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08-04-2005, 08:15 AM
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Died
My Sage box died last night. I tried to install an STV and Sage crashed. It wouldn't restart. So I rebooted and somewhere in the reboot Windows complains about a missing dll (I can't tell which b/c it's fuzzy on my TV). Bloody hell!
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08-04-2005, 09:22 AM
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Are you able to boot to Last Known Good config (assuming you're on XP)? Maybe hook up a monitor so you can see those options? Last Known Good will get you to the config your box had at last successful login. It's worth a shot.
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08-04-2005, 10:46 AM
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Options:
Safe Mode ->reinstall Sage/see if you can track down that dll. You might want to find a monitor so you can see exactly what you're missing. Last Known Good Boot off Windows CD and repair installation Boot off windows CD and re-install Good luck!
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08-04-2005, 10:58 AM
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Can't boot in either Safe Mode, or Last known Good Config. Tried both, I tried every boot option. I might be able to boot using the XP Pro CD into Repair mode and try and copy the missing file. That's about all I can think of. Most likely I'm going to have to format and reinstall Windows. Which sucks b/c I'll lose all my favorites and all the shows I've flagged as watched. Stupid PC. I'm actually considering getting the digital PVR box from my cable company. That way I don't have to leave my PC on 24 hours a day (making a racket with the noisy fan), and I'll be able to record all my digital channels without buying a second DCT box and configuring a USB-UIRT. Less fuss. I'll lose the ability to add plugins for weather, or burning DVD's, and getting the recorded show off the HD and onto my PC for burning, but I found that I didn't do much of that anyway. Mostly I'll miss being able to play back imported videos. Looks like I'll have to go back to burning DVD's of home videos and playing them back that way. More fuss there. Oh well.
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08-04-2005, 11:32 AM
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To save your watched stuff, you could always hook the HD to another computer and pull off your wiz.bin...
That does suck though.
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08-04-2005, 01:33 PM
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Another option is to install a parallel copy of windows. That's what I did recently when I blew up my sage box. I just installed windows to another directory without a format and it came up just fine. Then I copied everything I needed to and reinstalled software that needed it.
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08-04-2005, 01:44 PM
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I did something similar when my box died. Didn't do parallel copy though, just booted to the CD and installed Windows right over top of the previous install, without formatting. Ran the program installs again, and all the data was there as if nothing ever happened.
Take Crashless' advice though. Hook the drive up to something else and copy the important data first. Just in case.
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