I'm about ready to try to use the 2 older 100 gb drives upgrading the second machine. I was definitely unhappy since I had no recent list of passes and I had a couple of months worth of movies (I pick and choose which movie to watch, so some older ones get passed over for a newer recording.)

Posted by: RaginCajun

My replacement drive was the original drive.

Posted by: SJJ

My original drives had been in the closet since last November. So the program data needed updating but they ran fine for a couple of weeks until I put the new drives in. I took a fresh backup after they updated and I used that one on the new drives.