ReplayTV remote control crashes system

If it is JUST when you press "Channel Guide" it could be that there is some corrupt data in the guide the RTV doesn't understand, so it hangs...

Had this happen back in the day when I EuroNews was in my channel lineup. There would be some obscure character in the gudie data, and any time that I would scroll by that channel, my RTV would re-boot.

The solution? Remove that channel...

I don't think your remote control is to blame here...

Cheers!
-Doug

Of course you could also try to access the Channel Guide through the Menu, which would rule out a problem with the Guide key. If it still crashes you can proceed as above, or if that fails, clear the entire Guide (twice). If it is the remote, there are lots on eBay.

Many universal remote controls are compatible with the ReplayTV. I have one of the oneforall models with a PVR device key and it works well. The down side is that it doesn't have the Zones button. For normal viewing, this is a minor inconvenience. You can access Zones through the menu using two or more button pushes instead of just one. However, the Zones button is needed for some of the special functions. An example is 243 Zones to get to a menu which provides a forced network connect. I keep my original remote control, which has a number of buttons that don't work well, just for the Zones button.

I agree with dstoffa and gring40 that the remote is probably not causing your machine to crash.

From another post, I think you have a 5040. A good test might be using a "softremote" as found in DVArchive or WiRNS. DVArchive would probably be easiest as you just download a zip file,execute the jar file, enter your DVR's IP address, and start DVR Remote control.