Discussion topic: 2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
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Message posted on 28 Apr 2023 12:11 PM
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2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
Usually happens overnight, but has frozen mid day as well. Unresponsive with red and green light on, only power reset works which may fix for a day or so.
Tried, turning off 2.4 and 5GHz wireless, making sure lots of recording space, tried all the standby modes (None/Active/Eco) and "reset settings" option from the engineer menu. The Sky Q box is hardwired to 1gb internet worked fine for 3 years.
Signal strength fluctuates between 70 and 80
Signal quality 90
LNB type Wideband
Software version Q210.000.06.03L (5k4107v)
Hardware Version 32B206
Feels pretty terminal at this point, unless anyone has an idea.
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Message posted on 28 Apr 2023 02:14 PM - last edited: 28 Apr 2023 02:14 PM
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Re: 2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
@callofduty wrote:
Feels pretty terminal at this point
Quite possibly, yes. Sky will almost certainly just swap-out the hardware by courier: make sure you remove the viewing card first.
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Message posted on 28 Apr 2023 05:44 PM
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Re: 2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
@TimmyBGood wrote:
@callofduty wrote:
Feels pretty terminal at this point
Quite possibly, yes. Sky will almost certainly just swap-out the hardware by courier: make sure you remove the viewing card first.
New box on the way by courier, exactly as you said. Hopefully, it resolves, even if it doesn't I can start looking at the environment outside the sky Q.
Message posted on 28 Apr 2023 06:36 PM
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Re: 2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
@callofduty wrote:
@TimmyBGood wrote:
@callofduty wrote:
Feels pretty terminal at this point
Quite possibly, yes. Sky will almost certainly just swap-out the hardware by courier: make sure you remove the viewing card first.
New box on the way by courier, exactly as you said. Hopefully, it resolves, even if it doesn't I can start looking at the environment outside the sky Q.
@callofduty AS @TimmyBGood sayscremember and remove your viewing card from the old box
I may be a Sky Superuser but I am still just a Sky customer
Sky Q 2 TB (Silver)Box, 2 Mini boxes since June 2016, all connected by wifi
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Message posted on 01 May 2023 01:53 AM - last edited: 01 May 2023 01:54 AM
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Re: 2 TB Sky Q Box Locking Up Daily
Box swapped. Seems resolved. It was actually 1TB box not 2TB. I did notice on the old box, calcuting by extrapolation, it only took about 500GB of recordings for it to register 100% full. On the replacement this seems to be up to 700GB not sure if this is relevant tbh.
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