SKY+ box requiring reboot.
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If it's a Thomson box, then it's vVery likely to be power supply problem - easily and inexpensively fixed - see here : http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/psu.htm
My Sky+ HD box is only a couple of months old and has started "locking up" when it's asked to timer record. Done it twice now. Remote control stops working (as do all buttons on box) and it just sits there with red the record light on and everything locked solid. Unplugging and re-start has sorted it so far but it's mighty annoying as recordings are missed.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
Original Poster said:
I have had to restart mine once, must be very annoying doing it every couple of days...
my old Sky+ box was a pain in the arse near the end (upgraded to HD mainly due to the annoying box!)After a reboot (which was regularly needed) the box used to take about 5 mins before i would be able to watch anything.. was a
nightmare.Ive got a recent problem with 6 Brand new Samsung HD boxes, they were installed by an Aerial firm we use or should I say used then they did a runner. The install is a 60cm dish, quattro LNB, Triax 12 output multiswitch.
3 boxes are in the loft the other 3 are in various cupboards around the house, HDMI and Coax (for sky eye) has been run to each TV from the respective sky box.
Basically all boxes lock up randomly just as described as above usualy 2-3 times per day wich as I can imagine to be a right PITA (upto 18 resets per day).
The box supplier reckons these are the only ones out of the batch causing a problem so he says it must be the multiswitch??
All boxes have between 90-100% signal strenght and quality.
Does anyone have multiswitch installation experiance? Could the switch be causeing it?
3 boxes are in the loft the other 3 are in various cupboards around the house, HDMI and Coax (for sky eye) has been run to each TV from the respective sky box.
Basically all boxes lock up randomly just as described as above usualy 2-3 times per day wich as I can imagine to be a right PITA (upto 18 resets per day).
The box supplier reckons these are the only ones out of the batch causing a problem so he says it must be the multiswitch??
All boxes have between 90-100% signal strenght and quality.
Does anyone have multiswitch installation experiance? Could the switch be causeing it?
headcase said:
Ive got a recent problem with 6 Brand new Samsung HD boxes, they were installed by an Aerial firm we use or should I say used then they did a runner. The install is a 60cm dish, quattro LNB, Triax 12 output multiswitch.
I may be missing something here,- 6 x Sky HD boxes
- 4 x LNB
- 12 x output multiswitch
- all on HDMI cabling
It's not clear to me what this set-up is intended to achieve or what it's capable of achieving.
Ozzie Osmond said:
headcase said:
Ive got a recent problem with 6 Brand new Samsung HD boxes, they were installed by an Aerial firm we use or should I say used then they did a runner. The install is a 60cm dish, quattro LNB, Triax 12 output multiswitch.
I may be missing something here,- 6 x Sky HD boxes
- 4 x LNB
- 12 x output multiswitch
- all on HDMI cabling
It's not clear to me what this set-up is intended to achieve or what it's capable of achieving.
No, its 6 sky HD boxes from 1 dish so thats 12 feeds in all. A quattro LNB (not quad LNB) and a 12 output multiswitch is what has been installed to do the job. It does seem to work ok but all of the boxes intermittantly lock up.
Ill keep you posted, have another guy coming out tomorrow who seems to think he is the Jesus of sky installation
Ill keep you posted, have another guy coming out tomorrow who seems to think he is the Jesus of sky installation
Ozzie Osmond said:
headcase said:
Ive got a recent problem with 6 Brand new Samsung HD boxes, they were installed by an Aerial firm we use or should I say used then they did a runner. The install is a 60cm dish, quattro LNB, Triax 12 output multiswitch.
I may be missing something here,- 6 x Sky HD boxes
- 4 x LNB
- 12 x output multiswitch
- all on HDMI cabling
It's not clear to me what this set-up is intended to achieve or what it's capable of achieving.
This has been done in 6 different rooms.
headcase said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
headcase said:
Ive got a recent problem with 6 Brand new Samsung HD boxes, they were installed by an Aerial firm we use or should I say used then they did a runner. The install is a 60cm dish, quattro LNB, Triax 12 output multiswitch.
I may be missing something here,- 6 x Sky HD boxes
- 4 x LNB
- 12 x output multiswitch
- all on HDMI cabling
It's not clear to me what this set-up is intended to achieve or what it's capable of achieving.
This has been done in 6 different rooms.
- check ventilation of cupboards
- check signal with an expensive meter
- do a software update of the boxes
- change make of multiswitch (have seen problems in the past of certain brand receivers not working with certain brand switches)
- change brand of box
nothing more you can do realistically. My instinct would say boxes (if theyre all the same brand) as HD boxes can be utter s
te and have seen whole a series of almost sequential serial numbers not working. + does the box stop responding to inputs completely or just via the RF eye when locked away in the cupboards?
headcase said:
They stop responding to everything, even the buttons on top stop working, anyways a super duper aerial man has taken the problem from me, he has done a load of recabling, replacing lnb and multiswitch put boxes in a vented cab and guess what.... they still do it :P
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