Green screen

[infoman70]

Hi,

I have a vip 211 hd receiver for about 8 years and for the last 2 weeks a have this daily problem: a green screen appears for a few minutes and this message appears "Acquiring signal" and second message appears: "Downloading program guide" the whole process take about 10 minutres before regular programming is back.

 

[infoman70]

Could it be the HDMI cable?

 

[Scherrman]

If it's acquiring signal and downloading program guide I doubt it's the HDMI cable. If you have unplugged the receiver and plugged it back in but still have this problem I would say the receiver is going bad. Get it replaced or upgrade to something new.

 

[infoman70]

When I unplugged and plugged back it after 10 seconds the problem remain.

 

[dare2be]

Do you have an EXT Hard Drive attached to it for DVR purposes? Maybe the hard drive is failing and is causing the receiver to act up.

 

[GaryPen]

I had a number of vip211's go bad over the years at my job. I recently decided to ditch them altogether for 211k's.

 

[infoman70]

The vip 211 is a basic receiver so no hard drive and thanks for the tip GaryPen.

 

[levibluewa]

I had a similar problem with a vip211. It was replaced with another vip211 which was also bad ...the 3rd one is fine!

 

[gjh3260]

Have two 211's both with external hard drives and have had no problems so far

 

[infoman70]

My receiver VIP 211 of the basic and don 't have a hard drive.

 

[infoman70]

I have VIP 211 but basic ,no hard drive

 

[dare2be]

I missed the "8 years" part, which would have ruled out the 211k, and many times when people just reference "211" they could be talking about the 211k. That's why I asked IF there was a HDD attached. My bad.

 

[levibluewa]

I had 2 vip211s when they first came out...was it 2006? One, connected to an external hard drive, is still good. I replaced the 2nd one with a vip722. The one that developed the green screen, lost signal, rebooting issue, gave out last year.

 

[infoman70]

This morning my wife was cleaning up my home tethatre system and she accidentally touch a cable which was the HDMI of my receiver, and since then no more green screen, Is it going to happened again no one can tell.

 

[infoman70]

Hi,

IT's all over, finito, fini, my problem is like a boomerank it's keep coming back and this occurr last night, I'm buying a new one, thank for all your comments and advises.

 

[infoman70]

The VIP 211 hd is no longer available and replace by VIP211k HD.