Recent content by Pete6

Rolf, Move it if you feel it should go somewhere else but I did not know where this was going to end up when I started. It is actually a rather good description of a fairly common fault that is most easily fixed bu replacing the tuner daughter board so maybe it should stay so that others may...

One should also remeber that Michael helped me out over the phone when there was no chance of him making a sale. I was, in fact, wasting his time. I asked his permission to post the email he sent me because I was happy to have fixed MY problem and I wanted to give him some minor publicity...

Well, it works now and I'm happy. In fact, tis kind of thing is not so rare in chip manufacturer. The silver dendrite grows within the chip along the substrate and not across the external pins. This is why you can't clean it with a wire brush! Remember that I was seeing good signal...

Fixed, working upgraded --- thanks to: Michael Dranfield. Digifix Ltd. 16,Terrace road, Buxton , Derbyshire. SK17-6DU. +44 01298- 73989. www.digifixltd.co.uk who sent me the following article he has published. Pace ZIF tuner failure. Tuner failure in pace satellite receiver boxes is now one...

Well I left it on overnight (about 10 hours) and this morning, it it still displaying the UPDATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE message and the four LEDs are still lit up on the front panel. I think that this box is screwed. I believe that the downlink protocol is unable to be received (understood) by the...

Rolf, Here's the information you asked for: Mfg : Pace Model No. : 1.3Z25 Version No.: 9F0306 Serila No. : 0028366078 Card : No Card O/S Version: 1.2S4FB EPG version: 3.b.5 Does this help? Is there a way out of where I am?

I have gone down this route several times. I will try it one more time overnight tonight and again for the next few nights. If it does not work then, I'll bin it and buy another one. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the reply. Is this really the only option? Is there no way to force a hardware reset back to it's factory defaults even if the button is inside the box? Yes, you are right, they are cheap. I paid less than £25 for this one on ebay including shipping. THAT was the attraction....

I have two Pace 2500 boxes. One is my own Sky system and has a Sky card in it and is working fine. I have a second receiver that I wish to use in a spare room on a second dish with no card. I have just tried to update the EPG software and after 2 hours, the box is stuck in updating system...