Help!! I sat on the remote control!! This **** just got serious!

Pandora2

Tragic as my OH has just departed for a weeks work abroad!! I am a Sky subscriber and I am now viewing the TV Guide....with just a blue section where the screen normally runs...It will not allow me to choose a programme! I give out about telly all the time but, a whole week without it..or him!! Any ideas??

biko

Lol, the TV remote isn't a vibrator silly

Turn it off and back on again.

No seriously.

TheBody

MAybe the batteries flat from you sitting on the remote. :pac:

michael999999

Id say he has left you for another woman OP, and he's cancelled the sky.

Id suggest you rush to the ATM and check your money isn't gone aswell!

TommiesTank

How much do you weight?

Check the batteries aren't loose or dead. I'd have expected any remote to survive being sat on.

meoklmrk91

Deleted User wrote: »

Turn it off and back on again.

No seriously.

I agree, the first rule of I.T.

Ted_YNWA

Just because the remote may be FUBAR does not affect the Sky signal you are receiving.

A lot of the command buttons are on the box anyways.


Half arsed attempt at trolling.

Morph the Cat

Pandora2 wrote: »

Any ideas??

Stop your lame trolling?

GT_TDI_150

There's a familiar movie plot in here somewhere...

Husband's away, tv stops working, service man calls to the door, lady of the house answers door scantily clad, ...

Ted_YNWA

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Half arsed attempt at trolling.

Morph the Cat wrote: »

Stop your lame trolling?

From the charter:

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Do not to abuse them or call these posters trolls.

wazky

This is why he never lets you out of the kitchen, see what happens when you leave it now!?

Ted_YNWA

Just after seeing the OP's name is Pandora.



Must resist the urge to make a Pandora's box joke.

Morph the Cat

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Must resist the urge to make a Pandora's box joke.

You just did.

TommiesTank

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Just after seeing the OP's name is Pandora.



Must resist the urge to make a Pandora's box joke.

Married to Harry.

Howard Juneau

Unplug the mains cable from sky box for about 2mins, then plug it back in & power it back up, should sort your problem.
Quick fix sometimes is just pressing the sky button at the top of the remote.

Pandora2

Well a couple of things have happened...

A. I have turned off and on both the Sky Box and the telly, I'm not a complete moron! I now have a still of US X Factor, which I was not watching (before ye start!) and the programme information banner showing.

It will not allow me to move from this

And why oh why would anybody troll about losing the use of their telly? Seriously lads you need to get out in the fresh air!! Any advice still welcome!

Pandora2

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Unplug the mains cable from sky box for about 2mins, then plug it back in & power it back up, should sort your problem.
Quick fix sometimes is just pressing the sky button at the top of the remote.

Tried the quick fix but no joy, standby, I'm going to attempt to disengage cable now in 5, 4, 3,

Howard Juneau

Pandora2 wrote: »

Well a couple of things have happened...

A. I have turned off and on both the Sky Box and the telly, I'm not a complete moron! I now have a still of US X Factor, which I was not watching (before ye start!) and the programme information banner showing.

It will not allow me to move from this

And why oh why would anybody troll about losing the use of their telly? Seriously lads you need to get out in the fresh air!! Any advice still welcome!

You have to unplug it for a few minutes. Not just power it off

returnNull

Pandora2 wrote: »

Seriously lads you need to get out in the fresh air!! Any advice still welcome!

lol sez you having a sh1t fit about not being able to watch tv after breaking it with your butt :pac:

Ted_YNWA

have you tried removing the sky card for 30 second & sticking it back in again.

Logical Fallacy

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Just after seeing the OP's name is Pandora.



Must resist the urge to make a Pandora's box joke.

You should do it. Nothing better than a poorly executed attempt at humour based of a child's level of comprehension of a myth.

oldyouth

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

have you tried removing the sky card for 30 second & sticking it back in again.

And make sure you get it in to the slot smoothly straight off. Ya see, it's not always easy, is it?

Pandora2

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

have you tried removing the sky card for 30 second & sticking it back in again.

OK remember Sky card from a previous home but I can't see one near this 'box'.....is the card internal now?

RobbingBandit

OH gone away for a week, Thinly Veiled open invite to orgy at OPs house.

kowloon

There's a cover over the card slot on the new ones, I think.

Howard Juneau

Pandora2 wrote: »

OK remember Sky card from a previous home but I can't see one near this 'box'.....is the card internal now?

Look to the left of the sky box front. Around the power indicator light, should be a flap you can pull down, card will be inside there

michael999999

Check your not using the UPC remote!

Pandora2

returnNull wrote: »

lol sez you having a sh1t fit about not being able to watch tv after breaking it with your butt :pac:

Obviously any sh1t fits you have been witness to were mild in their intensity if you mistake this for one! Not a troll, not a sh1t fit ...Just a woman wanting to watch the telly on a Saturday night when her other half is working...

Pandora2

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

have you tried removing the sky card for 30 second & sticking it back in again.

Success!! A combination of Howard and Ted's advice saved the day, many thanks...

Feck all on now I suppose