[mythtv-users] Persistant Hanging

[ille at ludd.ltu.se]

Quoting David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com>:

> On 8/10/06, M@ <msheppard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. HANGING - after about 8 hrs the system hangs - it displays the menu or
> > whatever was being watchign in frozen state and does not respond to any
> > keystrokes.
>
> This sounds like either a hardware or kernel problem. Are you sure the
> hardware is stable? Try running mem test for a few hours and if that's
> OK, download the Mersenne prime program and run it in torture mode for
> a few hours.
>
> > 2. TIME DRIFT - it always seems to drift off about 1300 seconds - so
> > everytime I go to watch TV or a DVD I run the "ntpdate (server)" command
> and
> > it synchs and is fine for a few hours.
>
> This also points to a kernel or hardware problem. Are you using the
> latest Knoppmyth version?
>
> -Dave
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2. I had a time drift problem with a computer with a Nforce 2 chipset. Disabling
apic and nioapic solved my problem, as this link suggests:

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Nforce2TimeDrift

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