did my hr20-700 just die?

[Entr04y]

Hi all,

As of about three days ago my hr20-700 can't get a satellite lock... we'd had some winds so at first I assumed the dish got bumped out of alignment. However, when I go to my hr10-250 in the other room I am getting 98% signal strength on the same transponders I am getting 0 on the hr20-700... is this something others have seen happen before?

On a side note... WHY can't the box be USABLE if it doesn't have the guide data. I tried restarting it and now I can't get to the playlist to watch already recorded content while I am waiting for the D*tv people to show up tomorrow.

*edit*
err, i should have said that the box locks up when trying to play content already recorded

Thanks

[Entr04y]

Heh, the tech just showed up (a day early) and he's looking at it now... he did say that it's not compatible to have a hr10-250 on the same dish as an hr20-700... because they use different power frequencies... HUH? He's going to try to switch out the lnb's, but i have the first gen HD dish (AT-9 I think).

Now he's back and the DVR is indeed dead and says they will have to order a new one for me. He's saying that the power thing is what fried the dvr. The thing is the hr10-250 wasn't hooked up until AFTER the hr20 stopped working (I had disconnected it in the bedroom and not gotten around to hooking it back up)

Is this just a case of the early hr20-700 going bad or is there some truth to the tivo / directv dvr incompatibility?

Thanks

[Michael D'Angelo]

The HR10-250 has nothing to do with it at all. A bunch of members on here have HR10-250's hooked up with their HR20's.

[tfederov]

Don't buy that. I have an HR10-250 and three HR20s in use. At one time I had three HR10-250s and one HR20 in use.