Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-06 Thread VDR User
Peer, glad you got to the root of the problem. Fried lnb's should be a pretty cheap replacement. :) Luca, I was referring to doing some homework on the mainboards before you buy. Read reviews, has the product held it's market value well?, are you seeing a lot of them for sale used. All these t

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-06 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na VDR User ha escrit: > Yeah, I know how to tell if a capacitor is bad, went to college for > electronic engineering. In all my years of working with electronics I > have never seen a capacitor blow because a device was left on for a > long period of time and then turned off. Yes, those we

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread VDR User
On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En/na VDR User ha escrit: > > On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, > >> leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back > >> on (us

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na VDR User ha escrit: > On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, >> leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back >> on (usually capacitors are to blame). > > Where did you hear this?

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread VDR User
On 7/5/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, > leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back > on (usually capacitors are to blame). Where did you hear this? 100% incorrect. Anyways, the firs

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread Thorsten Heck
Hi! > Any other idea(s) Well, since you were on vacation and don't know if something happend to it, I'd check the dish-setup and the lnb. Perhaps you have an other (analogous) receiver at hand to test the reception. Since I have seen our dish (1/2 year old) getting tilted in a storm, I would n

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
Hello Luca, >> after my vacation I no longer have any reception. > Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, > leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back > on (usually capacitors are to blame). thanks for the hint. The system was running

Re: [vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Peer Oliver Schmidt ha escrit: > Hello, > > after my vacation I no longer have any reception. [...] Just a wild guess, but if you usually leave your vdr pc switched on, leaving it off for a while could make it not work right when turned back on (usually capacitors are to blame). Maybe a

[vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

2007-07-05 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
Hello, after my vacation I no longer have any reception. 3x DVB-S Budget cards vdr (1.4.7/1.4.5) - The Video Disk Recorder xineliboutput (1.0.0rc2) - X11/xine-lib output plugin vompserver (0.2.6) - VDR on MVP plugin by Chris Tallon femon (1.1.1) - DVB Signal Information Monitor (OSD) streamdev-se