Dish/LNB or TV Tuner Card

Hi

I have a HTPC that I built and use for all things entertainment.

It has a Blackgold TV card with 2 x analogue 2 x digital and 2 x Freesat
tuners.

Yesterday I noticed that I could not receive channels from Freesat so I
re-scanned for channels and Windows Media Center informed me that it
could only see analogue and digital channels.

Both of the coax cables from my dish are connected to my tuner card and
nothing is showing up in Windows device manager.

How can I tell if the dish LNB is faulty (not sending signals) or the
Freesat tuners on the card are shot? I don't have a Sky box to test for
signals.

The tuner card has worked fine up till now and I have been able to
receive BBC and ITV HD which I miss.

On 01/04/2011 20:14, Count de Monet wrote:
Hi

I have a HTPC that I built and use for all things entertainment.

It has a Blackgold TV card with 2 x analogue 2 x digital and 2 x Freesat
tuners.

Yesterday I noticed that I could not receive channels from Freesat so I
re-scanned for channels and Windows Media Center informed me that it
could only see analogue and digital channels.

Both of the coax cables from my dish are connected to my tuner card and
nothing is showing up in Windows device manager.

How can I tell if the dish LNB is faulty (not sending signals) or the
Freesat tuners on the card are shot? I don't have a Sky box to test for
signals.

The tuner card has worked fine up till now and I have been able to
receive BBC and ITV HD which I miss.

You can check whether the card is supplying volts to the LNB by using a
meter. If there are no volts then you wont get a signal back from the
LNB. The voltage changes to switch polarity. Other than that I think you
will need to resort to some spare equipment.


--
Michael Chare

On 01/04/2011 20:14, Count de Monet wrote:
Hi

I have a HTPC that I built and use for all things
entertainment.

It has a Blackgold TV card with 2 x analogue 2 x
digital and 2 x Freesat tuners.

Yesterday I noticed that I could not receive channels
from Freesat so I re-scanned for channels and Windows
Media Center informed me that it could only see
analogue and digital channels.

Both of the coax cables from my dish are connected to
my tuner card and nothing is showing up in Windows
device manager.

How can I tell if the dish LNB is faulty (not sending
signals) or the Freesat tuners on the card are shot? I
don't have a Sky box to test for signals.

The tuner card has worked fine up till now and I have
been able to receive BBC and ITV HD which I miss.

Could be dish has moved (high winds?) Dual LNB has
some common components, but you wouldn't expect both
to fail.

I would try other software than WMC. There's plenty
of free DVB software available for download.