Two big problems - please help.

[Iknowjack]

Hello, I'm having a big problem with my F4 Turbo.

A lot of problems (such as falling asleep, and just not turning the dish) went away after dumping OpenVIX for OpenATX.
The big problems that I have now is:

It will not receive signals from satellites unless they're close to Astra 28.2east.
The satellites are there as I have used a satellite finder and get nice "bleeping" results. But it doesn't even flicker on the receiver.
Any help or advice appreciated.

Also, it will not play a hard drive unless it is formatted with the receivers own format, which is not compatible with a pc.

Any help you can give with these two problems very much appreciated.