Sky+doesn't work at all

Hello

I had Sky+ installed on Friday using 2 Sky+ boxes, one I bought myself &
the other was part of the £99 + £10 muliti room upgrade offer.

Sky works on both boxes however I cannot record, live pause,nor instant
rewind. If I try to access my personal planner the system freezes. In
fact anything other than changing channels causes the system to freeze,
when only a reboot will work. More than once trying to change channels
caused the system to freeze. Sometimes after a reboot the set does not
respond to the remote control & needs to be rebooted again. I have
rebooted over 30 times today.

I cannot believe that both boxes or both remotes are faulty so can
any-one suggest what could be the problem, please.

I am getting signals from all inputs although the signals do vary
considerably.

Henry

Henry Stable wrote:
Hello

I had Sky+ installed on Friday using 2 Sky+ boxes, one I bought myself &
the other was part of the £99 + £10 muliti room upgrade offer.

Sky works on both boxes however I cannot record, live pause,nor instant
rewind. If I try to access my personal planner the system freezes. In
fact anything other than changing channels causes the system to freeze,
when only a reboot will work. More than once trying to change channels
caused the system to freeze. Sometimes after a reboot the set does not
respond to the remote control & needs to be rebooted again. I have
rebooted over 30 times today.

I cannot believe that both boxes or both remotes are faulty so can
any-one suggest what could be the problem, please.

I am getting signals from all inputs although the signals do vary
considerably.

I assume you have phoned Sky to activate the Sky+ features on both boxes ?
If this has not been done the boxes simply act as standard digiboxes.

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Mark
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Mark Carver wrote:

Henry Stable wrote:

Hello

I had Sky+ installed on Friday using 2 Sky+ boxes, one I bought myself
& the other was part of the £99 + £10 muliti room upgrade offer.

Sky works on both boxes however I cannot record, live pause,nor
instant rewind. If I try to access my personal planner the system
freezes. In fact anything other than changing channels causes the
system to freeze, when only a reboot will work. More than once trying
to change channels caused the system to freeze. Sometimes after a
reboot the set does not respond to the remote control & needs to be
rebooted again. I have rebooted over 30 times today.

I cannot believe that both boxes or both remotes are faulty so can
any-one suggest what could be the problem, please.

I am getting signals from all inputs although the signals do vary
considerably.


I assume you have phoned Sky to activate the Sky+ features on both boxes ?
If this has not been done the boxes simply act as standard digiboxes.

Thanks Mark. Yes both boxes were activated & on Friday everything
worked. I recorded a film & watched the recording The first I thought
something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.

The other box isn't as tempremental, although I cannot record, playback
the one thing that I have recorded (saying that there is no satelite
signal?) or instant rewind.

An engineer is now due to call on Friday, it's all a bit disappointing

Henry

Henry Stable wrote:

something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.

The other box isn't as tempremental, although I cannot record, playback
the one thing that I have recorded (saying that there is no satelite
signal?) or instant rewind.

You probably have a dish/LNB problem. Try swapping the feeds over to
see what happens.

If not the drives and/or 2nd tuners are probably dead.

What are your 4 signal quality readings?

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Jomtien wrote:
Henry Stable wrote:


something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.

The other box isn't as tempremental, although I cannot record, playback
the one thing that I have recorded (saying that there is no satelite
signal?) or instant rewind.


You probably have a dish/LNB problem. Try swapping the feeds over to
see what happens.

If not the drives and/or 2nd tuners are probably dead.

What are your 4 signal quality readings?


On Box 1 the signal readings a

Input 1 Strength 80%
Quality 70%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 60/70%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 60%
Quality 75%

Input 2 has no signal so that clears up the recording issue. I have
checked the feeds into the box and it's okay so it must be at the other
end. This accords with your suggestion that it might be a dish/LNB problem.

Excuse naive question but what do you mean by swapping feeds over please?

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Jomtien wrote:
Henry Stable wrote:


something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.

The other box isn't as tempremental, although I cannot record, playback
the one thing that I have recorded (saying that there is no satelite
signal?) or instant rewind.


You probably have a dish/LNB problem. Try swapping the feeds over to
see what happens.

If not the drives and/or 2nd tuners are probably dead.

What are your 4 signal quality readings?


On Box 1 the signal readings a

Input 1 Strength 80%
Quality 70%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 60/70%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 60%
Quality 75%

Input 2 has no signal so that clears up the recording issue. I have
checked the feeds into the box and it's okay so it must be at the other
end. This accords with your suggestion that it might be a dish/LNB
problem.

Excuse naive question but what do you mean by swapping feeds over please?

Jomtien means disconnect the Co-ax from I/P 1 and connect it to I/P 2
and visa versa, on each box,
then do the strength / quality tests again
HTH
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Yddap wrote:

"Henry Stable" wrote in message
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Jomtien wrote:

Henry Stable wrote:



something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.

The other box isn't as tempremental, although I cannot record, playback
the one thing that I have recorded (saying that there is no satelite
signal?) or instant rewind.


You probably have a dish/LNB problem. Try swapping the feeds over to
see what happens.

If not the drives and/or 2nd tuners are probably dead.

What are your 4 signal quality readings?


On Box 1 the signal readings a

Input 1 Strength 80%
Quality 70%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 60/70%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 60%
Quality 75%

Input 2 has no signal so that clears up the recording issue. I have
checked the feeds into the box and it's okay so it must be at the other
end. This accords with your suggestion that it might be a dish/LNB
problem.

Excuse naive question but what do you mean by swapping feeds over please?


Jomtien means disconnect the Co-ax from I/P 1 and connect it to I/P 2
and visa versa, on each box,
then do the strength / quality tests again
HTH

Thanks Yddap. After switching over the leads the creadings a

Box 1

Input 1 Strength 75%
Quality 75%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 75%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 75%
Quality 80%
Input 2 Still no signal

Henry

Hi,

In article ,
Henry wrote:
Box 2

Input 1 Strength 75%
Quality 80%
Input 2 Still no signal

No signal on input 2 of a Sky+ box is usually an indication of hard disk
failure.

Andy

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Yddap wrote:

"Henry Stable" wrote in message
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Jomtien wrote:

Henry Stable wrote:



something was amiss was when all recordings made on Saturday failed &
there were occasional "freezings". On one box this has got so bad that
anything I attempt, other than changing channels, causes the system to
lock up.


On Box 1 the signal readings a

Input 1 Strength 80%
Quality 70%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 60/70%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 60%
Quality 75%



Jomtien means disconnect the Co-ax from I/P 1 and connect it to I/P 2
and visa versa, on each box,
then do the strength / quality tests again
HTH

Thanks Yddap. After switching over the leads the creadings a

Box 1

Input 1 Strength 75%
Quality 75%
Input 2 Strength 50%
Quality 75%

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 75% Quality 80%
Input 2 Still no signal

Henry

You will have to wait till Friday for the Sky Tech
Looks like Box #2 is dead as far as SKY+ is concerned
get him to check the whole set up
SKY DID install the 2nd box you bought from Ebay ?
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Yddap
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Andy Hawkins wrote:
Hi,

In article ,
Henry wrote:

Box 2

Input 1 Strength 75%
Quality 80%
Input 2 Still no signal


No signal on input 2 of a Sky+ box is usually an indication of hard disk
failure.

Andy

oh dear :-(