VU Duo Shutdown problem

[ronaldbiggs]

Hi I have been experiencing an issue with my Duo over the past 7 days. The receiver will randomly show a black screen and the front panel will just show "VU duo", I then have to reboot the receiver to make it work again.

After a few days of rebooting every 2 hours I re flashed with the latest Zeus 0.16 VIX image on Sunday morning and also installed the "On Demand" plugin and all appeared good again, however last night at 10:00 it happened again, this time is shuts off very 10 minutes.

I have since re flashed again this morning with the same image and await the results tonight when I get home. I have no plugins installed as yet as I wanted to see if there was still a problem when just the base image was loaded

Any ideas on possible causes

Thanks for any advice.

[dfdream]

It could be this problem.
The capacitor issue shows up in lots of ways before the red light issue appears...

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?26743-Dead-Vu-Duo-repair-guide&highlight=dfdream

[ronaldbiggs]

It could be this problem.
The capacitor issue shows up in lots of ways before the red light issue appears...

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?26743-Dead-Vu-Duo-repair-guide&highlight=dfdream

Thanks for the reply, I will take a look at the guide and grab one from Maplins, just spoken to the other half and she says its not shutdown since this morning, I assume its to do with temperatures creating dry joints, and the caps have a working lifespan ?