Front power indicator blinks, clicking/high pitch sound

Have you paid your bill lately? Most cable companies will
interrupt your cable box if you are 2 months past due.


If and when your cable tv goes completely out, most likely it
is an outage and will clear up spontaneously on it's own. To
generate an outage and have the operators tech's come out to
investigate, report all outages to your cable operators
immediately. They appreciate the report.


Most cable TV problems, and I say 80%, can be solved by the
subscriber by checking the obvious like coax lines, for no picture
on screen and have a box is the TV set itself set to channel 03?
Have you installed splitters/moved equipment? Have you a High Def
TV and box ?? Make certain that you have the television set to
the correct INPUT by using your TELEVISION maker's remote to change
from AV1..AV2..VIDEO 1 etc through the settings until you get a
cable picture on screen. If your on screen displays don't show on
your TV. you either have the TV set on the "wrong" input or that
your cable box is not even powered on. Like I said, check the
obvious first.



Motorola boxes that read 888 are dead and need to be replaced.
Do not waste your time to call the cable company, just swap it out
for a new one!

Warnings

By law co axial cable going in to your house should be
grounded. If your cable wire gets hot to the touch or if it sparks,
call the fire dept and your cable operator. Ungrounded or
improperly grounded coax is EXTREMELY rare. Cable coax in itself is
harmless.


Do not place cable boxes in an unvented area or let the vented
slots fill up with dirt and lint. Don't place the box directly on
top of other electrical equipment including your TV. It needs a
good air supply and will break if you mistreat it.