Sky+ box switching to standby

[reddwarfcrew]

from what i can see its the Pace v2 (3100)

[puretoon]

Ours has recently started to do the very same thing! and its damn annoying. So it's as I thought, a 'corrupt' update! Might have a look at the settings-or ring Sky and ask them.

[reddwarfcrew]

strangely mine seems to have now gone back to normal!

[xblade]

Hi Folks
Mine has also started going onto standby this week

I set Standby settings to 'off', so to try to stop this happening, but this makes no difference
Does anyone know when Sky are going to sort this?

Thanks
Simon

[Undecided Adrian]

I turned off the auto shutdown setting on the Sky+ and HD box as theu had a nasty habit of blue screening when you woke them up from standby and then you had to unplug them to get them working again. (as they don't have power switches on them)

I suppose that this is the EU leaning on Sky to make their products "greener" but if the thing doesn't work we'll all just turn the feature off just to save the greif.

[GRM]

Same thing happening to our Sky+ box. Turned off auto standby last night but haven't noticed if it has had any effect yet.

[Proppinupthebar]

I seem to remember that the last time this happened that once it started the boxes kept doing it every three hours, unless the box was rebooted.

[big bob]

I have a Pace PVR3 box and the message saying the box was about to go into standby started last Monday.

I switched off the Auto standby on Thursday and have not had a problem since.

[makaroo]

I am still experiencing this problem. After every two hours, the box goes into standby-mode. I then have to press the Sky button several times to switch it on again. Sometimes, the pictures freezes and remain freezes, the standby button doesnt work at this point. I then have to unplug it and plug it in again and press the Sky button several times. to get back on. Its has become such a pain I want to throw the box away. I have never experience any other problems with the box before. This has started over the last 2 months or so.

Are there any solutions except for buying another box and if so will I still be getting the same problem. I have a Pace TDS470N box.

[Smithy99]

Do you get a warning before it goes into standby, a message on screen asking you to press backup?

If not then you may have a failing hard drive, mine did similar things until I replaced it.