freeview box gone funny

[anomalyaos]

last night we had 2 mini powercut and after our freeview bow was saying we had no services we have tried rescanning but with no luck...any ideas?

 

[wmrcomputers]

There's a technical term for when this happens. It's Buggered!

On a serious note, instead of just re-tuning try going for a total reset / first time installation if you have the option to do so.

Let us know how you get on

 

[Jonah]

Virgin Media's response to box problems is to completely pull the plug out of the wall socket for at least a minute before putting it back in and switching on. Maybe this will work with the Freeview box?

 

[Em L]

This happened to me a couple of times, press and hold the power button for a few seconds and that resets it, takes a good few minutes to scan etc but seemed to do the trick for me.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Sound advice from Em K there - I forgot that if it doesn't have a first time installation option in the menu's then this is commonly the method to hard reset the box.
+1 for your knowledge

 

[highguyuk]

My slightly older Freeview Box with HD had a paddy the other day at Part 1 of the Re-Tune. Several attempts at retuning and Google searches to revive it etc failed.

So I switched it off.
Waited.
Switched it back on.
Re-tuned.
Fixed.

 

[anomalyaos]

we have tried all that but its still saying no services and no signal

 

[wmrcomputers]

Try it on a friends aerial before you chuck it away - just to be sure.

 

[basil]

Try it on a friends aerial before you chuck it away - just to be sure.

sound advice, these digi-boxes are disposables.......