2010-05-11, 10:48
Terracotta Wrote:I'm glad I found this thread as I recently purchased an Asrock Ion 330 HT and it also "Magically" boots it self up when the TV (Samsung LCD) is on.
I did a bit of googling and found many complaints about LCD and Plasma TV interferring with IR on devices such as set top boxes. It seems these TV's emit IR in wideband frequencies of which includes the IR range. It can be worse if the TV's energy saving mode is set high.
Some people have had success with placing cut out pieces of exposed camera film or floppy disk over the IR reciever or placing their device behind smoked glass in a cabinet. Seems this can block the weaker spurious signals but still let the stronger signal from the remote thru'. I might try covering my IR reciever first.
I have also emailed Asrock about getting a new IR reciever just in case.
Thanks to all before me who have done the hard "yakka" (Aussie for work) in figuring this problem out.
A new IR will cure your problem so don't go messing around trying different techniques to stop it as I tried every trick in the book wasted a whole lot of time and energy doing exactly that myself
It will be your screen causing it but only because you have a faulty IR, Asrock shifted a lot of these boxes and if it was inherent to them all you would have seen hundreds of complaints everywhere not just a handful on here
I didn't think it would solve mine but this was one instance I was happy to be proved wrong