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steven
18-10-2007, 12:57 AM
Can anyone help, My dad was given a sky box by a friend to use as freeview, his lodger left his satellite dish when he left, and he hooked up to this. The problem is that on the menu, there is no channel 4, the menu has all the other channels, but for some reason , there is no channel 4. Can anyone help, can he add this to the menu, or what ? please can you help

charmac

dx100-uk
18-10-2007, 02:00 AM
its normally ch.5. that is missing
you need to ensure the card IS a registered freeview card
if not active it by phone
then do a rescan.

dx100uk

maoo
25-10-2007, 08:01 PM
You probly got no card in the box lol, just get any skycard (even blocked cards work for freesat, maybe your dad has an old card or knows someone with one etc) Sky sell them at ?25, e-bay at roughly ?15ish mark, stick it in ya box and turn it off from the mains then back on again it will have the missing freeview channels.

If your box is very old you might want to do a software update to get the newer tv guide menu etc, just unplug the mains from the back of the skybox, hold down the backup button on the front of the box (top of box on the new ones) and plug in mains while holding button down, keep hold of button untill you see all the lights on the front of the box light up, leave the box alone untill only the standby light is on again and power up (p.s make sure the sat feed is connected during the above otherwise you just wasted your time lol).