All channels gone - signal (I think) but no lock - advice appreciated.

[mrspaces]

I hope somebody could help me please.

Lost all my freeview via my USB dongle.

Plugged in a regular freeview box and signal is absolutely fine.

Have run the BDA Channel Scanner for UK and it does find the correct frequencies but cannot get a lock.

Have even done a drastic thing and installed the Blaze Player but that also cant find the channels.

Done the usual removing drivers in Device Manager Sound And Vision for the DVB-T device and reinstalled but still no luck.

All this is very strange - especially the fact that BDA Scanner sees the channels but just cant get a lock on them.

I have absolutely no idea what is going wrong at the moment and have never struggled as much as this before. Normally if anything goes wrong a fresh install of the wonderful GB-PVR will sort things out but things seem alot more complicated this time.

If any brainboxes out there have any other ideas then I would so much appreciate hearing them as I have been trying tofix this for about 5 hours now and am not even getting close.

Cheers all!
mrspaces.

[Graham]

Are you us a new .iNI file of the new frequences since swichover? Or scaning "All Regions"?

At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, it sounds like a reception thing. Check all the plugs and sockets on the ariel coax, try scanning without splitters ... and so on.

[mrspaces]

Cheers Graham (as always).
I had used the new Winter Hill frequencies from the Excel spreadsheet made by some kind person on here - I think that may have been you!

Anyway, WOW - what a nightmare - now solved but not fixed.

Get ready for this... it was a motherboard problem.

I have a cheapo Zap E3C USB dongle that for some reason will not work on the rear USB ports - only on the front one which is powered directly from the mobo.
Got a internal card reader and fitted it the other day and connected it to the 2nd USB port on the mobo... it seems that is the problem.

If I connect my front USB ports to the mobo then the dongle and everything will run. But if I then attach the card reader to the other USB port/pins on the mobo then the dongle ceases to work.

Its some kind of annoying conflict that I have no idea to solve - or even if it can be solved.

Hope this info will be of use to someone else and thanks again Graham!

regards.
mrspaces

[Graham]

A powered hub?

http://www.dabs.com/products/startech-co...ire%20Hubs

[mrspaces]

Ta Graham, but trying not to use a powered hub as far too many electricals on the go already.
The internal card reader connects via pins so need to be used on the motherboard.
Got my old trusty regular USB card reader plugged back in now and GB-PVR is working great again.
Thanks again for your help Graham and all the best for 2010.
mrspaces