I'm sure tech support told you this but unplug your cable box, let it sit for 30 seconds and plug back in. I had to do this every time I turned the TV on. Finally a repairman came and replaced the box.
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Unhappiness and desparation is turning on the BIG flatscreen....
<center>and getting one of those ominous blue Comcast messages:
"ONE MOMENT PLEASE"
This channel should be available shortly.
Ref. Code: S0a00
</center> So you wait a bit, no change. Try changing channels, same thing on EVERY channel! Now I'm getting worried. Playoff game is almost on.
Every small TV in the house is working just fine, but NOT the big screen! Crap.
Resign myself to suffering through watching the game on a itsy bitsy TV.(Sorry Chaz, C-Hawks lost!)
Finally log on to Comcast website and go thru "Chat" with support and went thru all the gyrations of checking connections, etc., etc. No luck. Here's your appointment for a technician to show up and "fix things" so you can use your big screen.
So, instead of being fat and happy, lounging in my chair in front of a "big screen" (like someone I know),
I have a large doorstop on top of a nice cabinet full of audio-visual electronics for a week until Mr. Tech-Know-It-All shows up.
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SH*T
Stuck in a house with an ice storm going on with a large doorstop. (pic this a.m.)
My take: the "big" Motorola control box is toast.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot. - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
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I'm sure tech support told you this but unplug your cable box, let it sit for 30 seconds and plug back in. I had to do this every time I turned the TV on. Finally a repairman came and replaced the box.
That must be a standard tech request!Originally Posted by dickdb
The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot. - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
TOI #01585 VRCC #506 Iron Butt #10256 NRA Life Member
Why couldn't ya swap out a box for now
2012 Triglide Piaggio MP3 500 to get groceries 1991 FLHS as back up
"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it !"
Tiffany, Olive, Daisy, “The Three Musketeers” together again.
No time for it today, went out of town. If the main box is disconnected, others don't work. Xfinity high tech? Plus major PIA to get at plugs/wires behind entertainment center that weighs a ton to move. My bum knee doesn't help. I'll wait till techie arrives and use other TVs.Why couldn't ya swap out a box for now
Otherwise, swapping boxes not a bad idea.
The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot. - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
TOI #01585 VRCC #506 Iron Butt #10256 NRA Life Member
Don't you hate things like this. I remember as a kid sitting for hours watching the test pattern waiting for the show to start.Jim
US Army Retired, Command Sergeant Major
No longer riding, memories, memories
I would get up early in the morning before school and turn on the TV to watch cartoons. Mom would lay out my clothes, and I would eat a bowl of dry (I preferred it that way) cereal, usually Cheerios. If I got up too early there was just audio and video static, which we called the "maggot fights". The static would go away, the test pattern would come on, and a few minutes before the programming started a tone would come on. We knew something was going on - much better than today's blue screen with meaningless codes.Don't you hate things like this. I remember as a kid sitting for hours watching the test pattern waiting for the show to start.
Don - 2004 GL1800 Champion trike, 2018 Can Am Spyder RT Limited
2 wheeler: 2013 Triumph Bonneville T100
FORR Local 11, AMA, MRF, Mid-South MILE Committee
Remember when they closed the programming day with a inspirational speech or prayer from a member of the clergy???
Showing my age.....
The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot. - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
TOI #01585 VRCC #506 Iron Butt #10256 NRA Life Member
DirecTV. In 7 years only out less than a day unless power outage or HEAVY downpour.
2002 GL1800 with CSC trike kit
Thats not your tv with the problem... you cable box is not accessing the ESPN stream.
Ill bet your cable box is bad
OR your signal is low to that box, (or S/N ratio is high... ie bad cables)
did you switch the cable boxes on different tv's
Rake...
Never had it....
Never will...
Ding Ding Ding Ding
For those making odds, it was indeed the Cable Box. The Comcast Kid proclaimed that ours was an antique (had it nearly 20 years!) and gave us a brand new one, about 1/5 the size of the old Motorola box.
All is well in the TV universe again and I can watch the playoff games this weekend on the big screen!
The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot. - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
TOI #01585 VRCC #506 Iron Butt #10256 NRA Life Member
I thought soFor those making odds, it was indeed the Cable Box. The Comcast Kid proclaimed that ours was an antique (had it nearly 20 years!) and gave us a brand new one, about 1/5 the size of the old Motorola box.
All is well in the TV universe again and I can watch the playoff games this weekend on the big screen!
Rake...
Never had it....
Never will...
Technology is so nice when it is working. Jim
US Army Retired, Command Sergeant Major
No longer riding, memories, memories
Don't yea just love technology?/ I guess it's still got to be better than the rabbit ears on top our TV when I was growing up...............
Ronnie
With the tin foil wrapped around the ears .
Don't yea just love technology?/ I guess it's still got to be better than the rabbit ears on top our TV when I was growing up...............
Ronnie
We were rich , had a 200lb magnifying glass for wide screen
2012 Triglide Piaggio MP3 500 to get groceries 1991 FLHS as back up
"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it !"
Tiffany, Olive, Daisy, “The Three Musketeers” together again.
And i bet the TV was a Dumont.........With the tin foil wrapped around the ears .
We were rich , had a 200lb magnifying glass for wide screen....
Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar.....
2019 Tri-Glide.......
Tv remote
......imagine kids today having to get up and walk all the way ACROSS the room to change
channels or adjust the volume........
Back when I was a kid, I was the remote and did all of that.......imagine kids today having to get up and walk all the way ACROSS the room to change
channels or adjust the volume........
Bill
2010 Tri-glide, Red Hot Sunglo
R I P MANDY
Don’t know the make , just remember my dad going to the drug store to check/replace the tubes when it was on the fritz....And i bet the TV was a Dumont.........
2012 Triglide Piaggio MP3 500 to get groceries 1991 FLHS as back up
"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it !"
Tiffany, Olive, Daisy, “The Three Musketeers” together again.
Had a uncle who started TV repair as a side gig, and bought a tube tester. Ours went on the fritz so I borrowed the tester. Before I could return it, he visited our house and I tried giving him the tester back. He adamantly refused. Confused, then his wife explained that people would call him all hours to fix their TV’s, and since I had his tester, he could honestly say he had loaned out his equipment and couldn’t help.Don’t know the make , just remember my dad going to the drug store to check/replace the tubes when it was on the fritz....
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