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The Green Screen of Death or GSOD is a screen of death that occurs on a TiVo digital video recorder and it indicates that it’s hard drive has failed. In the GSOD, there is a message that begins with "Severe Error" as it indicates that corrupted data is about to be repaired on the damaged hard drive. In most cases, the repairs are fixed without any troubleshooting, though it can take hours, and it cannot function in other ways, even if the box recovery is finished.

Details of the GSOD

Since TiVo’s inception in 1999, the cause of the green screen of death was unknown until upgrades to the DVR came into use. As the upgrades came into use, most people had no problems with the upgrades. During the time of TiVo’s first upgrades, some groups of people experienced problems with the upgrades, which streamlines one of the first causes of the green screen of death.

Then, there is another cause other than upgrade issues called hard drive failures. These failures happen because of physical forces such as dropping, barring, and vice versa, overheating, data loss, hardware life expectancy, human error, extremely low and high temperatures, water damage, voltage surges, and even corrupted files.

Because of the nerve-wracking causes of the hard drive failures and the upgrade issues, the end result is the green screen of death.

How to cope with the Green Screen of Death

After the green screen of death starts appearing on the screen, there has been some useful strategies to cope with the green screen of death. As according to Yahoo! Answers, a guy who used to work for TiVo has replied that the provider doesn’t have any technicians and it’s designed to fix itself. In terms of time, the usual time for a green screen of death to end is approximately three hours. If the screen is on for more than three hours, you will have to unplug both the power and Ethernet cord. Later on, you plug them back in and you have to wait for five minutes. If these solutions don’t do the trick, call TiVo support.

Green Screen of Death in electronics other than TiVo DVRs

Besides the green screen of death in TiVo digital video recorders, people have also been reporting the green screen of death in other electronics such as the Xbox consoles, PlayStation 2, 3, and 4, Windows 10 computers, and Apple Inc. devices such as iPhones and iPads.

Video game console GSOD history

Since the formation of the PlayStation (formed from December 3, 1994 to the present day) and Xbox consoles (formed from November 15, 2001 to the present day) the cause of the green screen of death was unknown until the exact causes have been discovered.

Xbox 360: GSOD Causes and Solutions

References

1. "How to deal with the Green Screen of Death". Retrieved November 11, 2016.
2. "First cause of the GSOD highlighted". Retrieved November 27, 2011.
3. "The signs of hard drive failures". Retrieved January 1, 2018.
4. "Solutions for the GSOD". Retrieved March 11, 2010.

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