sky box engineer tricks

[Manic01]

Italian skybox will already be on 13e.

[Nutsandbolts]

Hi Manic. Thanks for reply. They get Italian channels in Italy using TIVUSAT box and dont use sky box anymore thats why they want to bring it to London to give to my cousin. I just need to know if it can be tuned manually for Hotbird or will it pick up channels automatically. Regards.

[Manic01]

If its a Sky italia stb then it's for 13e already.

[Nutsandbolts]

Thanks. I dont know if its a sky box like in the UK or standard STB. I will know in 2 weeks and see what happens. Thanks for your input. Take care.

[Nutsandbolts]

Hi guys. Got the Sky box from Italy working on Hotbird for my cousin. It's an AMSTRAD DRX500i box made in China. It has an out of date Sky card and was wondering if the card can be re-activated free of charge. Thanks for your help.

[Maggieh]

Just wondering about my sky+ hd box, a few weeks ago we bought a new tv and connected the sky up to it ourselves. Once we turned on the tv, record would't work and it also says programme synopsis not available on every programme, there are more problems but these are the main ones. An engineer came to the house to install multiroom for us, so I asked him if he could fix it. He bent down to the sky box and appeared to push a button on the back, a notification popped on the screen saying something like it would be finished in ten minutes. The engineer said that when the box went off that I was to turn it back on and it would be fixed. So I did, and it worked. You're probably wondering why I'm even posting now then. I ended up having to remove the HDMI cable from the back and when I turned it back on, the record etc. wouldn't work, to my frustration. I thought I would simply look at the back of the box and find a reset button...but to no avail. I can't for the life of me figure out how he managed to reset it so quickly. In addition to this, all of my recordings and series links remained on the box when I turned it back on. If the answer to this question is in the download on thread page one then no need to reply, as I have to post in order to read it. Thanks

[dmcforest]

HI All, Just registered.I have a Sky HD Box and I cancelled my subscription a month ago so last night as expected I lost most of my channels but I didn't expect to lose BBC1 HD.
I believe I need Symbol Rate 23000 to tune this channel and my Sky Box doesn't have this option.Is there anyway round this problem ?
I was really looking forward to watching the remaining games of Euro 2012 and BBC1 HD has all these games.Hope some of ye guys can help me out.
Thanks,
Dermot

[dick b]

heres some info on forced downloads card pairing etc all tried and tested on DRX 595

[Damidgaf]

HP-52J Error Message

Hi All,
I've got a Thomson Sky HD box which all of a sudden has come up with this system fault HP-52J - unable to view recordings or record.
I have noticed that when the receiver is switched on after power has been removed, the hard drive is heard to 'run up' but then there are two sometimes three 'beeps' heard.

1. Have tried Software Update - no change.

2. Have tried a planner re-build using the remote but after the message 'Carrying Out Houskeeping Please Wait' appears for a fraction of a second nothing happens!

3. Have tried re-formatting using the front panel L&R buttons, the Sky blue ring flashes but when L&R buttons are released and Select is pressed the receiver goes to stand-by mode and re-boots after about a minute!

4. Have installed Copy+ on to PC and backed up all my recordings as an image file on my PC and using Disk Manager deleted the partition on the Sky Box hard drive; then copied the image back on to the hard drive - I do believe by doing this it re-formats the hard drive before copying the files.

5. Once the files had been copied I recieved a message informing me that some system files had been damaged on the source disk - I assume that is the image file. Anyway after fitting the hard drive back into the receiver and switching it on, I again carried out a System Software Update - problem still exists!!!

6. Have also noticed that information for any programme can only be viewed when that programme has been selected.

7. All the Capacitors on the PSU where replaced about 6 months ago.

Can anybody help

[podell911]

DRX 895-C 1Tb freeze

Hi, I am new to this but our DRX 895-C will freeze about once or twice a week. Forced reset gets it working again but is not a perminant cure. On older boxes this type of problem was fixed by replacing the capacitors in the PSU (now integrated on the mother board) Has anyone tried replacing these? What was the result?

[chrisjeb]

Slow sky HD+ box problem

Hi guys,
I found this site while trying to get info on the slow sky box problem, and I am glad I did as it would appear from reading this that I am not the only one with this problem. I have found that replacing the batteries in the remote control makes a bit of difference to the speed but doesn't totally fix the problem, so from what I have read I may need to either do a reset or defragment the disk. I will probably try the latter first and see how I get on. Thanks to all the people who have posted such useful info on this site.

Chris.

[garyscdti]

Hi I have an Amstrad Sky HD box 500gig and it says 3D on the front to if that helps with what the model number is (DRX890?).

I have a problem of no being able to turn the bugger off!

The LED flashes to show its accepting the signal (I even tried turning it off on the box) but it still refuses to turn off.
So I have to kill the power to do it. Its ok for a few days then goes again. Never had any trouble turning it on though.

Anyone else had this?

[garyscdti]

I sorted my problem. I did a forced software update and now use a REV9 remote.Don't know which of these changes fixed it but it has.

[Antis172]

hI I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING EVERY WERE FOR THIS TYPE ON INFO...
NEADLESS TO SAY MY SKYBOX HAS JUST GONE DOWN,,,AFTER I REFUSED XTRA WARRENTY FROM SKYS TELEPHONE CALL!!! HMMM SMELL A PLOT .

MANY THANKS
ARC

I think you may have a point, got acall from warranty company tonight , politely told him where he stick his warranty, lo and behold within a couple of hours no record function gone. coincidence!!! I dont think so, does SKY think we are stupid, we know full well that function is controled by them, just who do they think they are foolin!!!!

[benny7]

recoding sky with no sky subscription

i have cancelled sky i still have some programmes on my box that i recorded is there any way of watching these
also anyway i can still record with out having to pay sky for it cheers