Did 3 more "clear and delete everythings," and now I have a good signal coming in on satellites A and B on all the odd transponders.  Are there supposed to be signals on even?

In guided setup, after I test signal strength, in confirming setup, I get a warning: "Satellite:  101 (A): right side not detected."  If I go to "I'll fix later," I still can't acquire signal info.

 Any ideas?

 Thanks.

Since no one else posted, I went ahead and put the baked HD back in, hooked up the phone line and sat and powered up.

 Everything went smoothly, so I'm assuming that at least for my DVR the phone line has to be connected during initial power-up.

 When my FA120 arrives next week, I'll be dowloading PTVNet and will probably have more questions.

 Hopefully I'll get more responses.

Thanks for the suggestions.  Hopefully it was the ribbon cable.  The last time I removed/re-installed the HD, I popped the ribbon cable out while removing the HD power supply.  At first I thought I had torn it out and was very relieved when I saw it could be reinserted.  Hopefully, I had just knocked it loose during an earlier HD removal.

 The units been running fine for about 28 hours now, but I'll do a clear and delete everything later today/tonight and see if I can repeat the guided setup without the phone line plugged in.

Thanks!

Everything was going fine, and then I walked back in the room and it had lost the signal again (or at least all the even transponders).   My regular receiver and my R10 pick up the signal just fine from this same location in the house.

 I removed and reinserted the ribbon cable with no luck.  Also replaced baked HD with original Tivo HD, same thing.

I bought this used on ebay, going to see if seller will take back and then try to acquire another.

Thanks for the help!