[mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sat Jan 28 17:18:30 UTC 2006


On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Nathan A. Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, William wrote:
>>>
>>> I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount
>>> of time I will have the system reboot.  I have seen very
>>> little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below.  I have
>>> noticed that my cpu usage is at 30%
>>> -- with no recording going on!  So can anyone help a poor soul out?
>>>
>>> Nasa
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems.  
>> Set up and
>> run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating  
>> when
>> running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your
>> motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue.  
>> Mythtv uses
>> more interupts than just about any other program out there so a  
>> motherboard
>> that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My  
>> first board
>> based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new  
>> nvidia
>> based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just  
>> different
>> mb.
>>
>>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> I should know better...
>
> I took the cover off and it's ran stable for the last hour and a  
> half...
> (didn't last that long before).
>

I just noticed that is was 38 years ago this week when I started my  
first "Computer Programming" class. They were having trouble with the  
machine (IBM 1620) and had to remove some cover plates to get better  
cooling.

I guess some things never change.


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