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it only shows the white sceen and says searching for sateillite signle

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No receivers found. What one?

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searching for satellite

I have one receiver in my house that keeps searching for satellite. I have to reset this receiver quite often. Sometimes it comes back right away, but it has been searching for a signal since yesterday.

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SEARCHING FOR RECEIVER SIGNAL

anybody out there experiencing continual RECEIVER signal loss    error::::: 616 searching for receiver signal    

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771 searching satelite

771 searching satelite on local channels can get the movie channels...not happy it's thanksgiving tomorrow..get this fixed

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searching 771

Recently upgraded to the new hd/dvr black reviever. Everything was fine for the first week or so. Now I am getting 771 searching for signal, but only on espn hd (206), HBO hd (501) and TNT hd (245). What's going on?

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More: SEARCHING FOR SIGNAL

We just moved back to our house after 5 months, naturally, my system is searching for signal. It been a bad winter with a lot of snow, etc.I did the connection inspections, except for the dish on the roof.I reset a hundred times.Any hints will be helpful. I have a tech coming on Tuesday.What I don't

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searching for satellite

My picture freezes, then goes blank, and searching for satellite appears. This last about 15-20 minutes before the picture comes by own, but the picture will not stay on.

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Searching For Signal

I have reset my reciever by pressing the red button and by unplugging for 15 seconds. I continue to get Searching For Signal. It is currently snowing here so the trouble could be weather related although my internet sattelite is functioning.

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searching for signal 771

my reception is gone and it says that it is searching for signal...771....what the heck does this mean?

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Searching for Satelite 771 error

My problem started on June 28,2010. I was getting the searching for satelite 771 error only on 3 satations 229 HGTV 207 ESPN NEWS, and 628 NESN. On 7/1/10 I would be getting receptions momentary then the shows would freeze, and the searching message would appear. Yesterday during the daytime, I was

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Searching for signal

Woke up in the morning and turned on the TV. Now I'm getting a searching for signal error. I unplugged it for several minutes and plugged back in, still searching. I have signal on my other two receivers. I thinking the cable from the dish is bad. Is this my problem?

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Searching for Signal

My received has been searching for signal for at least 1 hour.  I have pushed the reset button, and unplugged and waited, but still no signal.  This is the first problem I have ever had with my system.  Help please

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Searching for signal

My sat has been working fine. I turned it on at 7 this morning and some channels were saying searching for signal 771 and some channels were working fine. Then about an hour later, I tried resetting my dvr receiver and it is stuck on searching for satellite signal at 0% complete. And it is showing 0

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Searching for Signal 771

Hi my box has been searching for a signal for the last 2 hours. I have used the reset button and it still has not found a signal....help!!!!

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searching for satellite

I have two recievers ,one will only pick up channel 345 RFD if the other reciever is tuned to it.if not it says searching for satellite but all the other channels come in okay.  HELP

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searching for satellite

for the past 2 or 3 weeks when I change channels  I get searching for satellite only for a few seconds and than the station appears  and not on all channels, I have tried the red button several times but still doing it?     Any ideas?

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Searching for satellite

Lost electricity to house and now both receivers are saying searching for satellite.i have unplugged both and waited 30 seconds still same message. Removed both coaxial cables same message. Pushed red reset buttons same message. Don’t know what else to try.

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searching for signal

I have 3 tv's in my house with receivers. Two of them are working properly but 1 is searching for signal.  when I ran a system test it showed the LNB output "failed".  Also all of the Satellite transponders are at "0".

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searching for signal

i have three receivers in my house, two are working fine no problem. but one just started acting up not showing local channels now it is not showing anything except searching for signal. it will not even load up after i unplug it. can you tell me if the reciever is bad or the cable or what?

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