PRD800 / PACE [Sat receiver (analogue)]

• Timer loses up to 45 seconds each week.
• Main MENU OSG is missing.
• Faulty on screen graphics.
• Blue screen. intermittently.
• Satellite picture rolls.
• Decoding does not function and white horizontal lines approximately 1cm apart are present across the screen.
• Wavy horizontal lines travelling up and down screen. Worse from RF output when horizontal (17V) polarised channel is selected.
• Picture streaks, varies with contrast level only on RF - scart connection ok.
• Silky lines across screen.
• Speckles on screen and occasional "please wait" messages and then will not decode video-crypt programs.
• Loop-through gain is poor, UHF signal strength is poor making snowy picture.
• RCU does not function or is unstable, transmitter ok.
• No picture with a UHF connection, OK with scart connection.
• Diagonal lines across screen. (PACE - PRD800 information)
• No raster, sound or menus; display OK.
• Pulling captions and poor streaky picture, OK on scart.
• No modulator picture.
• When bright colours are shown on video-crypt encoded channels, sparkles or patterns appear.
• Shuts down and reverts to standby when channels changed.
• Distorted audio.
• No vertical or horizontal switching.
• At switch on horizontal bars are present (Venetian blind effect), disappears when channels are changed.
• Will not decrypt scrambled channels.
• Horizontal lines. Streaks shadowing picture highlights. (PRD800 tips)
• LNB supply will not change polarity.
• No decoder, no messages, blank screen with channel idents rolling.
• Blank raster.
• Intermittently video signals disappear, audio not affected.
• No LNB or other strange functions.
• Dark horizontal lines in peak white areas that move with picture; constant and unmoving on menu; not present on Scart output.
• No picture or sound via UHF output; OK via scart output.
• No picture via TV/VCR scarts of UHF modulator. Picture via baseband scart to external decoder OK.
• PSU ticking.
• Incorrect P mode stored in receiver.
• No picture, just 2 sections of display lit. (service info for PACE -PRD800)
• Tuning drifts.
• Intermittently pace dish positioner shows incorrect satellite position number.
• Black screen, no graphics, sound ok.
• Whistles then goes dead.
• Snowy picture. Otherwise OK.
• TV picture on VCR PLAY using VCR loop through satellite receiver has video overload.
• No picture (intermittently). (PRD800 tips)
• Dead, mains input socket possibly arcing resembling interference then goes completely dead.
• Characters or dots show up at random.
• Appliance remains in standby, no channels displayed, very unstable.
• Blank screen (intermittently).
• Encrypted channels suddenly scrambled.
• No vertical polarisation and or abnormal coloured menu backgrounds. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Waves on the beach effect on pictures viewed through modulator
• Incorrect frequency in the tuning menu.
• No horizontal signals.
• Decoder drops out intermittently.
• No decoder operation.
• 5V rail high.
• Dim picture when RF output is used.
• Picture is missing just a blue screen, can be intermittent. Sound ok.
• Intermittently picture and sound disappear, no RC operation.
• Intermittently lines appear on picture.
• No OSG and microcontroller chip will not reset.
• No operation (intermittently).
• Soft white horizontal; moving lines across picture.
• "Card invalid" in display. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Grainy terrestrial TV pictures.
• Cannot tune into any channels.
• "Card Invalid" message on screen.
• Intermittent horizontal flashing lines when warm.
• Tuning defective. Mauve menu background.
• "Radio" displayed on screen.
• Horizontal lines on picture when cold.
• No colour in menu.
• No decoder messages. Two grey bars at top left corner of scrambled picture.
• Intermittent blue screen. Sound OK. (PRD800 tips)
• Very low contrast on UHF output only.
• Streaky pictures.
• Poor picture.
• No audio.
• Tuning fault.
• Venetial blind interference. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Shadowy black bars going up screen.
• Loss of audio, intermittent when receiver is first plugged in and permanent when unit has warmed up.
• Chopper blows after kit has been fitted.
• Only tunes to certain level.
• TV picture interference on UHF band bottom end channels in fringe reception areas. Could show as wavy diagonal line.
• Intermittent/loss decode/graphics.
• No picture via RF or scart. Changes channels and channel LEDs light up.
• Power fault.
• No response using RC, just blue screen.
• Poor contrast. No decoder messages unless contrast set at 8.
• Menu is not displayed. No channel ID.
• Timer gains up to 45 seconds each week.
• White smearing on blue screen when display figures showing via RF only. Scart OK. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Decoded pictures are streaky.
• Picture flickers. No decoder messages.
• No video output, scart signal ok, faint picture on CH69.
• Intermittent whine.
• No decoder messages. Scrambled picture with two grey bars top left hand corner. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Slow start up. No decoder messages. Picture flickers.
• Severe lines on picture.
• Video signals intermittently disappear, sound OK.
• Very loud whistling sound.
• Flickering picture.
• Does not change polarisation.
• Not decoding. No messages after warm up.
• No signal, no LNB supply.
• No LNB volt.
• No LNB, blank screen.
• Picture breaks up, decoder drops in and out and contrast goes up and down.
• No functions. Top left LED segment flashes rapidly.
• Blue screen, no sound when signal applied.
• Blue screen.
