Gate conflict.

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

at the time the first earth gate was in the antarctic, it had a functioning DHD,
until the time it was discovered the SGC was going offworld and stuff, when they dialed back they arrived in the SGC, but why didnt they arrive in antarctic, because the gate with the DHD is the primary one, and if neither gate had a DHD which one would recieve the wormhole if dialed from another location, the closest??

[jonos101]

at the time the first earth gate was in the antarctic, it had a functioning DHD,
until the time it was discovered the SGC was going offworld and stuff, when they dialed back they arrived in the SGC, but why didnt they arrive in antarctic, because the gate with the DHD is the primary one, and if neither gate had a DHD which one would recieve the wormhole if dialed from another location, the closest??

coz the DHD in Anactica was broken

[jnadreth]

Neither-The gate system would shoove u off to Hadante for giving it a hard time

The closest one to the incoming wormhole should pick it up

[wkw427]

Antartic gate didn't have power. If you put batteries in a flashlight, but the batteries are dead, still broken.

They went through the SGC because the gate was blocked with ice, After they were rescued, an iris was put to cover the other gate.

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

coz the DHD in Anactica was broken

your wrong, it wasn't broken, it ran out of power after the SGC found it and had used it several times.

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

Antartic gate didn't have power. If you put batteries in a flashlight, but the batteries are dead, still broken.

They went through the SGC because the gate was blocked with ice, After they were rescued, an iris was put to cover the other gate.

the gate was in an icy cavern, how do you think the gate could activate if it was covered in ice, so if you were right then the episode solitudes shouldnt have been and they wouldnt have found the second gate.

think about it, NO LOGIC!

[DaCk]

It ran out of power later yes. BUT it was broken in Antartica. Carter had to remove something and put it back in to "restart" the dhd, because everytime she tried dialing she would get the stargates version of the blue screen of death.

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

It ran out of power later yes. BUT it was broken in Antartica. Carter had to remove something and put it back in to "restart" the dhd, because everytime she tried dialing she would get the stargates version of the blue screen of death.

yes, BECAUSE she dialed herself and that kind of crashed the system. dont know why, cause that shouldt happen normally.

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

yes, BECAUSE she dialed herself and that kind of crashed the system. dont know why, cause that shouldt happen normally.

she dialed earth but she was on earth, so the dialing program in the DHD kind of froze, the symbols remaining active, she dug down to the control panel and disconnected the power, the reconnected to dail again, it would have worked, but she didnt try any other addresses.

[Jack_Bauer]

It was either a massive oversight from TPTB...

OR

The gate had only just been dislodged from the ice when SG1 was returning from their mission. So because it had only just been able to receive incoming wormholes it would explain why no other SG team had gone through the Antarctic Gate. Convenient yes, but this is Stargate after all.

[thekillman]

wasnt it the secondary gate, with the SGC's gate being the primary?

[Dev Corvin]

While connecting a DHD to a gate does usually make it the primary gate, that's due to the fact that the gate requires a solid and stable flow of energy to actually assert itself; compared to a DHD buried in ice and practically frozen, the SGC's dialling computer would have been considered a much more viable powersource, thus allowing the Giza gate to assert authority.

Don't forget, Sam actually had to dig the damn thing out before she was able to start messing around with the DHD; only AFTER she dug it out and wiggled the cables around did it light up and begin providing power to hte gate.

[thekillman]

so the problem is solved then

[Dr. Daniel Jackson]

While connecting a DHD to a gate does usually make it the primary gate, that's due to the fact that the gate requires a solid and stable flow of energy to actually assert itself; compared to a DHD buried in ice and practically frozen, the SGC's dialling computer would have been considered a much more viable powersource, thus allowing the Giza gate to assert authority.

Don't forget, Sam actually had to dig the damn thing out before she was able to start messing around with the DHD; only AFTER she dug it out and wiggled the cables around did it light up and begin providing power to hte gate.

she jsut dug out to the symbols and then was able to dial it, she started messing around when the DHD program froze,and she had to restart it

[Dev Corvin]

Just watched the episode again because this was bugging me; when she first starts dialling, the gate takes a second or two to flicker into life... NOT usual Stargate behaviour

My guess would be that the extreme cold drained the gate of power and possibly switched off the DHD as well, only re-activating once she attempted to dial. We know that the Stargate network is able to draw power from either side to maintain a wormhole (stated in an episode of Atlantis and several episodes of SG1), but it's quite possible that both gates must have SOME measure of power to actually send/receive the signals required to activate the event horizon etc. If the gate was entirely drained of power, it's quite possible that even an incoming wormhole would fail to connect.

Although, that wouldn't explain why they were able to connect to that gate in the first place, nor why subsequent incoming wormholes weren't diverted there once she reactivated the DHD.

Another possible explanation would be that the extreme cold affected the DHD's ability to provide power to the gate, and with the gate at an already low level of charge, the gate currently receiving the most power (the SGC gate) acted as the dominant gate on Earth. Carter actually explains in a later episode of the show, during the documentary episode, that the DHDs provide a cleaner, more efficient form of energy (causing the gate to draw 10% less power from a DHD than it does from the SGC's dialling computer); the effect of this may have been negated by the cold and the general dilapidation of the Antarctic DHD, thus allowing the SGC's gate to remain dominant.