fortec ultra lifetime problem
I had a fortec ultra lifetime that did exactly what yours is doing now, except first it would not send diseqc commands to the motor or switch. I did factory resets and reboots until i was blue in the face. I contacted fortec and they told me to install their latest version of firmware that was available on their website for free with the installer program to run on windows xp pc. I downloaded the software and used a usb to serial cable adaptor and downloaded new firmware version 6 or 6.?. something. This did repair the diseqc problem in that it would turn the motor and control the switch. I thought all was good. WRONG!
I deleted all tp's but one for each bird that I knew was active. I scanned g10r first, then telstar 5 or IA-5, amc-4, g3C. after the power scans were finished I organized my channels by satellite location and of course used usals. all was good for a moment.
When I switched to a channel on a different satellite the motor started moving east and west. I re-booted and all sat positions in the setup menus were lost and the menus read crazy stuff like "enregistar" and scrambled up words in menu fields that did not belong. I did a re-boot(almost literally-LOL)
and then channels were missing. I even re-flashed it again with fortec software and it said it was a successful transfer. It still did the same stuff so I gave up on it. I gave the box to my cousin who uses it for g10r with a fixed dish and single lnb. No problems there.
I was very unhappy with this box, I think I bought a lemon. I now have a pansat 2500A and have had very little problems so far.
Once for some reason my sg-2100 motor was drifting west a degree or so every time I would move the dish very far from one sat to another and I would have to tell the receiver to "go to reference" and then go outside and use the manual east/west button to center it back on "0" degrees. After that I would use a paperclip and reset the diseqc motor then re-boot the receiver.
after that this has not happened again. Hope this helps.