Dead Sky Plus Box??

[robzter]

Hi Guys
my sky plus box turned itself off twice tonight.it has now turned off and theres no hard drive noise when i reboot and theres a beeping noise is this death????
anyone know what sky will do? i didnt take out any insurance on it.and worse is i must have lost all my sky plusses !!! BOO HOO....
is there anyway of restoring as i cant turn it on?

 

[Rob_Meister]

I wouldnt suggest calling Sky just yet - no chance then of keeping your Sky plus'd content and also high chance of having to pay out a lot of cash. Try contacting a Sky installer that will take a look as an independant job. I know there is a few on here. Who may help if local to you.

Otherwise take a look in your local yellow pages and see if you can find a Sky installer.

 

[robzter]

im in Fulham if there are any guys who can help.
Rob

 

[robzter]

called various installers none of whom would help.so i called Sky but they wanted me to go through some operation but i couldnt as im at work.its a dead box as its silent with no fan noise nothing so i doubt going through anything over the phone will help.sometimes you just want to punch SKY !!

 

[SamRadford]

Sky will charge you £65 for a call out to get a "refurbished" box with a 90 day guarantee.

I suggest you contact this guy:
http://www.digifixltd.co.uk

He should be able to fix it for you and (if the Hard Drive is OK) save all your programmes. You could maybe buy a cheap used Digibox locally to tide you over for a week?

 

[robzter]

sky are coming tomorrow already paid the 65 quid as everyone i called didnt want to touch a sky plus box.
that guy you mentioned is too far away from me in fulham but thanks.

 

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sorry to jump on your post m8 but exactly the same thing happened to mine thursday does anybody know if sky had an update and screwed up sky+ box's or is it just a horrible coincidence

 

[robzter]

could be.
mine turned itself on and off a couple of times on thurs night then went dead.
we never have it plugged in to the telephone line so it wouldnt have come thru the line.but boy do i miss it.we are watching Homechoice till tomorrow as i forgot i had it.

 

[mikesyxthsense]

Now that is odd mine has done exactly the same since the epg update
keeps switching off and cannot record

 

[pdiddy76]

Now that is odd mine has done exactly the same since the epg update
keeps switching off and cannot record

run a harddrive reset it should clear it up

 

[SamRadford]

that guy you mentioned is too far away from me in fulham but thanks.

He offers a mail order service - which is why I estimated 7 days for the turnaround.

There are other repairers that I could recommend. Google Sam Radford's repairers.

 

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how do you do a harddrive reset ? I ca'nt even watch sky at all now it turns it self of after about 1 minute

 

[ian-d]

Did they resolve your issue robzter?