[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Andrew Burgess]

>Some aren't reading Eric's posts closely.

>Athlon MBO BIOS I doubt it has the 512MB/2GB disk drive boot issues.  He can
>read in the kernel and get it to the decompress step so it sounds like the
>I/O to the hard drive works (unless he's damaged the kernel on the hard
>drive) [will the drive boot in a different machine?].  The fact that a
>different disk/OS doesn't boot but the memory test runs ok combined with the
>fact that he says he was having heat problems makes me worry that the CPU
>may be overheating under high CPU load.

Booting from the IDE overheats it but booting from the knoppix cd doesn't?