Sky Amstrad DRX890 HD Box

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First, switch off your Sky Box and all peripheral devices at the mains and wait until the power light on your digital box has gone out before moving on to the next step. Nokia, ready for 1D. Picture quality & reception was far better on this than the previous analogue receivers I had used Thank you so much. First generation.... that probably explains why i have so many niggly faults with it since the last major software update about 18 months ago! Very quiet, and I found that the SD picture sharpened slightly by setting the output on the box to automatic and let the tv do the work. To reduce recording problems due to having too many deleted items it is a good idea to regularly go into the deleted items folder and delete the contents. Do this often otherwise you will be sat there for ages deleting the contents as each deletion is a slow and tedious process.

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Oct 1990: Not via a receiver, but via the communal aerial system on the housing estate I lived at, I started to receive BSB Galaxy & the BSB Sports Channel for free! Was quite pleased that I had opted for Sky over BSB, as I now had Sky and part of the BSB service....although about 1 month later Sky & BSB merged & the channels were eventually dropped from the communal aerial system If the cables are all good, try the following to troubleshoot the problem: Rest Transponder in Off Mode Your box can fail to receive a signal for a variety of reasons. Working from the dish to the box the failure reasons include bad weather, dish movement, obstruction such as tree in full-bloom or man-made structure between your dish and the satellites, faulty LNB, water ingress where the cable connects to the LNB, damaged cable, moisture on the F-connector at the box end, frayed wires or bent centre wire at box end, software failure or box hardware failure. PcW16 (Z80, 16MHz, single 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive, new machine not directly compatible with old PCWs)That version number means you have the first generation Amstrad box, with the 300gb hard drive. You have a drx780 The DRX89x box naming format is made up of DRX89 followed by a 0 for the 500GB hard drive model or a 5 for the 2TB hard drive. W means it has built-in Wi-Fi and L means it's the new 'Lite' version with the telephone ports removed. Here is a list of the failure codes that I have encountered so far, along with the common problem associated with the fault code and suggestions for resolving. Note: These codes may now be out-of-date due to recent software updates. You could try the Sky on-screen error message lookup tool. This section is currently unavailable as multiple programmes are being deleted

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Sky+ receiver. It was the original Sky+ box! Think it was made by Pace, but I could be wrong. I recall that the receiver was HUGE!I had an Amstrad installed at the weekend and am very happy with it up to now! I can't fault the picture, but I've no other box to compare it to The Sky viewing card slots lurks behind a small fascia flap on the right. The default Sky remote is also supplied. But with so much to dine on you're gonna need a bigger boat if you want to keep on top of all the sport, movies and other entertainment available, and in the increasingly online world you'll also need an internet connection. Enter the new Sky+HD 2TB box - with built in Wi-Fi. If you get a message that says, No Satellite Signal is Being Received – Error 25 or Error 29 you can try resetting your digital box. The Sky+HD box has firmware that boots the box and loads the operating system. The EPG, planner and recordings are stored on the hard drive. When the hard drive contains corrupted data the Sky box has no built-in recovery software to resolve the corruption like Microsoft Windows or Linux does so it just says that the box is in "diskless mode". The "corruption" that made your box enter diskless mode is not necessarily a hardware corruption but could be a software corruption that occurred during the automated system software update. Some of us have figured out that forcing a software update can sometimes resolve the corruption but in most cases it requires a system reset. A system reset completely wipes your hard drive and reinstalls the system software and allows the hard drive itself to mark any areas as bad. Of course you lose your planner and recordings in the process. You could take resolution a step further by removing your hard drive from the Sky box, inserting it into a caddy and connecting it to a computer running hard drive diagnostics and repair software. Or, you could extend your box's life by inserting a new hard drive and performing a system reset to format it and use it as your new storage device. The Sky software supports up to 2TB hard drives.

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For those of you with only the one satellite cable coming into your property i.e. communal satellite, you will need to enable 'single feed mode'. This is done as follows: Continue pressing the buttons and within 60 seconds the blue/green circle lights on the box will light up The Sky+ app is worth installing for several reasons as well as the avoidance of clashes. I myself use the app in conjuction with MySky reminders to add programs to my Sky boxes without disturbing what the family is watching on the TV right now. You can also delete programs and browse channels without bringing menus up on the TV. When all else fails most SKY support staff will direct you to perform a system reset. This process will perform a low-level format of your hard drive followed by a reload of the firmware. This WILL erase all your recorded programs and delete your scheduled programs.Amstrad expanded to the marketing of low cost amplifiers and tuners, imported from East Asia and badged with the Amstrad name for the UK market. Their first electrical product was the Amstrad 8000 amplifier. In terms of raw audio-visual performance, the Sky+ HD 2TB box doesn't disappoint (although there are the usual caveats). The best of Sky's HD channel output, which includes Sky Sports F1 HD, is recorded with mirror-perfect fidelity. Damage to the cables. Call an engineer if the cables are dislodged from the metal housing or the nozzle is bent or broken. The Keep option prevents you from accidentally deleting a recording that you want to keep or from stopping the automated housekeeping software from deleting programs that you want to keep. What it cannot do however is prevent Sky from deleting a program from your recordings because the program in question has an expiry date or because Sky has a legal obligation to remove it. Perhaps disappointingly, Dolby Digital 5.1 is still only available over a separate digital audio lead - the HDMI feed is slavishly chained to stereo.

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I'm in the process of restoring my Thomson HD recordings to the Amstrad and noticed that its got a 320GB WD hard drive (model: WD3200AVJS). I wonder if the extra 20GB is available for recordings or if its split 50/50 with anytime or if its not available for use at allWhich may then cause Sky to replace it with a DRX890 (complete with new software) as a reward for your continued custom. For serious failures where you cannot get to the menu system to perform a system reset then you can perform one via the facia buttons as follows: VARIANTS: DRX890 (Standard, 250 GB), DRX890W (Standard, 250 GB, Wi-Fi and IO Link), DRX890WL (Standard, 250 GB, Wi-Fi, IO Link and Legacy Port removal). DRX895 (1 or 2 TB), DRX895W (1 or 2 TB, Wi-Fi and IO Link), DRX895WL (1 or 2 TB, Wi-Fi, IO Link and Legacy Port removal). Initially having a lot of trouble as the box would fail to boot once the hard drive was restored. This was due to the fact that the Amstrad uses a small Endian CPU and the Thomson and other HD boxes (to my knowledge) all use big Endian. So if anyone else is going to perform a migration you will need to use the convert function built into copy+. Whatever channel you’ve recorded from, your movies, kids’ shows, documentaries, entertainment and lifestyle programmes will be grouped together, along with sports, news and music programmes