no signal on some channels

eao1

Hi there,

iv just took the cables from my sky box and put them into my htpc with a dvbs aver pci card and set it up in mce.i can recieve all bbc,itv and lots of others but i cant get channel 4,e4,more 4 and also them channels as +.i have 3 coaxs coming from the dish and have tried the three of them but it still just has a black screen and then says no signal is being recieved.
I have made sure that the frequencies are correct and have tried to view them with the cards native software player which was supplied with the card but to no sucess.
are they still on free sat? am i doing somthing wrong?

hope u can help.

thanks in advance.

steveon

Its likely that you have something near the computer such as a wireless phone or wireless router that may be causing your problem, if you have anything like a phone near the computer just try unplugging it from the wall and see if that helps.

Corkbah

might also be the weather outside...its nasty

200motels

A lot of channels are breaking up on me today.

eao1

well i just set this up last monday and have checked it each day and still no luck iv never had a problem with signal over the last 3 yrs of the dish being there and plugged onto the sky box,no cordless phone here,the router is over the other side of the house im gonna turn wireless off now see if it makes any difference but i should get them right? any other suggestions?

thanks for the quick replies

Jimmyireland

I have noticed a lot break up in the HD film Channels over the last few days and in the SD movie channels today

eao1

no phones,and turned the wireless off on my router too just tried it there and still no luck,i never had problems on signal when the sky was hooked up but could it be my sat alignment?should i adjust it,i checked it with my sat finder and with a setting of 5db im getting nearly a max of 10 and on the scale with a load noise,should i be getting the loud noise with a lower setting on the sat finder, its annoying the hell outta me,the weather is good today too so its not that.
any other suggestions

thanks again

ms1502

Hello, i'm having some problems with my sky plus too.. i can only record when the programme is actually on and then i get message "no satellite being received" on all others ch. when nothing is being recorded all chans are fine.. very strange .. any advice would be very welcome .. sky were useless. I have hours of music on the box so don't want to replace it. Happy new year to all

John mac

probably a slight misalignment ,
or dodgy connection.
try changing around the connections on the back of the box,
and see if the quality readings change.


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ms1502

Cheers for that.. the scart lead was loose.. i would have thought that it wouldn't connect at all.would have gone mad if i'd called an engineer for that