Recent content by Ametrine

That's about the only thing that's changed here. They are building a new bar and grill in town and my husband thinks they may have affected our power when they ran power to it. I don't know for sure the exact timeline for when they did that and our trouble started. Frankly, we don't have to...

I was getting ready to tell you all that your suggestions worked, I put a little cooling fan blowing into the case and took the PlayStation off of the receiver. And..... It froze up and did the full reset... :wtf We're getting a new HDMI cable and trying that. If it doesn't help we're telling...

I'm sorry, my reply to Tampa8 was cut off like that. A friend in crisis called and I closed my browser, I didn't realize it posted the reply.... I think where I was going next was there isn't anything drawing as big of a load from that outlet like an air conditioner. Only the TV and a wireless...

Thanks for the information Tampa. Yes, this just started the first of March. First it was occasionally then more and more often til it was happening a couple times an hour, sometimes within a half hour of each event. I forgot to add that after I moved the plug after the receiver freezes it...

Hi Jim5506, thank you for your quick reply. I suppose I should have added that the receiver is sitting on the bottom shelf of an old, open wooden end table. The same place every Dish receiver has sat since we bought the house 13 years ago. We've had the HD receiver since 2011. There was a DVD...

Hi, I hope someone here can help, Dish sure isn't. For over a month now our receiver has been freezing (during live TV, recorded payback or paused makes no difference), after a minute or two the TV channel blasts static because the receiver has lost power like it had been unplugged and then...