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leerph
08-03-2006, 09:12 PM
Well, my ole trusty T-60 I've had for about 3 years just got hit by lightning I think. It had that funky electrical burn smell to it and it won't find satellite strength on ant 1 or 2 in. The good news is all my recorded shows are still there and can be accessed and watched so not all is lost. My first question is does anyone think this unit can be repaired? It appears to work fine except that it has 0% signal strenght on both sat 1 and 2 in.

At any rate, I pulled out an old backup unit I had that was xtremed. It comes up fine and goes past the almost there screen and comes up to the guided setup program where you have to pick your dish type and test signal strength. It goes through all this fine and then goes to the screen where it says checking sat dish setup based on your dish type. It counts up to 28% each time and then stops. All you can do is unplug it to reboot it but it goes to the same setup screen again. My old unit used to do this same thing but as long as you told it what kind of dish you had and let it hang at 28% and then rebooted it, it wouldn't ask you to go through that setup again. Any idea how I can get around this? Could it be a bad xtreme or a bad hard drive causing this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

ScanMan
08-03-2006, 09:41 PM
Try this (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32705&highlight=28%25) thread or this (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26297) one; a search for "28%" will reveal numerous threads...

captain_video
08-03-2006, 10:06 PM
It sounds like your tuners got fried. The 28% issue is well known and documented as ScanMan pointed out. Just disconnect the sat inputs and let it time out. Then, select the option to fix it later and it will try to reacquire the sat signal anyway. Reconnect the sat inputs and it will acquire the signal normally.