[mythtv-users] System hangs in X/Mythtv

[Owen B. Mehegan]

I know this is not a Mythtv problem, but I'm hoping someone else has
dealt with it. My system:

Biostar M7VIT Pro motherboard
Athlon XP 1600+
128M DDR 2100 RAM (upgrading to 384M on Monday)
Geforce 2 GTS
ATI TV Wonder VE
Software RAID 5 comprised of 3 80G disks running on 2 Promise IDE cards

I'm running the system with the cover off at the moment. I just
installed a slot fan underneat the video card. Everything works fine on
the console. When I run Mythtv and watch live TV, video works fine for a
bit (where "a bit" is any length of time from a few seconds to a minute
or two), and then the system hangs hard and must be reset. Up until the
last reset, this would only happen when Mythtv was running; last time I
got it running, after adding in the slot fan, it died after getting to
the X desktop.

I'm just assuming that video card heat is the source of this problem,
but I don't know what more I can do to reduce that. Does anyone have any
suggestions, or alternative theories? I'm so close!

/Owen

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Owen B. Mehegan <owen at nerdnetworks.org>