
Your Meter has lost memory plans, TV Channel Plan
and Transponder SAT?
The total or partial cancellation, of the plans of memory and SAT & TV, can occur
randomly and rarely for a wrong turning off the power. Basically if you normally take
and hold the RED button "Home" for more than two seconds (eg 6 or 7 seconds) in
some rare cases, it may conflict with the "reset"; while the tool (which is shutting
down) is still saving the data in memory.
Correct procedure for instruments:
·Press and hold the red button , the instrument will emit a first beep
immediately and a second BEEP after about 2 seconds, then release
immediately the red button (even if the display is still active and shows the
batteries instructions).
CAUTION:
·Do not keep pressed the red button after the second BEEP, to avoid starting the
HW reset function (forced turn-off see poit 4). Basically, every time you turn off the
instrument, it needs about ten seconds to save the data in memory before turn-off. If
accidentaly you interrupt this storing process, activating the HW Reset function the
data in memory coul be corrupted. In any case you can restore the memory plans
yourself with a PC.
IMPORTANT: In SINGLE DISPLAY COLOR models before to reload/update the
memory Plans and the SW, it is necessary to do a FORMAT HD (Figure 1) to fully
clean the memories of your instrument.
Figure 1: Menu selection "FORMAT HARD DISK"