Gyn_Paul Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Anyone else with an old Pace skybox finding it unresponsive to the remote control this morning?pand - no - it's not the batteries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat paul Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Mine does that from time to time, all I do is remove the Sat receiver plug from the socket wait 1 or 2 mins and plug it back in again. It works normally after, til the next time !!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 My Pace was totally locked up this morning; I suspect Sky have done a software download which may have failed....Unplugging and replugging sorted it - possibly because the old software on its EEPROM kicked back into action.But that's pure speculation on my part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I installed an on/off switch on the power cable for the sky box about 5 years ago must have saved me hours over the years guessing which cable was to the sky box and which went to the the TV,DVD,VCR etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 [quote user="Anton Redman"]I installed an on/off switch on the power cable for the sky box about 5 years ago must have saved me hours over the years guessing which cable was to the sky box and which went to the the TV,DVD,VCR etc.[/quote]Fortunately mine is sitting on top of the TV at the moment, so it's a simple matter to reach round and pull the Telefunken mains plug out of the back. I've rebooted it 3 times now and each time the problem is cured and then reappears; works fine for a few minutes, then the remote seems to become unresponsive, requiring to get to within a foot or so of the box before the box's mimic lights up in response to a button press. Once it's worked, you can then retreat to the chair again. How wierd is that ?Tomorrow, in the daylight I'm going to hunt in the shed for a LW radio and check that the mimic on the remote is telling the truth and that it really is sending a signal to the box, I don't really think it's the remote though; that avenue is more properly in the straw-clutching department.This isn't the first time that a software update has caused elderly Pace boxes to behave oddly (I suspect it's actually a patch, sent to cure some other problem, probably for a different model entirely!) : one update a few years ago had the effect that if you "simply pressed the red button" while watching a programme, it reset all the setup options to the manufacturer's defaults, with the result that the next time you accessed the TV guide there was that inane background music AGAIN !Hope they fix it soonp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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