Look for a short on the secondary of PS. Had a similar problem on mie GI, disconnected it and hauled it to the shop where it worked OK, found a shorted KU LNB, if you have removed all external connections short may be internal Al G Al's TV-Electronics Pembroke Ont. Canada armando guerra wrote: > > I don't know if I am allowed to post this kind of question here so if I > am not,I apologize. > My neighbor has the above sat.receiver that when he powers it up,pix is > there for about 5 seconds and then it powers dn.It won't power back up > unless you unplug it from the ac. > I don't know much about sat.receivers but i went over there anyway to > see what its doing. > I thought that maybe a short in the LNB or the lines coming in may be > causing the problem but I disconnected all lines and it still shuts > dn.When you plug it in,there are about 4 symbols that show up on the > display panel.One looks like a clock or a timer symbol.I thought maybe > it was locked up or in a timer mode but don't know.If there is someone > here that is familiar with this unit and may have some suggestions,can > you please advise.Thank you very much. > Mando > Birdie's TV & Electronics > Casa Grande, AZ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/