Well, I suffered the Ultra too many transponder memory overload, then later suffered from the similar too many "active" transponder problem. So recently I started over from factory conditions, cleaned out all the sats and transponders, and started scanning in the sats little by little. I had all the sats in memory with token transponders, and had scanned in channels on about half the channels, and all seemed well.
Then yesterday, I was working on another satellite, actually, I created a dummy sat to be used to scan while looking for feeds, without clogging up the actual sat memory, and everything went beserk. Actually, I was looking for an ESPN
HD US Open feed, but never found one.
When I created the new sat, which I just called "C", I tried scanning in channels, and somewhere along the line, I don't remember exactly where in the process, the video went blank. I had to flip the switch off to get the thing back up, and it came back to an existing channel I had been watching. I decided to try to do a scan again, went to Power Scan, and the ONLY satellite listed was "C" !?!?! I went to the Antenna Setup page, and there was only the one "C" satellite listed there too?!?! I still seemed to have existing channels, but no sats or transponders.
Anyway, I hooked up to the computer, and loaded in an old channel setup that I had saved from a couple months ago (unfortunately I didn't save the bare setup I had just worked a week or so to create). I went to scan a sat that I knew had channels, and the Power scan didn't find anything, even though I was watching one of them at the time, and the signal was good with no uncorrected errors. Later I tried again, and it seemed to come back to life, and I was scanning in transponders again, but it sure seems like the poor Ultra is on it's last legs.
I was hoping that perhaps it had volatile memory backed up by a lithium battery, so today I took the top off and looked, but no luck. No battery. I was also hoping that perhaps on of the capacitors had gone bad, and memory was getting scrambled by power supply noise or something, but I didn't see any leaking caps, and for what I paid for the receiver, it isn't worth the effort of replacing all the caps. Anyway, looks like the Ultra isn't going to last much longer.
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