Skybox F5s problem, dim red light with "8" displaying on front of receiver

[mleczus1]

I got the Dull 8 problem. I found a guy advertising that he could fix this and most problems with Skybox. He would charge me ?12 if he could fix it or refund if he could not. So i posted it off to him and within a week got it back fully working again. Well worth the money as i was about to put it in the bin.

ebay is it ?

[Colsnr]

Yes it was. Can give you a link if wanted. Return postage included.

[mleczus1]

Thanks. I try to find solution myself. Maybe one day someone will help.

[plasterer]

All the helps there mate.just follow the instructions.......Paul

[mleczus1]

Like I said did all I could with all instructions. Still no luck

[dotcomsimon]

Hi,
I'm fairly new to this, Ive had my F5S for about a month now and have had no problems whatsoever (touch wood)
Ok, so last night I decided to unplug the F5S and take it upstairs to watch, Unplugged all the cables and plugged my upstairs cables in, turn the box on POOF! a dim 8 with red light, Then the box counts up to 100 and then flashes the dim red 8 and reboots counting up to 100 again followed by the dim red 8, It just kept looping over and over.
I tried unplugging various cables and plugging them back in - No matter what nothing would stop it looping.

After trawling through various web pages basically everyone seems to think its buggered so I thought i'd return it,

Took it downstairs and without thinking plugged it back in POOF! all working again like nothing happened!

The only thing I can think off is maybe the upstairs sockets might be overloaded, I had the box in an extension lead with laptop,tv and blu-ray player in same 4 gang extension

My downstairs setup is very similar however the extension socket downstairs has built in surge protection (about?20 from argos) - Now I dont know if this is a solution for anyone else but it worked for me

[Hadron]

dotcomsimon...when you had the box upstairs, did you try booting the box with the LNB cable disconnected?

Sometimes a rebooting problem is caused by a short circuit in the LNB cable.

It wouldn't have anything to do with the mains connection.

[dotcomsimon]

dotcomsimon...when you had the box upstairs, did you try booting the box with the LNB cable disconnected?

Sometimes a rebooting problem is caused by a short circuit in the LNB cable.

It wouldn't have anything to do with the mains connection.

Ah! sorry didn't realise that, no I didn't try without the LNB, I thought that because it was taken out of the back of my current working official skybox (only FTA channels) it was a case of straight swapping, Might have another go later

[jlcpana]

I have the same problem code 8 and the dim red light, help, can not get the firmware update

[ColinsPlace]

I also now have 4 of these dead boxes - faint no 8 , can't seem to do anything , with them ?

[Wallace69erus]

Hi I did this upgrade now it asking me for a pass code to get into the menus do u know wat they are

[mickzer]

Try 0000 or 6666..

[Hadron]

Hi I did this upgrade now it asking me for a pass code to get into the menus do u know wat they are

If 0000 doesn't work, try 3327.

[tomjames123]

Hi could i have the link to the ?12 fix it dood, I've come to this last resort prior to throwing mine in the bin.
Regards

[dredlox]

Just aquired an f5s with the same problem, tryed my power supply from my f5 and it worked... seems to be a psu issue.

checked the voltage of the psu i got with it and its only outputing 5v....mine 12v