[petero]

Hi all
Here's a tale but true
I have two virgin media V+ boxes, one down stairs (that's fine) exept for occasional freezing ect. the other is in my bed room. my wife's diassabled and watches a lot of tv, it's all she's got. Anyway, over a period of time the problems with her box has been getting worse, trouble with getting the box to come on, pixilation, vertical lines similar to what you would see on an old 405 line tv set and finally the sceen went half white and half black, no picture just audio.
Thinking that it was the tv, I borrowed my sons lg tv from his room to test the box out, but when my son tried to connect the scart lead from the V+ to the tv he got a shock from the lead, thinking it might just be static he tried to plug it in, at which point there was a blue flash and all the electric went off. this was so intense it partially melted one of the scart lead pins
when we got the virgin media engineer out he tried a new box, same thing only this time the box wasn't even pluged in. he said there was a major fault on my electrics, therfore not virgins fault.
I got electricians out they tested my electics out, all fine, one tried to plug the scart lead in, bang, flashes, does anyone know what could be going on here because I havn't got a clue

petero