nbulos
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- Mar 24, 2007
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- Age
- 48
- My Satellite Setup
- Panasonic DSB30 with 2.5M dish
- My Location
- Jordan
When we moved to Jordan from the UK a few years ago, we brought our sky box and sky viewing card along with us and installed and activated the card using a 2.5M dish. With this setup, we were able to watch several channels (no BBC, ITV, but sky one and sky sports, which was the important thing for my husband).
Our original Amstrad digibox blew out last year (stopped receiving signal even though signal tested strong),so we purchased a used Panasonic DSB30 on ebay. The box works fine (I can receive all the free to air channels) but it cannot read our old sky card, which we have tried to activate and pair with the new box by calling sky. Even though sky has sent through the activation pulse three or four times now, we still get the message that there is a problem with the viewing card and when we look at the system details in the service menu, the line for card number reads "no card". I have tried forcing a software download, taking out card and putting it back in again, cleaning the slot with a lintfree cloth, turning box off at the mains, all to no avail. Sky insists there should be no problem with the card but are now sending us a new card. Not sure this is going to solve anything as I have tried hooking up the old Amstrad box and checking the system details on that and it seems to read the card number fine (when I pull out card it says "no card", then when I put it back in the card number shows up again).
My husband is dying to watch England v. Israel, so urgent suggested solutions would be great!
thanks,
N
Our original Amstrad digibox blew out last year (stopped receiving signal even though signal tested strong),so we purchased a used Panasonic DSB30 on ebay. The box works fine (I can receive all the free to air channels) but it cannot read our old sky card, which we have tried to activate and pair with the new box by calling sky. Even though sky has sent through the activation pulse three or four times now, we still get the message that there is a problem with the viewing card and when we look at the system details in the service menu, the line for card number reads "no card". I have tried forcing a software download, taking out card and putting it back in again, cleaning the slot with a lintfree cloth, turning box off at the mains, all to no avail. Sky insists there should be no problem with the card but are now sending us a new card. Not sure this is going to solve anything as I have tried hooking up the old Amstrad box and checking the system details on that and it seems to read the card number fine (when I pull out card it says "no card", then when I put it back in the card number shows up again).
My husband is dying to watch England v. Israel, so urgent suggested solutions would be great!
thanks,
N