[mythtv-users] Any way to tell which tuner card might be bad?

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Wed Feb 10 05:11:17 UTC 2010


On 2/9/2010 8:53 PM, James Pifer wrote:
>
> I saw in the archives from a recent thread that someone suggestioned
> checking the heatsinks. Everything on the cards appear ok.

That was me. Don't just look...

Pull the card out and wriggle the heatsink. It should feel pretty attached. If there's
any amount of wiggle, it's probably not 100% attached. That can equate to hot-spots while operating.

And the MPEG chip gets pretty warm.

Anyway -- FWIW,

  -Ben


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