Frozen cable card uprgrade Series 3

[crockett23]

All day I was unable to watch live TV. Every time I would go live, it would say upgrading cable cards. The info screen said it could take up to 40 min but 8 hours later I finally call Cox and they say both cards are tiered and to call Tivo. I call Tivo and am told the cards are bad and I need to have them replaced.
The S3 would not let me repeat guided setup. I even unplugged it, but it went right back to upgrading cable cards. I ended up yanking the cards and back to analog. Hopefully the new cards coming out will fix it. Any one else have something close to this?

[alee]

I call it FUGSOD - Firmware Upgrade Grey Screen of Death (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=316911&page=2&pp=30&highlight=FUGSOD)

When it happened to be, the problem was entirely on the Time Warner side (every CableCARD in Manhattan was knocked out by a misconfiguration on their end). It took 2-3 days for them to fix the issue (after which my unit returned to normal operation). For others, it was a bad card.

Either way, your unit is basically out of service until the cards are removed, the upgrade completes, or the carrier corrects the problem on their end.