MFS is messed up. Any ideas?

[Francesco]

It appears that somehow MFS got screwed up. I haven't watched much TV lately but my wife said it's been happening for the last couple of days.

Philips DSR6000R running 3.5 on a Seagate 200 GB with the 3.1+ kernel (LBA48).

Basically all the shows in Now Playing are screwed up, chunk by chunk. A show will play fine for a while then switch to a completely different recording, then perhaps jump back to a later point in the original one. Example: watching Sunday's NASCAR race, a five hour recording. Plays fine for about 40 minutes, then I see a macroblocked flash then it plays something recorded on another channel at another time. Then it jumps ahead in the correct recording (the race) to about the middle. If I rewind, the arrows jump back and forth between that point and the original jump point. It is repeatable, except every time I start the show again, at the first jump point it jumps to a completely different recording, not the one it jumped to last time... :confused:

Any ideas? Can the recordings be salvaged with a re-index somehow? How? Worst-case scenario?

[rcobourn]

That sounds like a case for clear and delete everything, at a minimum. You've already restarted the recorder, I expect.

[TiVoJerry]

Before Clearing & Deleting, it wouldn't hurt to try the following:

Restart the unit.

The left (Receiving) led light on the front bezel will be green at first. As soon as the left light turns yellow, immediately press and hold down the yellow Pause button on the remote. Within a few moments, the right light should turn yellow. You only have approximately 2 seconds to complete this step successfully. (If you are unable to catch the change in color or timing, you may also hold the pause button down continuously during the restart until the second light comes on)

When this second light comes on, release the yellow Pause button and then press "57" on the remote control. You only have approximately 10 seconds to complete this step successfully.

The DVR will cycle through the startup screens and they will then see a green screen with text describing a "Severe Error". Do not be alarmed. A full system check is being performed and any corrupted data is being repaired or removed.

Please do not turn off the DVR while it is repairing the problem.

[Francesco]

Thanks, Jerry.

It refuses to do a green screen after 57, no matter how many times I try. The two lights are on, I hit 5 then 7, the red LED acknowledges the 7, and then it continues booting. Is there another code I should try?

[TiVoJerry]

You can try 58 or 52, but I don't hold much hope that those codes will be accepted either. C&D Everything might be your last hope before hardware replacement.

[SleepyBob]

I just triggered the 57 GSOD on my HDTiVo (it stops responding to the remote after running for an hour). It's been running for 3 hours, and I noticed that it is rebooting periodically through this.

1. Is this normal?
2. Can I give up on the GSOD somehow, so I can at least watch the shows we have?

Francesco, I don't know if you have ever used the panic mode before, but it took me about 10 tries before I figured out a timing that worked for me:

The left light turned green, and it booted for a long time (30+ seconds)
Then the right light turned red (not yellow) for 10 seconds.
Then the right light turned off.
Then the left light turned yellow, and I held in the pause button.
Then they both blinked right after that, and I entered 57.

[TiVoJerry]

If the box keeps rebooting during the green screen, it's done for. Needs a new drive.

[Francesco]

58 seems to have worked on the first try... but instead of a green screen, it went through the boot screens and is now on "Installing new software from the TiVo Service. This will take a few minutes." It has been on this screen for 20 minutes so far, so I'm beginning to wonder.