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    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Very many THANKS Rolf, JuMbuCk,Rob and Jacko. With the invaluable help you all gave, my digi is back in buisness.I have also learnt some other aspects of these receivers, hitherto unknown to me. One caution though, for those with similar problems to mine, please also go to the Option section...
  2. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Thank you Rob again. Unfortunately on pressing OK the message 'Saving data' appears and after about 5 secs the message 'Tuning Finalised' appears. But the problem still persists. The Technomate online instruction gives the following ,as well. If Satellites or channels are not found or saved...
  3. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Thank you Jacko for your suggestion. Before attempting a software download as advised by Rob, I tried 2011 and presto it worked and I was able to access hotbird 6.But the the reception was not up to the former quality and strength. So on checking back the figures I fed,I noticed they were...
  4. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Thanks again Rolf for your continued support. As a complete novice would you please advise how to re-boot and re-load software and how to access/get hold, of the software. Would they be outside the realms of my capabilities?
  5. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Thank you JuMbuck for your response. Your suggestion on password does not work either. Also, I wonder why the clock has frozen at an earlier set time. Could the problems be due to a faulty dish or dish to receiver connection? Seems a mystery!
  6. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Hi Rolf , Since writing the last thread to day, I had another try. Now every item in the menu asks for password, when fed chucks it out saying 'the password does not match' Seems I got into a deeper mess. Thanks
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    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Hi Rolf Thanks for the guidance. According to the manual, feeding in the password is an essential prerequisite for factory default settings.Having done that I got to the point when ' The reset factory default are restored' appeared on the screen and the manual asked to press 'y' button. As this...
  8. J

    TM-5500 D Technomate

    Hi, Have been functioning well for two years.It gave up the ghost today with a message 'no channel list'. It was tuned to Hotbird 6 but on checking, the original settings have changed. Tried to reset but some of the parameters names are not on the screen. Being a novice I remain clueless. Please...
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