Sky+ 2nd input intermittent loses signal

[jasonmark38]

The sky hd boxes arent 320gb anymore jason, they've been 500gb since around the start of this year. I'm surprised noone has pointed this out, but is the original box a thomson? If so it's got faulty capacitors on its PSU which when replaced will fix your problem.

Actually Simon, Sky do still supply Sky HD boxes with 320GB drives, but they call them Sky+ boxes. They are just Sky HD boxes without the HD sub for which they charge you £79 (£49 for the box, £30 for installation). You will still be able to receive the following HD channels though without the HD sub: BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, Five HD, ITV1 HD, Luxe TV HD. This would save £41 compared with a Sky HD box with 12 months of HD subs.

[Dazeon]

I have been having the same problem for around a month now.

We have three boxes, one Sky+HD (newer 500GB version) and two Sky+ on multiroom.

The Sky+HD box remains largely unaffected, apart from slowing to a crawl with the new Anytime+ update.

However, both Sky+ boxes have done what the OP described.

I get a message about no satellite signal being received, and to wait for 5 minutes.
After waiting forever I switched the inputs and managed to get the TV back, when I checked in settings > signal, it listed input 2 as not locked. I thought I had damaged the cable so I trimmed them up and tried again, no change.

I then took the drastic step of reformatting the box via the installer menu and even that did not work. Then a few days later after several failed recordings, it went back to normal?

As of yesterday the second Sky+ box has done exactly the same, although this time I am going to leave it well alone and see what happens.