Dead SKY+ box

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stutchaz

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My Satellite Setup
SKY+ Pace
Windows XP Pro
My Location
Tyneside
Hi,
Late last night I started getting a "cannot view this channel due to a technical fault" on ALL channels. Left it alone and went to bed.
Quickly checked the system settings which told me that the signal strength and quality were OK.
Got up this morning to take a look at it and after unplugging from the wall and powering on, am getting half a solid pink screen and half a blocked pink screen, no audio, no video movement, nothing.
I can hear the disk wind up (or at least try to), there are no clunking sounds I'd have expected if the disk had died.
Anyone got any ideas?
It's a Pace box about 2.75 years old and out of warranty.
The TV works OK.
 
I got that same message the other night on my Sky+ box when trying to view BBC3 or 4. Seemed to sort itself out. The channels were transmitting at the time because I picked them up on Freeview.
 
Sounds like you have very little to lose, so doing a forced update may cure the problem, if it doesn't, then it is to the repairers. I have used digirepairs.co.uk, they will also upgrade the size of the hard drive if you wish.
 
Well a forced upgrade did the trick. Everything in the planner still available.

Thanks.
 
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