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Pooka, thank you. I indeed had searched that forum and narrowed down possible culprits to bad caps and diodes before I posted there and in this forum as well. In my experience, this forum is just as helpful, if not more. A few years ago I posted the red light flashing issue of my last 9242 in...

waylew, your help was highly appreciated. The bulged caps were definitely a good place to start. They were on the main board below the power supply board, though, so I don't know what function they were supposed to do. I don't have an oscilloscope. Next, I think I am going to remove the power...

I got Panasonic 1200 uF capacitors from a local electronics store and replaced the two bulged capacitors below the power supply board. The receiver is still doing the same cycling/rebooting thing and won't boot up. No joy yet...

Yes, I tested it in my multimeter's diode test mode. I was wondering if it shorts out because the readings are close to each other in both directions. I also tested it in the resistance mode. It produced similar values (1.18 vs 1.19 k) in both directions. The diode was not removed from the...

Thank you, waylew. These two bulged caps are located right underneath the heat sink for the power rectifier diode, and probably got baked because the heat sink gets very hot. I tested the diode still connected in the circuit with my digital multimeter. The voltage drop readings are 396 and 564...

My first 9242 had rebooting issue and was replaced by Bell with this refurbished one 4 years ago. It had worked fine until 2 weeks ago. It won't boot up. The green light comes on and the fan spins up and then the light goes off. In 2 minutes it reboots again. I tried unplugging power and data...

The lights stopped blinking when I was thinking to put my foot on top of the receiver... primestar31, you were right! This time I connected the receiver to a sat feed. The lights stopped flashing and stayed on steady after it streamed for less than 6 hours (I didn't check earlier.) The receiver...

Thank you so much, primestar31! I have tried leaving the receiver plug in overnight with power to the internal HDD disconnected. I also tried plugging the HDD back in for 7 hours. In both cases sat feeds and TV2 out were disconnected. The lights never stopped flashing. And still blank screen...

I tried a long HDD diagnostic test to see if it would fix my 4 years old 9242 that had recently started rebooting itself over and over. It hung there. Now it boots to all lights flashing except for dual mode light and no picture. This is the test that caused the problem: HDD Long Diagnostics...