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samtasm
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Hi, I'm just new to the forum and was wondering if anybody out there had any advice or something I could try to resurrect my PACE (4000 model I think) digibox. Quick background story: Used to have Jerrold with "Baby J" but died after 6 months, had to get it chipped, then box only worked for 6 hours at a time before needing reset (had to be powered off and on and left for 20 minutes for channels to come back) altho 3 or 4 friends with same thing were OK? It was as if I was getting mini-zapped every 6 hours? Decided to unplug everything and get a PACE box with Funcard 4, altho not subscribed to digital was told it would work. Worked great for couple of months then seemed to get zapped twice a week which I couldn't handle anymore. Friend then done me an "OPOS" card which would auto-update and this worked great for about 4 months until now. Couple of days ago, switched on TV and it had nthell "service in progress" screen displayed? Looked at the PACE box and it had "PAt" displayed on the panel, whole system totally unresponsive? Unplugged everything, left for a while, still the same. Friend suggested opening box and removing red jumper, plugging in just the power and leaving for an hour then put jumper back, cable feed in and OPOS in and power back on. Did this and the screen was just jet black with the word "Tune" on the PACE display. Watched it for half an hour but nothing changed? Went to bed and came back in the morning to check and screen was back to the "service" page (displays triangle with the exclamation mark inside) and "PAt" on the PACE display. Again, friends with same setup are OK so I think card is still fine, must be the box? I think nthell have been out to get me for a while (6 hour reset on chipped Jerrold when closeby friends are fine?) and somehow they have managed to fry my box? Stuck old Jerrold back in the mean time and it works fine altho picture quality seems to have degraded and screen flickers a bit and back to my 6 hour timer! I read somewhere recently that the "PAt" display on the panel means "Program Allocation Table" not sure though. I also tried using the up and down buttons and the service button etc. to try and get into engineer menu I heard about to see if there was some kind of reset I could perform but that doesn't work either. If anybody has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...