On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:24:22 +0000, Moldy
wrote:

| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:55 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:

|
| Thanks for all your help with this prob Dave... Really looking forward
| to getting the Sky EPG back as soon as the card comes. Can't f*#%ing
| stand the damn Nokia box...

Please report back here when you get it running.
As an ex-engineer I like to test absolutely *everything*.
Advertising something which I have not tested is against my ?religion?, ;-)

Dave F

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:03:23 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:24:22 +0000, Moldy
wrote:

| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:55 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:

|
| Thanks for all your help with this prob Dave... Really looking forward
| to getting the Sky EPG back as soon as the card comes. Can't f*#%ing
| stand the damn Nokia box...

Please report back here when you get it running.
As an ex-engineer I like to test absolutely *everything*.
Advertising something which I have not tested is against my ?religion?, ;-)


Will do, ordered it last thursday so it should be here some time
before Weds next week (28th) (they said up to 10 days on the phone).
As long as the wife isn't watching something I should have it all up
and running the evening the card arrives...

In the mean time, I can post the exact details of getting my box
resurrected on Thurs after nearly a year on a shelf gathering dust.

I plugged it all back in and it popped up on 998 with a "searching for
listings message" took a couple of minutes to channel scan and then I
could get the BBC channels but not some of the others. I checked Game
Network and FTV which I knew should be FTA, didn't bother checking any
higher at that point. They both reported "technical fault". So I
forced a software update and a few minutes later the box came on with
all FTA channels. "Woo hoo" I shouted. 10 minutes later, I had ordered
the Next Gen card.

--


Moldy

The only difference between crap and art, is that art has brass name plates below it

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:03:23 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:24:22 +0000, Moldy
wrote:

| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:55 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:

|
| Thanks for all your help with this prob Dave... Really looking forward
| to getting the Sky EPG back as soon as the card comes. Can't f*#%ing
| stand the damn Nokia box...

Please report back here when you get it running.
As an ex-engineer I like to test absolutely *everything*.
Advertising something which I have not tested is against my ?religion?, ;-)


Will do, ordered it last thursday so it should be here some time
before Weds next week (28th) (they said up to 10 days on the phone).
As long as the wife isn't watching something I should have it all up
and running the evening the card arrives...

In the mean time, I can post the exact details of getting my box
resurrected on Thurs after nearly a year on a shelf gathering dust.

I plugged it all back in and it popped up on 998 with a "searching for
listings message" took a couple of minutes to channel scan and then I
could get the BBC channels but not some of the others. I checked Game
Network and FTV which I knew should be FTA, didn't bother checking any
higher at that point. They both reported "technical fault". So I
forced a software update and a few minutes later the box came on with
all FTA channels. "Woo hoo" I shouted. 10 minutes later, I had ordered
the Next Gen card.

--


Moldy

The only difference between crap and art, is that art has brass name plates below it

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:03:23 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:24:22 +0000, Moldy
wrote:

| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:55 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:

|
| Thanks for all your help with this prob Dave... Really looking forward
| to getting the Sky EPG back as soon as the card comes. Can't f*#%ing
| stand the damn Nokia box...

Please report back here when you get it running.
As an ex-engineer I like to test absolutely *everything*.
Advertising something which I have not tested is against my ?religion?, ;-)

Dave F

Dave,

Got the box up and running again with the FTV card and none of the
channels would load so forced ANOTHER software update and all was OK!
Woohoo!

2 days later, not so Woohoo :-( Box overheats and dies again...
totally fried this time, 2 days of cooling off under the stairs
(coldest part of the house) and it cannot be saved..

So, I just bought a nice Sony 760 from eBay which turned up today and
I will be installing it tonight.

Just got to figure out something better for ventilation... thinking of
putting some quiet fans on the cabinet, one intake one exhaust, just
like my PC... Does anyone know of such an item, which will run off
normal 240v?

--


Moldy

The only difference between crap and art, is that art has brass name plates below it

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:03:23 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:24:22 +0000, Moldy
wrote:

| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:13:55 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
| wrote:

|
| Thanks for all your help with this prob Dave... Really looking forward
| to getting the Sky EPG back as soon as the card comes. Can't f*#%ing
| stand the damn Nokia box...

Please report back here when you get it running.
As an ex-engineer I like to test absolutely *everything*.
Advertising something which I have not tested is against my ?religion?, ;-)

Dave F

Dave,

Got the box up and running again with the FTV card and none of the
channels would load so forced ANOTHER software update and all was OK!
Woohoo!

2 days later, not so Woohoo :-( Box overheats and dies again...
totally fried this time, 2 days of cooling off under the stairs
(coldest part of the house) and it cannot be saved..

So, I just bought a nice Sony 760 from eBay which turned up today and
I will be installing it tonight.

Just got to figure out something better for ventilation... thinking of
putting some quiet fans on the cabinet, one intake one exhaust, just
like my PC... Does anyone know of such an item, which will run off
normal 240v?

--


Moldy

The only difference between crap and art, is that art has brass name plates below it