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IanGuy · 30-08-2006, 23:49

I wish to continue from my previous post entitled "No Channels Available", which was a result of an electric trip in the house.

Since, everytime the cable box is turned off it seems not to be able to receive the Channel Table, which results in it being stuck on Tune.

I've gone in to the engineer menu to see what is actually going on... And I find that it is trying to acquire the NIT for quite a while... then something called SDTD, then "Looking for updates", after this all services become available.

This only happens while in the engineer's menu for some reason, if I leave the box for more than the amount it takes in the engineer's menu, it fails.

After I receive the services available (238), I still have to hold the DOWN arrow button, the set top box then boots up and all channels including on demand and interactive are available. I find it strange that; the signal is available, and that if I unplug the box, the same thing will have to be done again.

If I skip the engineer's menu step, I will hold the down arrow and the box will boot up okay, although no channels will be available, only the channel "0" is available with no information or stream.

Seems to me like a memory problem, where the frequency is forgotten.

I've also seen errors such as "Can't lock to last tuned" and "Can't lock to home frequency"

30-08-2006, 23:49	#1
IanGuy Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Services: V+, 2nd STB, Virgin Phone, Virgin 20mb Posts: 277	NIT Scan Failed I wish to continue from my previous post entitled "No Channels Available", which was a result of an electric trip in the house. Since, everytime the cable box is turned off it seems not to be able to receive the Channel Table, which results in it being stuck on Tune. I've gone in to the engineer menu to see what is actually going on... And I find that it is trying to acquire the NIT for quite a while... then something called SDTD, then "Looking for updates", after this all services become available. This only happens while in the engineer's menu for some reason, if I leave the box for more than the amount it takes in the engineer's menu, it fails. After I receive the services available (238), I still have to hold the DOWN arrow button, the set top box then boots up and all channels including on demand and interactive are available. I find it strange that; the signal is available, and that if I unplug the box, the same thing will have to be done again. If I skip the engineer's menu step, I will hold the down arrow and the box will boot up okay, although no channels will be available, only the channel "0" is available with no information or stream. Seems to me like a memory problem, where the frequency is forgotten. I've also seen errors such as "Can't lock to last tuned" and "Can't lock to home frequency"