Happened to me also. Although it appears it was problems with the uplinks from the games or elsewhere before it hit the Directv Uplinks and not a reciever lockup.
I left the receiver alone and noticed 4-5 minutes into the first outage that transponders were being switched as got two-three different test patterns as "somebody" was trying to find one that worked....
I left the receiver alone and noticed 4-5 minutes into the first outage that transponders were being switched as got two-three different test patterns as "somebody" was trying to find one that worked....