sky box engineer tricks

[theskrebs]

I tried that. All the pressing button permutations on the net have been tried. The box will not start up. I've formatted a 40gig pc HD and will try that in place of the original.

[theskrebs]

Had a go at starting her up with the cover off. No sign of the HD trying to spin up. Then the red standby light went out. Tried again - no standby light, all connections tight. Looks like a dead PSU. Ordering a replacement from ebay. Will take about a week but I'll update when the replacement PSU has been fitted.

[opsmonkey]

sound like a psu problem mate, it wont be the HDD

[fluorescent]

Seems you have a problem with a capacitor on the power suply, i fix a lot of sky boxes with this problem.
Take a look of capacitors of PSU if they are broken and remplace it with new one, but take care to put it right because they are polarity marked.
On this page you see what i talkin about:
Spares for Sky digibox and other receivers
You can save some money and get satisfaction to repair your skybox

[tbc1968]

is there anyway of locking a sky+ remote to prevent people using it

thanks

[VU4ME]

No mate not possible.

[skywalker060]

Hello people, I'm a total newbie to Sky boxes and Satellite, I have an old Grundig standard skybox which will not rescan for new channels and had lost others such as channel five, although i could manually search for this. I have tried to to a factory reset as well as software update ( which freezes ) to no avail. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance !

[EAMO 2]

Hello people, I'm a total newbie to Sky boxes and Satellite, I have an old Grundig standard skybox which will not rescan for new channels and had lost others such as channel five, although i could manually search for this. I have tried to to a factory reset as well as software update ( which freezes ) to no avail. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance !

Have you looked at tutorial on page 1 of this thread

[thunderchief]

reliability

The general reliability of these Sky boxes is so poor it's unreal!

[Chasser]

The general reliability of these Sky boxes is so poor it's unreal!

I agree my box is 2 months old nd I have a 10-7 system fault which will result in me losing my lanner and recordings.

[EAMO 2]

I agree my box is 2 months old nd I have a 10-7 system fault which will result in me losing my lanner and recordings.

Chaser, I haven't used S*y box for a while, wondering exactly
what 10-7 system fault

[Chasser]

From what I can gather it means the HDD has either got some form of software corruption or the HDD is knackered.

Since posting my initial post I have tried a STAGE 3 reset everything went as per instructons but 10-7 still there.

I then tried a SKY+ rebuild from the engineers menu 0,0,1. I have now lost my picture but I still have sound on my TV. Any ideas?

[Chasser]

I did a quick google and the answer wasa to unplug and turn back on!

I still cannot use SKY+ recording, rewind, planner, etc. Are there any options other than resetting and losing recordings?

[EAMO 2]

From what I can gather it means the HDD has either got some form of software corruption or the HDD is knackered.

Since posting my initial post I have tried a STAGE 3 reset everything went as per instructons but 10-7 still there.

I then tried a SKY+ rebuild from the engineers menu 0,0,1. I have now lost my picture but I still have sound on my TV. Any ideas?

Thanks for info Chaser I have several S*Y+ boxes I don't use &
may give to nearby OAP's as FTA so like to keep uptodate
Have never tried this but should work OK if you have time;
1. Connect scart(or AV-r;w;y) from S*Y box to DVD-recorder.
2. On DVD-rec menu; Select source(scart-in or similar) to show
output from S*Y+ box
3. Play desired recordings & record on DVD-rec hard-drive
4. When all saved films have been copied to DVD-rec you can
reset S*Y+box & sort it out

P.S. Sound & no vision on S*Y+box
Check settings in menu
Check SCART has not been disturbed

[Chasser]

Nice idea - and uniquely not one I've seen suggested anywhere else!!

1. The planner doesn't exist so my recordings are not viewable/playable so therefore not recordable .

2. However you give me another idea - could my HDD be swapped into another SKY+ box and maybe all my recordings would "reappear"?