Adam792
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2009
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- Age
- 31
- My Satellite Setup
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Dishes: 80cm (5°W), 80cm (30°W), 60cm Zone 2 (13°E/19.2°E/28.2°E)
Receivers: HTPC w/ TBS6905 4x DVB-S2 PCIe tuner card running TVHeadend, Octagon SF8008 mini.
- My Location
- Cheltenham
I got this receiver today that I bought on eBay.
Now, it works so far as it turns on and will sometimes display channels, I can always hear the sound, and lets me tune it in sucessfully, however there are the following problems:
1) The picture displays entirely at random, it's more often there on horizontal than vertical channels (Astra 1) but often not at all, it just goes black, very faint and rolling across the screen, or crackles on and off. The sound remains on throughout. Moving the LNB cable slightly affects this in that it'll make a good picture do one of the aforementioned things but not the other way around.![Confused :confused :confused](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
2) The front LED panel does not display a thing. Is it meant to?
3) The box makes the most horrible whistling/shrieking noise permenantly. I don't know whether this is normal and I can only hear it due to youth
Or if something's going wrong in there?
I hope someone can help me with these, I have a feeling I'm going to have to open the thing up when I dare. (It stinks of smoke and is absolutely nicotine encrusted.
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Now, it works so far as it turns on and will sometimes display channels, I can always hear the sound, and lets me tune it in sucessfully, however there are the following problems:
1) The picture displays entirely at random, it's more often there on horizontal than vertical channels (Astra 1) but often not at all, it just goes black, very faint and rolling across the screen, or crackles on and off. The sound remains on throughout. Moving the LNB cable slightly affects this in that it'll make a good picture do one of the aforementioned things but not the other way around.
2) The front LED panel does not display a thing. Is it meant to?
3) The box makes the most horrible whistling/shrieking noise permenantly. I don't know whether this is normal and I can only hear it due to youth
I hope someone can help me with these, I have a feeling I'm going to have to open the thing up when I dare. (It stinks of smoke and is absolutely nicotine encrusted.