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Changing over Sky + Boxes

Looking for some advice please, my dad has a Sky + box in his study that is quite old and is playing up. I have a Sky + box in my garage that I had before going to HD.

How would I go about setting it up for my dad please ?

thanks

xDx
xxxdxxx

With compassision, good manners, kindness and dignity as your ticket you will travel far in life.

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  • paulday
    paulday Posts: 47 Forumite
    All you need to do is swap the box over and then give sky a ring and tell them that you want to pair his viewing card to the new box. They will ask for a few details from the new box, and reactivate the card. Job done.

    Paul
  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    If your dads box is connected to the phoneline,you should be able to pair the card without calling Sky.
    Get the remote & press
    Services
    0
    1
    Select
    then choose 'New Install' from the drop down menu & follow the prompts.
    (bear with me on the above,can't quite remember if it's 100% correct but I think it is...old age setting in...)

    If that doesn't work,do as Paulday suggested,I recently did the same for my aunt when her box went wonky...
  • paulday
    paulday Posts: 47 Forumite
    Its services then 4,0,1, and then select, then the new install option, but have found that this doesnt always work and the phone call has things going straight away.

    Paul
  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    paulday wrote: »
    Its services then 4,0,1, and then select, then the new install option, but have found that this doesnt always work and the phone call has things going straight away.

    Paul

    Told you my brains going...:p....
  • How super it's so easy, many thanks everyone x

    xDx
    xxxdxxx

    With compassision, good manners, kindness and dignity as your ticket you will travel far in life.
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