[mythtv-users] System hangs in X/Mythtv

[Joe V]

Well, I don't know what kind of case you have, but you
could try adding a case fan or two, if you don't have
any in there.  The ones that I like are the Vantec
Stealth fans, they're very quiet (in fact, they're
quiter than the stock heatsink fan that came with my
Pentium 4 CPU (and that's fairly quiet).

The only other thing I would suggest is that if you do
have case fans in there, make sure that they're
pointing the correct way.  And, if you have a heatsink
where you had to put the fan on it yourself, make sure
that it's blowing air away from the CPU.

True story: A friend of mine just build a system, 1GHz
Duron (I think), and it was constantly crashing. 
Nobody knew what was going on, so I took a look at it
- the BIOS temperature sensor said that it was running
at 50+ degrees Celsius.  I put a piece of paper to the
CPU fan and noticed that the paper was getting sucked
into it.  I reversed the fan, and the CPU temperature
dropped by 10 degrees Celsius.

-- Joe

--- "Owen B. Mehegan" <owen at nerdnetworks.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Owen B. Mehegan <owen at nerdnetworks.org>
> 
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