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Gsod Svr-2000
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Posted by: R_Brun

My SVR-2000 died last night with a GSOD. It recovered itself once and promptly died again. So I am off to get a new HDD, where I can I find a backup of the primary drive? The only backup I have is for a Philips.

Thanks,
Rob

Posted by: R_Brun

While I was out buying a new hard drive I left the unit cycling through the green screen and reboot. It recovered itself once more and was sitting at a Getting Started screen.

I immediatly unplugged the unit, removed the drive and went through the backup/upgrade procedure. The new drive seems to be working fine.

The moral I guess (beyond having a backup on hand) is that if you get a moment of hope after a green screen, there may still be a chance to make a backup and perform a restore successfully.

After making the drive swap, I tested the original drive with Maxtor's Powerdiag and sure enough, bad blocks....

Hope this helps someone else.
Rob

Posted by: ccfcannon

Hi,

I've had the same problem, just this morning my Sony SVR-2000 30 Hour Tivo got stuck with this Green Screen error.

If I'm reading the FAQ correctly, I need an image of a good A drive from someone with the same model, yes?

Posted by: R_Brun

Yes, if you never get to a spot in your green screen cycle, you will need a good backup.

While having my problem, I was considering just making a backup of the green screen drive. If I am reading everything correctly, the green screen will try to use the phone line to connect and get a new image if it has to. So in theory, if you have an image that is stuck at a green screen, put it on a new drive, it should be able to recover.

Someone else may know better, but its worth a shot if you can't get a hold of a backup.

If it doesn't work, and no one points you to a good image, send me a private email.

BTW: Picked up an Maxtor 80gb drive at Best Buy yesterday. After rebate comes to $76

Rob

Posted by: Robert S

We don't believe MFS Tools can backup a drive stuck on a green screen - it needs to read the contents of the MFS partitions to do its job. You were very lucky that mfsfix completed.

I don't know in detail what the TiVo will download, I think it's more likely it downloads the system animations and guide data rather than system binaries.

If the system does recover, pull the drive and take a backup immediately - you might be lucky and the TiVo will not green screen again, but I wouldn't count on it!

But generally a green screen does indicate a problem with the hard drive, so a hard drive swap will always fix it.