Yesterday I paused the news for a few minutes.  When playing it, at the 
end of the news, the HD box froze, then switched off with a loud click.

Then tonight I was recording two programmes at once while the box was in 
standby.  At the end of the two minute padding time again the box 
switched off with a loud click.  When recovered, the first recording was 
marked "Failed: technical fault - 12" and the second "Clashed".  I 
checked the signal levels and quality, all OK except that the second 
input was slow to display the result.  I don't know if the delay was 
significant.
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Peter Pratten
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:42:31 +0100, Peter Pratten
 wrote:

>Yesterday I paused the news for a few minutes.  When playing it, at the 
>end of the news, the HD box froze, then switched off with a loud click.
>
>Then tonight I was recording two programmes at once while the box was in 
>standby.  At the end of the two minute padding time again the box 
>switched off with a loud click.  When recovered, the first recording was 
>marked "Failed: technical fault - 12" and the second "Clashed".  I 
>checked the signal levels and quality, all OK except that the second 
>input was slow to display the result.  I don't know if the delay was 
>significant.
>-- 
>Peter Pratten
>Please reply in group only

Mine did this a few times before giving up and dying completely when
the power unit went. I had to buy a new one. However this new one has
done the freeze and crash at the end of a programme thing once in the
4 weeks I've had it, so I'm wondering if this is a software bug and
the power unit failing was unconnected. It always seems to be when I'm
recording something and watching a HD channel or recording 2 things,
one of which is HD.

I also find that if you forward through ads at 30x speed after about 3
mins when you want to start watching again and press play it suddenly
jumps about 5 mins, but if you press rewind quickly enough it goes
right back and the extra mins just go. Quite a few bugs to iron out it
seems.  

Colin.

Peter Pratten wrote:
> Yesterday I paused the news for a few minutes.  When playing it, at the 
> end of the news, the HD box froze, then switched off with a loud click.
> 
> Then tonight I was recording two programmes at once while the box was in 
> standby.  At the end of the two minute padding time again the box 
> switched off with a loud click.  When recovered, the first recording was 
> marked "Failed: technical fault - 12" and the second "Clashed".  I 
> checked the signal levels and quality, all OK except that the second 
> input was slow to display the result.  I don't know if the delay was 
> significant.

Open the box up, and check for bulging capacitors on the PSU card.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=727185

http://www.satcure.com/reviews/review113.htm#01

http://blog.teegzworld.com/2008/02/sky-hd-power-supply-unit-replacement.html