About a month ago give or take my 721 seemed to get messed up during a storm. It was like it was a currupt file. When I turned it on after the storm I couldn't get it to work. When I tried to reset it with the power button on the front panel it booted up and said it was formating the hard drive. It got done and worked fine although I lost everything I had. It worked great until now. We did have a storm again last night although I'm pretty sure this is plugged into a surge protector. Anyway I turned the TV on today and it said press select. It's always like this when you leave it idle for a long time. It's a Dish logo saying press select floating around the screen. I did and it wouldn't come on like normal. I then tried to reset it with the front power button as this usually fixes the issues. Anyway it reset and said validating hard drive when it first starts up after reseting. It never will get past that screen and if you leave it sitting and come back you can't get it to work at all. I have done it a few times and pulled the smart card to reset too. It doesn't seem to fix it. The yellow power light does seem to be constantly blinking now. Any ideas as to whats wrong or is it something that can't be fixed? I on one hand want a 722 but on the other hand I don't and I don't want my bill to go up $20 a month which it will. I'd like to keep this thing working if possible.