• Black bars on white scree.
• Intermittent RC function.
• No picture after 30 mins, only when cabinet fully assembled.
• No picture from modulator.
• Upside-down F in display.
• TV speaker produces high pitched whine. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Dead.
• Background whistle on sound.
• Whine or high pitched buzzing on background sound which can be heard during quiet scenes. (NOTE: Only PCBs 182-0190203 (Rev B3) or earlier).
• Slight wobble and horizontal streaks on sections of red colours.
• Insufficient picture with patterning and black diagonal lines.
• Fails PAT test.
• Blank or very dull picture.
• Multiple ringing on picture.
• All voltages are slightly too high.
• OSG are lost intermittently, channels display ok.
• Scrambled picture and no decoder message when warm.
• No picture but ok through scart socket.
• Polarization setting in menu not selecting horizontal/vertical, selects skew instead.
• Negative picture.
• Low or no HV. (service info for PACE -PRD800)
• Lace curtain effect on encrypted channels, dull picture with clear channels. Does not decode, no messages. (service info for PACE -PRD800)
• Herringbone pattern, especially on channels above 11. (PACE - PRD800 information)
• When operating via UHF output, there are narrow diagonal lines over the picture.
• Swirling picture.
• Interference and arcing from SK1.
• Reset to factory defaults.
• Sound is distorted especially on peak sound on some channels.
• Low RF signal loopthrough.
• PSU hisses, buzzes.
• Floating diagonal lines across picture.
• Not decoding and no decoder messages.
• RC inoperative.
• Intermittently Card invalid message appears.
• Receiver switches off for a few seconds after channels have been changed rapidly.
• Turning blue background on/off.
• Does not tune in any stations and has Sky One on every channel with vertical polarisation.
• Encrypted channels scramble.
• "888" in display.
• Bright white Video-Crypt decoder message bars with no text. Decoder OK.
• Intermittent RF output.
• After warm-up picture disappears
• No remote response when warm.
• Low gain via modulator.
• Rippling saturated colour on encryted signals.
• No picture, no audio, after a short time.
• To unlock parental lock without PIN.
• When warm video output from tuner is lost.
• LNB voltage permanently high.
• Decoding does not function and no decoder graphics.
• Blown fuse. (PRD800 tip from PACE)
• Bright colours are mottled.
• Shadowed horizontal bars up the screen.
• Failed LNB volts. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Video-crypt decoder stops working. No decoder messages or "Please Wait" flashes intermittently after warm up.
• Screen turns blue when warm, effects some channels only.
• Picture and sound are missing, screen is blue, could be intermittent.
• Faint horizontal lines. OK when Sky card removed.
• No picture after approx 10 mins. Audio OK.
• Poor superimposed OSG. Excessively high contrast level.
• Appliance starts up slowly, occasionally beeps to start with.
• No functions. Two bars lit in LED display.
• Power supply whistles very loudly.
• Horizontal lines across picture.
• "Card invalid" displayed only when card inserted.
• Slight herringbone pattern when used via UHF modulator in mono Panda audio mode (mono 2-9) is selected.
• Encrypted channels cannot be decoded, could be intermittent.
• Blue screen, no sound when signal applied.
• At switch on, poor picture and low luminance.
• Incorrect P mode stored in receiver, 2 or 3 numbers needed for single numbered channel.
• No encrypted channels or on screen messages.
• Power supply failure.
• UHF output stuck, does not tune in. (PRD800 tip from PACE)
• No decoder messages.
• Noisy signals and no on-screen messages during 'pay' channels; menu OK.
• Only noise.
• Stuck in standby. One bar in middle of display lit.
• Blue video mute operating and distorted sound.
• Intermittent reception of horizontally polarised channels with slight patterning.
• No OSD. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Dead or trips.
• Blown power supply.
• Interference on terrestrial TV pictures.
• Wrong PCB component indent.
• Same programme appears on every channel, the receiver would not tune.
• When satellite receiver is in standby and VCR in PLAY the VCR loop-through via scart socket is missing.
• One polarity only, but voltage switches (between 19V and 24V).
• Does not power up.
• No decoder graphics.
• Severe horizontal lines around 1,750-1,800mHz frequency leaving hardly any trace of a picture. (PRD800 PACE repair tip)
• Power supply ticks, LED segment flashing.
• Q100 has failed.
• No display.
• No synchronisation. (PACE - PRD800 information)
• Power supply tripping, maybe intermittent.
• Distorted menu titles when warm.
• Video is missing and raster blue, sound ok.
• Switches to standby (intermittently).
• Tearing or rippling on some Video-Crypt encoded channels.
• No RF Satellite signals.
• Picture has a vertical bar moving across the screen from left to right and decoded channels also have horizontal streaks.
• No picture.
• Decoded pictures break up with horizontal flashing in picture or picture disappears all together. Non decoded pictures OK.
• Hum in audio.
• Channels jump after RC is used.
• No I/R remote operation.
• PSU ticks. Top left segments of LED display flash.
• Video output from UHF modulator comes and goes, reception ok from scart socket.
• Whistling.
• No RF signal.
• Only decodes Sky One.
• Channel numbers, display and menu appear for couple of seconds when selected but tear.