Recent content by deep0dark

Thank you for your message. To be honest, to me it is no use confirming that power is too low if there's simply nothing I can do about that. If I know in advance that there's something I can do make the problem go away, I would go through the trouble of asking my satellite guy to measure the...

Thank you very much for your message. I might have understood what needs to be done, but I'm afraid I'd have no idea how to actually do it. I understood it's important to be sure what exactly the problem is, but if it is indeed a power problem, what do you think my options are?

Sorry, I would not know how to check it... the dish is on the roof of a 4 storey building so I'm reluctant to ask friends to play Philippe Petit while I play with the PC downstairs. :-DOH! If there was a relatively simple way to push up the power, that would be great. I read something about a...

Dear Llew, Thank you for your kind reply. I just tried to remove the molex cable from the card, and after about 5 minutes of vigorous clicking ;) I only managed to move the dish a little bit, not enough to move it entirely to the position I requested. So the writing on the wall seems to...

I forgot to add: when a regular satellite decoder box is connected to this coax cable, it moves the antenna correctly without fail every time. It's a very strange problem. If PC could not move the antenna at all, I would just accept it and move on. But it can move it, just erratically. So I...

Friends I have a PC (running Vista) with a SS 2 HD PCI card, and a motorised (SG2100) 1m dish which is connected to the PC with a 12m coax cable The PC is brand new. With this setup, I can watch channels, SD and HD, everything works like clockwork. EXCEPT one thing: moving the motor only...