Sky Digibox won't turn back on

Hi
Ive got the same problem, only i tried the above and it hasnt worked, any suggestions please ?
 
Rach

Hi Mark ,
New fan lol just got the new sky+ box pretty good 2 might i say , was just wondering do u no what the usb is for front and back of it m8 ?
John.
 

Hi,
My sky + box will not turn on i've tried all the above tips but to no avail. Any suggestions or am i looking at a huge sky service call out bill?????????????
Many thanks jenni x

Hello mate, I just Googled this problem and your last point worked perfectly. Thank you very much. It did wipe my saved programmes, but I was never going to watch Brokeback Mountain anyway.

Hi mark thanx for the info on the usb, lmao on charging the ipod such a big company sky is and thats all it can do, im sure someone will come up with something 2 get them going like all usbs. lol it works my usb led light 2.
Cheers again, John

Hi Mark
Got my father in-law up and running with a grundig sky box and a sky( free to air) card,hes been using it for about 8 months .
Yesterday nothing but a blue screen where sat channels used to be,No light on the front of the de-coder(red standby or green) ,but through the cooling vents I can see a green LED on the circut board inside ,so its getting power.
Have tried two remotes but wont turn on ,I presume its done in but If there was some trick or ke combination I could try Id be grateful.
Father in-law is lost without his chanel 169 so any help would be well recieved
Peter

Hey Mark
I have an ordinary  Pace 2500 box and did as you described above and updated software but still only a red standby light staring back at me.
What can i try now?
Thanks
 

Hey Mark - re your system reset comment above - will that wipe the recordings? thanks.

Hi Mark,
My sky HD Box just wont turn on at all, I came down in the morning and there are no lights on or anything and the screens saying no signal? I've tried turning it off and checking the plug fuse, but nothing at all, also another power cable too.
Any idea?
Thanks David.

hey mark ,,
thank you soo much for telling me how to fix my sky !!
my dad wud have fliped if he thought i broke it :L:L
thx

does box need to be connected to phone line for this to work???
thanks kelly

Hi
My Sky+ box wouldn't switch on today and before chucking it out of the window in annoyance, I tried your tips above re holding the left and right buttons and pressing standby.
It worked a treat.

Thanks very much
Rich

Hi there,

When I switched my box on this morning it wouldn't let me change channels. I switched it off at the mains and removed the card for 30 seconds as I usually do but instead of it being OK, now when I try and switch it back on all the lights on the front flash on and off quickly.

Can Anyone help?

Thank you

Craig

Hello,
one morning my sony sky digibox had no lights on! do you think it has given up the ghost? I would appreciate any help.
Avril.

hi i googled why wont my sky box turn on and got on to this site and i would like to thank you for the advice the first one never worked for me but the second one did,so thank you very much for the advice as you saved me buying another box as sky told me the the hard drive was no good and i would have to buy a new box so thank you again. brenda

Hi...Love the site and your advice...I actually fixed my box using your tech know how about 6 months ago when I suffered from the old 'red light and buzzing-will not turn on'  syndrome, for the first time.

Now its happened again...luckily I had bookmarked the site....

Thing is Im my wits end because after repeating the same actions (several thousand times),  I cant seem to get the green circle of lights to appear. Am at the point of chucking it off the balcony.

Ive got a white sky+  thomson box, which is quite old and its using an old free to air card (with a yellow house outline on it?!)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!! Ben

Hi Mark,

Yes Ive tried it all. I dont get it. Last time I pressed the direction buttons whilst plugging the machine in and the green lights came on, then I pressed select and it reset and worked a treat. Now its just does nothing....

I was wondering the same thing? I've tried the updating but I'm not sure if its wokring or not

Switch  off the power supply to your box for 2 minutes,then switch it back on and wait 2 minutes before pressing the SKY on button on your remote.Sometimes certain weather conditions and static can cause SKY boxes to freeze. 

thank you very much

just to say i had a sky box with just a red light on the front
then i tried your update FANTASTIC IT WORKED
what a great tip

Mark. My dad set the sky box not to record programmes as you watch them cos his mate at sky said its like smoking for the sky box. Shortens its life. I found a way to get round this if I remember by pausing a programme at the start for a few seconds then watching it. Anyway, the sky+ box coughed, spluttered and then went into standby mid viewing after I had done this and would not turn back on . I looked up your website to try and fix it. Read most of the posts. Went to try it once more and suddenly it worked, no need for complicated reboots. It all seems fine but earlier this evening I cleared out the planner and am 100% sure I left it on 29% free space. Since turning it back on the planner now recons it has 42% free space but nothing has been deleted. Have I knackered the hard drive? Is there any way to check? I've turned it on and off since but it is still sure it has 42%. I dont want to leave it and then something bad happen.

As for the usb port. Sky could make a fortune selling 'special' branded sky+ usb sticks that you can copy programmes you have recorded on your box onto. Then plug it into another box or usb port and watch it. You could take the football to your mates house or lend granny last nights corrie. It would be amazing. It would be like a more technical version of the original 'copy' function thus making blank tapes even more obselete.

Thom

 What a wsate of Hard earned Cash