[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Brian Wood]

Robert Bradbury wrote:

> 
> Q: Are we working with and IDE drive and do we know whether it is using
> DMA xfers?  (Is this a BIOS setting?)

Also remember you need an 80-conductor cable for the faster modes to
work properly.

> 
> I did look at the UltimateBootCD listing and it does look like it has
> some CPU benchmarks that could be used to test the CPU integrity and
> possible overheating (haven't tried using them however -- YMMV).

It's a pretty handy disk. There is a Windows version that checks MS
systems for common problems (like Sony rootkits), but that wouldn't be
of much interest to folks here.

BEWW