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    Sony SVR2000 stuck in guided set up and no home phone

    This is a long story. I'll try to give the cliff notes version.
    I upgraded my sony to 2 120Gig hard drives. That went well so I tried to upgrade to an airnet. That didn't go so well. I was having network connectivity problems and someone on a forum suggested telnet into the TiVo and ping it. GREAT! It blacked out, rebooted, and hasn't made a call since. It still worked as a manual recorder. That was 7 years ago. Recently I thought if it went through guided set up it would connect, (well I had nothing to lose)
    So I bought a turbonet card and ditched the airnet. Still wont connect.
    So I bought a used SVR 2000 off Ebay, put my large drives, and the turbonet in it. Still no luck. Thought I'd put the ebay hard drive back in. Guess what? It's in guided set up too! One last try, Put my original Tivo A drive in and Viola' I got it working.
    Now....I wanna put my large drives back in. If I make a backupof my working A drive and copy that to the 2 large drives will it still be in guided set up or have to go through it?
    Is there another way to get my large drives to finish guided set up. I have no land line phone. BTW I tried to use my mothers phone line and no luck. I even tried the ebay drive. I'm wondering if it's because it's set for ,#401 that it's not making the call. Where is that stored btw, on the hard drive or a chip on the MB, or the modem?
    Please help.
    Craig
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    With that dialing prefix, the TiVo won't use the modem. You have to remove it if you want to dial in.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by WK-Jeff View Post
      With that dialing prefix, the TiVo won't use the modem. You have to remove it if you want to dial in.
      can I remove it from guided set up? If I can get the hard drives to finish guided set up, I wouldn't have to re-write the drives cause everything else works fine.
      Craig

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      • #4
        well......I forgot to hook up the second drive and I powered it up......I then cuaght my mistake and corrected it, but it was too late. I got the green screen of death.
        Ironicly this could have all been avoided if I had bought the turbonet 1st. I'd have a working large drive Sony SVR2000
        Last edited by 1hacked2not; 10-30-2009, 08:13 PM.

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        • #5
          Well, looks like you've got two problems now. See if it'll work out of the green screen, but you will need to dial it in to get out of Guided Setup.
          Been here a long time . . .

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          • #6
            I put the original drive back in and it's working again. Im considering instant cake. Does it have to complete guided setup after running cake? If it does that may not be an option for me. My only other option then is to make a copy of my original drive and paste it onto the 2 large drives. Also, is there a way to make a CD copy of the original hard drive, or put it on a thumb drive for future use? Because I don't have the original tivo.bak when I originaly did the upgrades. A couple of clean installs a bad motherboard, and 7 years later...no back up copy.
            Last edited by 1hacked2not; 11-01-2009, 06:06 PM.

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            • #7
              I don't know about that product, but pretty much any time you reformat, you need to run Guided Setup.
              Been here a long time . . .

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