Free Sat Glitch

edited April 2011 in Chit chat
We have a goodmans free sat box, fairly basic.

It goes into standy on it's own. When I turn it on, it works fine for about five minutes, then it starts buggering about.

Our telly, keeps switching between channel 5 which is the channel it's on, and AV1 on which it will also work. It does this for between 5 and 15 minutes, and then settles down and works fine.

each time it switches we lose sound and picture

I know it's the telly channel that is changing, but I'm pretty sure the free sat box is causing it, maybe power fluctuation or something.

anyone else had this problem?
Post edited by thx1138 on

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  • edited April 2011
    I've seen that before at a friends house. It was caused by his freesat box getting too warm. He replaced it in the end.
    So far, so meh :)
  • fogfog
    edited April 2011
    any firmware updates for it ? in the setup menu.

    if it's under a year , replace it I guess. goodmans is a brand thats not top of my shopping list due to build quality of previous things I have by them.
  • edited April 2011
    I've had a look at the menu and it's configured to upgrade automatically, whilst there I turned off auto-standby, so I'll see if that eliminates the problems to some degree.
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