After a storm HR20 dead? What to do?

Big storm today, power did go out, at one point after a nearby strike my pc started running faster and faster till I killed the power, it seems ok but the sound card maybe fried. Came home later to find my HR20 running but no blue light and no picture. Tried a 2 minute unplug and still nothing I can hear the harddrive or fan running but no light no picture. I'm trying a longer unplug period now. So is it dead? Anything else I need to try?

And if it is I have to decide if buying/leasing a HR 24 from SS or Amazon is better than just calling Directv for a replacement and getting the luck of the draw.

 

Still dead this morning after staying unplugged over night. All my units are on a battery backup. The best I can tell a surge from the lightning strike may have came thru the ethernet powerline adaptor. So nowI have to decide if I want to try and get a deal on a whole home set up from Directv or just replace the box. I have found a local supplier of the HR24 so I may pick one up from tham and try to get some credits from Directv.

 

Directv is sending out a new DVR. I tried to get them to do a Whole home install but they could not get their system to take the order as it shows I already have it. Which I do have an unsupported whole home set up thru mu network. But I wanted to go the SWM Deca supported route and have a truck rollout giving me better odds of getting a HR24. As suggested here I had them delete from their system that I had WHDVR hoping that then they could place the order to install it...no luck after several CSRs tried. So I settled for what is supposed to be a new HDDVR with a 2yr commitment. If it is not new I'll have a problem with the 2yr commitment. I'm hoping for a HR24. I'll let you know what I end up with. Is it correct that a refurb replacement does not carry the 2yr commitment?

For now I relocated my HR22 to my main viewing room and all seems well mostly. I did have to swap out the BBCs as on set up I recievied a 771 searching for satellite message. After the swap all is mostly well all though I have seen the 771 message a couple more times, I can change tuners onto another station and all is fine, if I change stations on the tuner with the message all is fine. I'm not sure what is causing this. Any ideas?

 

No luck for me a refurb HR22-200 was sent and is being returned. While I new the CSRs could not tell what model was shipped I thought they could determine if it was new or a refurb and they told me it would be new, it wasn't and it is going back. I'm buying/leasing a HR24 from Amazon and am supposed to get credit for the cost back from Directv.

 

Was it a new one or a refurb? Did they roll a truck or ship it to you?

 

Agreed and I have except for the powerline eithernet adaptor and I suspect that was my source of the surge. I will not be using them this time.

 

My local power company offers whole home surge protection option for $10 a month with $50000 coverage. I'm thinking about this as so may items like stoves, refrigerators, Tvs etc.. can be taken out by a power surge.