I used to have that set the problem you are having is a bad digital buss power line on the power board. A capacitor will needed to be put in line to fix it.
1 Is no. Each card is married to its reciver when programed by Directv.
To have two recivers on one dish you have to have a dual LNB
with two cables for both to work. You can't use a splitter.
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