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Does anyone have any old blue yellow house sky cards?
 

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You are the second chap to ask in the last week. Whats going on?
 

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If someone can provide a good reason as to why these are suddenly in demand I'll post a link to one that's for sale...
 

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If someone can provide a good reason as to why these are suddenly in demand I'll post a link to one that's for sale...


....... depending upon the reason, you could buy it yourself!
 

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Ive got 2 of the yellow house, a couple of the light blue ones and 3 or 4 of the whiteish ones - and the spare sky box which is used for fta channels in the bedroom has packed up so I cant test any of them :-rofl2

Suspected drive failure as the box half boots every 5 minutes then goes off again - the hdd was noisy and now isnt making any noise at all....
 

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Got two here, but think they came out of single tuner boxes.
 

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Suspected drive failure as the box half boots every 5 minutes then goes off again - the hdd was noisy and now isnt making any noise at all....
Nick a 320GB IDE drive from an old PC - you must be able to get hold of those from "somewhere"!
 

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Nick a 320GB IDE drive from an old PC - you must be able to get hold of those from "somewhere"!
Plenty of old drives from scrapped Friends & family pc's in storage in boxes in the garage. Lets see if the damn thing is any easier to take apart than the one I did 6 months ago to change the drive!
 

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Plenty of old drives from scrapped Friends & family pc's in storage in boxes in the garage. Lets see if the damn thing is any easier to take apart than the one I did 6 months ago to change the drive!
The DRX890 is particularly 'interesting' as a lesson on hard drive removal/replacement.
 

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The very old SKY boxes are far easier to take apart than the later SKY+ HD boxes - just a few screws, like a PC.

"Been there, done that"
 

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The DRX890 is particularly 'interesting' as a lesson on hard drive removal/replacement.
Absolutely - A Rubic's cube/Hampton Court maze "challenge" - "been there, done that" as well (several times!) :(
 
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Swapped the drive for one out of the junk box. Its booting now, but is operating in diskless mode so that drive might be toast. I have a suspicion it may have been a faulty one taken out of one of the NAS boxes. I'll have another look at it tomorrow & see if I can fix it any better. Or I may have forgotten to reconnect one of the cables :D
 

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Swapped the drive for one out of the junk box. Its booting now, but is operating in diskless mode so that drive might be toast. I have a suspicion it may have been a faulty one taken out of one of the NAS boxes. I'll have another look at it tomorrow & see if I can fix it any better. Or I may have forgotten to reconnect one of the cables :D
"Easy, quick" swap then - so try another one.
 

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Yes I have 4 of them.

Why do you ask ?
 

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I've a few and cards for other providers, what can you do with them?
 

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Depending what box they were in when they were swapped to a white card, it appears some still allow certain Sky boxes to record & play FTA channels.

I don't believe this is a recent finding, so I'm still baffled as to why there is a sudden demand for them.
 

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