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I setup and installed my Dish 6000 system this past Tuesday. I also installed the 8VSB tuner module on Thursday. I live in an area where reception isn't the greatest, but I was able to lock in my local PBS station with 60-70% signal strength. My other two locals was around 45-50%, but for the most part was stable. This worked great until yesterday. PBS kept pixelating and dropping the signal, and the other stations would randomly lock and unlock. Watching the signal strength meter in the Local Channels feature, I saw the my signal strength would jump to over 70% and then drop to 0. It keeps jumping up to a reasonable strength, locks for a minute or less, then drops back to 0. This wasn't happening the other day, and I was getting a very stable picture with PBS.
Here's the worse part. While the thing kept locking and unlocking on the signal, the whole receiver locked up. And I mean locked up. I couldn't even power it off, with the remote or the front panel power button. What's worse, I heard the fan stop on the 8vsb module. I had to unplug the receiver and plug it back in in order to get picture back. I've had to do this several times over the last day or so, and can't get a reliable lock, and I'm tired of having to hard boot the thing every time this happens and worried about burning up my 8vsb tuner. The fan always comes back on after I reboot the receiver.
Everything else works fine. When I'm watching HD channels off the Dish satellites, there's no problem. Everything else seems to be working great. I ran the main unit diagnostic and everything checked out fine. I've contacted Dish tech support, and am awaiting their response. But I wanted to check with this group as well to see if anyone else has had a similar problem, or if this is clearly a bad 8vsb module that I should have replaced. I bought everything at Dish Depot, so getting it replaced should be no problem. I've read about other problems with the receiver automatically rebooting, but nothing about it locking up completely like this. My current os is 691P, which I believe was supposed to fix the previous problem.
I'm open to any suggestions.. Thanks in advance!
I setup and installed my Dish 6000 system this past Tuesday. I also installed the 8VSB tuner module on Thursday. I live in an area where reception isn't the greatest, but I was able to lock in my local PBS station with 60-70% signal strength. My other two locals was around 45-50%, but for the most part was stable. This worked great until yesterday. PBS kept pixelating and dropping the signal, and the other stations would randomly lock and unlock. Watching the signal strength meter in the Local Channels feature, I saw the my signal strength would jump to over 70% and then drop to 0. It keeps jumping up to a reasonable strength, locks for a minute or less, then drops back to 0. This wasn't happening the other day, and I was getting a very stable picture with PBS.
Here's the worse part. While the thing kept locking and unlocking on the signal, the whole receiver locked up. And I mean locked up. I couldn't even power it off, with the remote or the front panel power button. What's worse, I heard the fan stop on the 8vsb module. I had to unplug the receiver and plug it back in in order to get picture back. I've had to do this several times over the last day or so, and can't get a reliable lock, and I'm tired of having to hard boot the thing every time this happens and worried about burning up my 8vsb tuner. The fan always comes back on after I reboot the receiver.
Everything else works fine. When I'm watching HD channels off the Dish satellites, there's no problem. Everything else seems to be working great. I ran the main unit diagnostic and everything checked out fine. I've contacted Dish tech support, and am awaiting their response. But I wanted to check with this group as well to see if anyone else has had a similar problem, or if this is clearly a bad 8vsb module that I should have replaced. I bought everything at Dish Depot, so getting it replaced should be no problem. I've read about other problems with the receiver automatically rebooting, but nothing about it locking up completely like this. My current os is 691P, which I believe was supposed to fix the previous problem.
I'm open to any suggestions.. Thanks in advance!