[mythtv-users] Please help! My mythbackend started to crash sporadically

[Coin_Graham at genpt.com]

Replacing parts with "known-good" parts until the problem stops.  That's
computer hardware/automobile troubleshooting in a nutshell.

Coin Graham

mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org wrote on 07/02/2008 10:44:13 AM:

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> Re: [mythtv-users] Please help! My mythbackend started to crash
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> Alen Edwards
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> Andrew Junev, Discussion about mythtv
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> Andrew Junev wrote:
> Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 8:10:28 AM, you wrote:
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> Is there some
> other way to make sure it's a hardware issue (if it is)?
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> Remove any unrequired hardware.  Drop all but one capture card, use
> just one stick of RAM, replace with a spare PSU if you have one and
> stuff like that.  Only do one change at once of course.
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> That is how I would go about it, but I am not an expert :)
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> I would say this could be a way if there are no other options.
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> But... Isn't there some more intelligent way of tracking a problem? :)
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> P.S. And I'm still not sure it's a hardware issue.
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> This is how the computer guy I use does it and he is very good.  If
> you have bad hardware, you need to remove it.  I don't think there
> is a better way.
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