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SKY HD Box Freezing

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  • 07-07-2008 9:47pm
    #1
    RockCastle
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi

    Anyone had this problem, the picture one my Sky HD box keeps freezing. The sound keeps playing away in the background but no movement on screen. If i change channels then it goes away for any length of time from 5 mins to an hour and then it will freeze again.

    How do I reset it and if I do will I loose all the recordings on the hard drive?? If I do reset should it work. The box was installed Sept 06

    Thanks!


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    #2
    200motels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭200motels


    :)
    RockCastle wrote: »
    Hi

    Anyone had this problem, the picture one my Sky HD box keeps freezing. The sound keeps playing away in the background but no movement on screen. If i change channels then it goes away for any length of time from 5 Min's to an hour and then it will freeze again.

    How do I reset it and if I do will I loose all the recordings on the hard drive?? If I do reset should it work. The box was installed Sept 06

    Thanks!
    System rebuild should sort it out. Go to services type in 407, and you should see system rebuild and full system rebuild and select either one, the latter one will delete all your recordings.:)


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    RockCastle
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭RockCastle


    Cheers for that! Is it just me but the Sky HD Boxes just don’t run as smoothly as the standard ones or is it because I have one of the older ones. I get a lot of failed recordings and the menus are just slower.

    My old standard box never acted up in any way! :)


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    Tony
    Registered Users Posts: 11,327 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Your right, HD boxes are not as reliable as standard boxes

    Desktop PC Boards discount code on https://www.satellite.ie/ is boards.ie



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    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Was your standard box a Thomson?

    Personally not a fan of Thomson products.


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    kbell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭kbell


    Agreed, takes ages to get a callback off them, although not as bad as the older "whistling" thompson boxes.

    Don't know if anyone else has came across this but i've found with thompson boxes, both Std and HD that 10.773 v 22 5/9 nearly always returns a no signal found result.


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    Sam Radford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Sam Radford


    The Thomson power supplies start to fail after typically 15 - 18 months. Yours is already on borrowed time. You might like to fix it before "expensive smoke" comes out! You should then find that it runs a lot better.

    http://notonyourtelly.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1390


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    RockCastle
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭RockCastle


    Yea mine is one of the orginal Thomson ones! I wouldn't be a fan of the stuff either.


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