Could be anything... only one way to tell...

Sounds vaguely like a problem I was seeing a few weeks ago. What was happening was that there was some sort of problem with certain OTA channels (so it seemed to be a regional/market kind of thing), such that when the overnight update occurred (3 a.m. by default), the receiver would go nuts.

The sypmtom would be that you'd turn on the TV and receiver, and you'd be stuck at the 'acquiring satellite' screen. It would never progress past step 3 of 5 - it'd just switch to a different transponder/satellite and start back at step 1. (Is that what the error 015 message says? I don't remember...) I saw this on both a Vip 622 and a 722.

The only way to clear it up was to get rid of the offending OTA channel from the receiver's memory; problem was, you couldn't get to the "Scan locals" screen to individually delete local channels. You had to do a "restore system defaults" or "factory reset" (I forget exactly what it's called...it's somewhere in the System Setup section of the menus). That erases the scanned OTA channels from the receiver and things suddenly start working again. (BTW, the "restore defaults" doesn't wipe out a lot of other stuff - your favorites lists remain, although their names go back to "List 1", etc.; timers stay intact, etc.)

Once things were working, if you didn't re-scan for OTA channels, the problem didn't come back. But if you re-scanned your locals, things would only work okay until the next night's update would cause the problem again.

It was speculated that only a small number of local OTA channels were causing this, and it had something to do with the program guide update process getting fouled up. I never did pin down which channel was causing it for me; this problem was supposed to be fixed in the 610 software release, and as far as I can tell, it was.

SO....I dunno if this describes what you saw. It doesn't sound like you wound up doing a "restore defaults". But if you have OTA channels, it sounds like you might've seen something similar to what I saw.

As I always say, if the problem doesn't recur, well...it's not a problem.

-WIrving

Maybe LNB drift?

Go back to the diag screen. Once it finishes the tests does it say anything? Check the details screen.

JimP said:

WIrving,
I don't have OTA wired through the 722. They're on a Tivo S3 sitting under the 722. If it happens again, how can you get to the program guide to see the OTA channels?

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Since you don't do OTA via the 722, the problem you saw was definitely not the one I'm talking about. In any case, with the problem I had, you couldn't get to the program guide. You could hit 'menu', then some of the options would be available, some grayed out. "Restore factory defaults" was available somewhere under "System Setup", I think. Once the factory defaults were in place, the 722 could then successfully acquire satellites again. It was weird...

Good luck,
WIrving