Old SA box restarting itself
 

Hi,
I have an old Scientific Atlanta (ex-Telewest) box upstairs and it has been fine for years. However, over the last two weeks or so, it has taken to constantly restarting itself. You can be watching a programme and it will suddenly go off and cycle through the AP:xx and PL:xx numbers before showing the programme again. Five minutes later it does it all again! :mad:

Occasionally it does appear to stick on PL:03 and one a couple of occasions it has shown an Er:02 code but then just restarted itself again!

Is there anything I can do to it or does it need an engineer? Or is it on it's last legs and need to go to Set Top Box heaven? :angel:

Many thanks for your help!

Regards,
Neil

Re: Old SA box restarting itself
 

Set top box heaven. Give CS a call for your lovely new shiny replacement box.

Re: Old SA box restarting itself
 

more like lovely refurbished replacment box :)

Re: Old SA box restarting itself
 

I'd be new to him :)

Re: Old SA box restarting itself
 

Definitely time for a replacement. And when it happened to me it was a shiny new Samsung :)

Re: Old SA box restarting itself
 

Thanks for the replies - you confirmed my thoughts!

I contacted VM and they are coming tonight to replace my box - whether it is a shiny new one or a "new" refurbished one remains to be seen - but as long as it works I'll be happy!

Thanks again.
Neil