[mythtv-users] Stability problems when watching live tv

Pierre-Olivier Bouchard petecool at vl.videotron.ca
Mon Feb 17 20:38:51 UTC 2003


> Here is a rundown of my current hardware:
> ECS K7S5A motherboard
> AMD XP 2100+
> Sound Blaster 16 PCI
> Voodoo Banshee AGP
> 60G WD hard drive

> I even tried updating my kernel to 2.4.20 with the lastest bttv 
> drivers, to no avail.  I LOVE MythTV when my hardware lets it run.

I'd check the X drivers for the video card... try some other card for a while if you can, it might help.

Check system temperatures, the XP2100+ is quite a hot chip, if it gets too hot the mobo might be shutting down itself to protect the CPU.

Does it crash in regular usage? Does it crash if you run Seti at Home (or similar, CPU-eating distributed program)

That's what I'd start with.


Pete


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