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103G stops boot process

Well I can repeat this behaviour in two 1.8 Intel boxes - without the 103G inserted the boxes boot fine. With the card in place, which was working fine in one of the boxes, the boxes do not boot at all. Fan comes on, drive lights active as they are probed for disks, but then no beeps at all and no progress on boot, fan keeps blowing at high speed when normally it would throttle back until temp issues require more ventilation, and the box can only be shut down with holding the on/off switch in for several seconds or unplugging the power cord.

I have tried different slots on both machines, and inserting a different type of pci card is not a problem, even one which requires its own power supply, so the power supply itself seems to be putting out lots of juice.

Normally no beeps means power supply or system board problem. Perhaps inserting the card creates a short. Anyone seen this issue before?
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Follow-up

As a follow up on this item, the card is now working and I cannot put it down to anything specific I have done.

1. I contacted the retailer and Digiwave for support regarding warranty and did not hear from either of them. As far as I am concerned 'warranty' on this product through this retailer/wholesaler means nothing.

2. Realizing I was stuck with the card, I found an accommodation with it by ensuring that when the computer was shut down it went into hibernation and was not fully shut off. Then the card would not stop the computer on rebooting. Total shut down would mean the card would need the fridge treatment.

3. From this point the major glitch was that on computer restart from hibernation ProgDVB could not tune channels until the computer had been rebooted. On reboot it could tune channels again. This was consistent.

4. After many days of this repeated treatment I have discovered that I can once again shut the computer down fully, unplug it, leave it overnight to get cold and it will boot fine in the morning. I am at a loss to find a reason for this return to its behaviour straight out of the box.

Now I am getting HD channels and AC-3 no problem at all, and diseqc switches are handled fine. I could almost say it has become a very good card. Just one more problem which I think deserves its own thread - screen resolution.
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After 6 months or so of intermittent use, watching HD from time to time no problem, yesterday the system returned to the above odd behaviour. Freezing the cards for a while did not work. Pulling the CMOS battery (Anole recommendation above) at first did not work, but pulling the battery and leaving the box open overnight did work. Now it is booting fine again.

I thought physics was supposed to be reasonably predictable?
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I'll throw in my 2 cents worth. The symptoms sound like a bad electrolytic capacitor, either at the power input of the board or in the on-board power supply if it has one. If these capacitors are bad, they can cause all kinds of problems. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. And if the power supplies in your computers put out slightly different voltages, the symptoms will be different or non-existent. They don't have to be bulging to be bad - that was big in the 90s when there was a bad batch out of the far east. The best way to check an electrolytic capacitor is with an ESR meter. Maybe you can borrow one from a friend or technician. Good luck.
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Larry1
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Hermitman said:
sound like a bad electrolytic capacitor
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It may be even a bad capacitor on your motherboard and the extra load is causing the problem. I just got through replacing all the capacitors on my nephews motherboard because it was only intermittently powering up.

One more thing to check. Make sure that the card is fully seated in the connector. Lots of times cards will be pushed in and the bracket on the card (the bracket where you put the bolt in to hold it in place) will prevent it from fully seating in the connector. If you can remove the metal bracket and push it in the socket to test for this. Be carefull as you will have to put something (plastic?) to insulate the card from shorting to the cards in the slots beside them.
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Thanks guys, comments appreciated. The board is an IBM product and should be good, perhaps a capacitor on the 103G board itself? One day I will find out since I will be upgrading the box to a faster processor/mb etc - the 1.8 barely manages the HD I am using it for and does not leave wiggle room for luxuries like recording. If I plug the card into a new faster computer box (it has stopped this 1.8 and a 400MHz as well) and it stops that one too then it is the card for sure.

It's a pity, if the box boots then the functionality of the 103G really offers quite a lot. When it works I really like it despite a few shortcomings.
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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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naptime said:
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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Oh, you mean "soon"? :biggrin
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jsmit86 said:
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.
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it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner
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it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner
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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
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reubenray said:
I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
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Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
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Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
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Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.
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Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.
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If I understand your question, O'Neill had the Ancient's knowledge in the "Lost City" two-part episode. That was when Anubis attacked Earth and there was a big battle over Antarctica.
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
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Yup, I agree, I'd rather be 2 or 3 till the last few weeks.
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