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MSS200 / PACE [Sat receiver (analogue)]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for MSS200 / PACE.

List of fault symptoms:
  • No RF output. Blue menu screen. Scart OK.
  • No audio.
  • Stuck in standby.
  • Streaks in picture.
  • Terrestrial pictures grainy.
  • No response from RC control handset.
  • Picture goes off after an hour.
  • Noisy and distorted sound.
  • Remains in vertical polarity. (MSS200 tip from PACE)
  • PSU trips. LEDs flash on and off quickly.
  • Only 17 volts from receiver to LNB irrespective of polarisation selection. Shows menu option for "LNB" 2 and other various irregular features.
  • Restore factory settings.
  • Blown fuse.
  • No decoder messages.
  • Whistling from PSU.
  • Decoder fails when warm.
  • "Card invalid" in display. (MSS200 tip from PACE)
  • Noise in audio. Poor audio.
  • Dead. PSU chirps.
  • No satellite pictures.
  • Menu background colour changes to black and white.
  • No tuning via RF modulator. Tuning by TV OK.
  • No messages; OSG float from left to right and top to bottom.
  • LNB short circuit message on display.
  • On-screen channel idents and clear menus drifting from right to left.
  • Poor audio, improves on higher subcarriers.
  • No RF output.
  • Poor sound on some channels, OK on others.
  • Chirping. Whistling. (MSS200 tip from PACE)
  • Venetian blind effect.
  • Hanover bar, no video-crypt.
  • Stuck in standby with zeros in display.
  • Large black sparklies on left 3/4 of picture.
  • Horizontal streaks across screen on all channels.
  • Rubbish in display. Locks up.
  • U1 S/C.
  • Picture drifts. Menu and channel idents OK. Picture from VCR scart OK.
  • Failure of D9.
  • Interference on RF output. Blue menu screen. Scart OK.
  • No colour. Picture rolls.
  • Slow to come out of standby; blank TV screen with "00000000" and "No Signal" message displayed.
  • Blue screen. "NO SIGNAL" message on all channels.
  • Vertical white lines on decoded channels.
  • Stuck on horizontal 18V.
  • Crackling audio.
  • No decoding of encrypted channels. No "please insert card" message.
  • No display.
  • Blue picture.
  • No audio. via SCART. (MSS200 tips)
  • No on screen menu. Irregular characters in varying places on screen, or blank raster. LED flashing to indicate receiver in "MENU" mode.
  • Patterning that swirls around screen with faint white bar moving from right to left.
  • No picture.
  • No signal, blue background (sound OK if blue background ID turned off).
  • Letter P flashing on screen.

With this service information, you may repair PACE MSS200 faster/better when it fails.

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In the repair discussion pinboard for MSS200 there are 3 replies to questions asked about 1 different repair problems.
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Last updated: 16. Oct 2008 05:50:16 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C EURASMOP

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