I bought a new iMac and ATV about two months ago. Everything worked fine out of the box. However, I no longer show ATV in my iTunes, music no longer streams downstairs to my stereo and ATVs screen is blank. I've tried using the ATV remote and nothing happens. I tried to unplug the ATV for a few minutes hoping to reboot/restart this piece of junk but nothing seems to be working. Any and all help would be appreciated.
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ATV stopped working
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You can run diagnostics of the ATV:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1560
You can force a factory restore of the ATV:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3199
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1560
You can force a factory restore of the ATV:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3199
this might help
I'm a PC user and over the past few days, my AppleTV has been dropping out of itunes for no what seemed to be no apparent reason. I loaded iTunes on different PCs, entered the access code in iTunes and every time, the AppleTV would drop out after about 5 minutes.
I was reading a little about WEP and other security settings and I remember that before i upgraded to a different access point, i was only using MAC address filtering and nothing else. When i installed the new access point, I didn't use MAC filtering and only WEP.
SOLUTION:
Something with the encryption i was using because i turned the encryption off and turned on MAC filtering. I need some type of security even though MAC filtering isn't that great. Anyway, it works like a charm. Apparently WEP or WPA doesn't work well with the latest versions of appleTV and/or iTunes.
I hope this helps.
I'm a PC user and over the past few days, my AppleTV has been dropping out of itunes for no what seemed to be no apparent reason. I loaded iTunes on different PCs, entered the access code in iTunes and every time, the AppleTV would drop out after about 5 minutes.
I was reading a little about WEP and other security settings and I remember that before i upgraded to a different access point, i was only using MAC address filtering and nothing else. When i installed the new access point, I didn't use MAC filtering and only WEP.
SOLUTION:
Something with the encryption i was using because i turned the encryption off and turned on MAC filtering. I need some type of security even though MAC filtering isn't that great. Anyway, it works like a charm. Apparently WEP or WPA doesn't work well with the latest versions of appleTV and/or iTunes.
I hope this helps.
Mine has just been flashing orange and will not do anything. I have tried the reset and nothing. May have to go to Apple store but worried since got it second hand from a friend
