Sky had box cutting out frequently. Needs to reboot to restart?

My 13month old sky hd box keeps cutting out, so far six times this evening! Some me times it auto reboots other times I have to power off/on to reboot the machine. It had the sam e problem two months ago and the sky technician changed hdmi control to 'off'. Ive checked the hdmi control is set too 'off'. Ill call sky to a technician out again but any suggestions in the mean time would be appreciated. Thanks ps. The box and TV are plugged in to the same power block so I know it's not a power supply issue.

Hi i used to have the same problem and had to keep refreshing the software.To fix it i had to finally refresh the software one last time by unpluging the box for a while then reconnecting and turning the box back on while holding the backup button until the 3 lights turn on in the front panel.As soon as the box turns back on i had to go into the planner and delete all the old programmes i didnt want. it was just over half full and that left me with a quarter used. then goto the deleted tab and delete all the programme back ups,. that tab had filled up the remaining hard drive space. coupled with the auto downloads sky does to add programmes to on demand that have the available option the space had been over used. It all stated after the update to retrieve deleted programmes. Theres no need to format the hard drive and lose everything if you do as above and emptying the deleted tab once a week or so prevents it from happening again.

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