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<blockquote data-quote="mangoletse" data-source="post: 573126" data-attributes="member: 310551">Hi, this is my first post so please accept my apologies for the general numptyness and if the answer was posted already - I searched the forum but couldn't find anything relevant!The big question here, before reading on: As I bought it from an associate, is the second hand freesat viewing card likely to be at fault?My situation is thus - we moved into our house a year ago and there is a sky minidish installed and an LNB + phone socket by the TV etc. so a friend at work gave me his old Pace digibox to get the free channels on - but it didn't work straightaway so I tried BT Vision (which i didn't like and soon gave up on)So just recently I bought an unwanted Sky freesat card off an associate for a tenner, tonight upon setting everything up again things went from having TV guide but 'no satellite signal' - but with values in the bottom two entries in the 'Signal Test' option in Services (not sure what they were) - but no signal strength is reported anyway - to (following a power down and reseating of the 'f type connector') no TV guide and zeros in those bottom two fields on the signal strength screen.Googling suggests a possible digibox fault and / or LNB problem (not sure what LNB is but presume the 'aerial lead' co-ax cable - which looks fine at the box end anyway).Thanks for reading and any advice, much appreciated!<img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="mangoletse, post: 573126, member: 310551"] Hi, this is my first post so please accept my apologies for the general numptyness and if the answer was posted already - I searched the forum but couldn't find anything relevant! The big question here, before reading on: As I bought it from an associate, is the second hand freesat viewing card likely to be at fault? My situation is thus - we moved into our house a year ago and there is a sky minidish installed and an LNB + phone socket by the TV etc. so a friend at work gave me his old Pace digibox to get the free channels on - but it didn't work straightaway so I tried BT Vision (which i didn't like and soon gave up on) So just recently I bought an unwanted Sky freesat card off an associate for a tenner, tonight upon setting everything up again things went from having TV guide but 'no satellite signal' - but with values in the bottom two entries in the 'Signal Test' option in Services (not sure what they were) - but no signal strength is reported anyway - to (following a power down and reseating of the 'f type connector') no TV guide and zeros in those bottom two fields on the signal strength screen. Googling suggests a possible digibox fault and / or LNB problem (not sure what LNB is but presume the 'aerial lead' co-ax cable - which looks fine at the box end anyway). Thanks for reading and any advice, much appreciated!:) [/QUOTE]

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