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Guest · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: Weird problem with DSR 922

A couple of days ago, I had the satellite tuned to G1 8 and everything
was working perfectly. I left the satellite on because I was planning
on coming back to it after working on something else. About three
hours later, I realized that I wouldn't be able to get back to watching
it. So, I went in and was about to turn off everything when I noticed
something odd which has happened before.

G1 8 was entirely blacked and the menu itself was, well, all squiggles.
I tried other satellites and realized it was not an isolated
occurence. I'm pretty sure that I tried the digital channels, but now
I'm not sure because after having shut off the receiver for a day the
digital channels seemed to work just fine.

The weird thing is that for the analog channels, I can adjust the
receiver's audio settings to stereo instead of Videocipher Stereo, so
if the transponder is properly tuned the sound is beautiful, but I
can't see anything. Well, now I see horrible squiggles where I
originally saw only black. (Think badly scrambled porn on those old
cable systems, but that you still can't catch a glimspe of the good
stuff.) Even weirder is that MSNBC which is on G1 10 is fairly clear,
but the sound using normal stereo is somewhat crappy.

I do know there is a way to fix it because this has happened before.
Someone called Netlink because the last time it happened they had a
tech guy that fixed the problem right over the phone. I was told to
push the "Options" button then was given a sequence of buttons--just
numbers I think--to push on the remote and the problem was solved. Too
bad I don't remember what the sequence was because the person who
called found out that Netlink hasn't had technicians for six months.

Any help would be appreciated.

DRLev · Guest

Are you seeing this problem on analog ITC channels like PBS on T6-8?

Try pulling the videocipher module out if the unit and cleaning the connectors
with a pencil eraser and see what happens.

<harmier@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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|A couple of days ago, I had the satellite tuned to G1 8 and everything
| was working perfectly. I left the satellite on because I was planning
| on coming back to it after working on something else. About three
| hours later, I realized that I wouldn't be able to get back to watching
| it. So, I went in and was about to turn off everything when I noticed
| something odd which has happened before.
|
| G1 8 was entirely blacked and the menu itself was, well, all squiggles.
| I tried other satellites and realized it was not an isolated
| occurence. I'm pretty sure that I tried the digital channels, but now
| I'm not sure because after having shut off the receiver for a day the
| digital channels seemed to work just fine.
|
| The weird thing is that for the analog channels, I can adjust the
| receiver's audio settings to stereo instead of Videocipher Stereo, so
| if the transponder is properly tuned the sound is beautiful, but I
| can't see anything. Well, now I see horrible squiggles where I
| originally saw only black. (Think badly scrambled porn on those old
| cable systems, but that you still can't catch a glimspe of the good
| stuff.) Even weirder is that MSNBC which is on G1 10 is fairly clear,
| but the sound using normal stereo is somewhat crappy.
|
| I do know there is a way to fix it because this has happened before.
| Someone called Netlink because the last time it happened they had a
| tech guy that fixed the problem right over the phone. I was told to
| push the "Options" button then was given a sequence of buttons--just
| numbers I think--to push on the remote and the problem was solved. Too
| bad I don't remember what the sequence was because the person who
| called found out that Netlink hasn't had technicians for six months.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|

Guest · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: Weird problem with DSR 922

DRLev wrote:

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