[mythtv-users] PVR-250 used to work, now stops tuning

[Michael T. Dean]

Josh Burks wrote:

>On 9/18/05, Jeff Piazza <jeff at jeffpiazza.org> wrote:
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>>I rebooted the machine and now just get undifferentiated static on all
>>channels.  Now that I'm home, I've tried ptune and still can't get a
>>signal.
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>>Has anyone known a PVR-250 to fail in this way after working for 6
>>months?  Is this a known failure mode?
>>
>My PVR-250 did nearly the same thing only after working for over a
>year. I put it in a Windows box to double check it and it wouldn't
>work there either. I got in touch with Hauppauge and they RMA'd it.
>
>I still don't know what caused it to die. No power failures, lockups,
>etc - it just quit tuning.
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Jeff and Josh, this sounds like and improperly grounded antenna/cable 
connection.  If so, you'll find that this keeps happening.

Mike