[mythtv-users] Hard Backend Lockups

[Yan Seiner]

Ronald Frazier wrote:
> I had that happening on my new system last year. Turns out I had a bad
> memory slot that was only intermittently generating errors. I ran it
> through a few rounds of memtest86 and got no errors. After a few
> months, a rebuild, and swapping out some hardware I still had the
> problem. Frustrated, I swapped out the motherboard and the problems
> went away. I ran the previous motherboard through a more extensive run
> of memtest86. I think it wasn't until the 10th or 15th pass that it
> picked up the memory errors. From there I was able to narrow it down
> and determine it was one of the memory slots that was bad, and only
> failed memtest86 on about 5% of the passes.
>
>   
Second that.  Run memtest over a weekend when you're not home.  I've had 
mystery crashes that only show up after running memtest for a long, long 
time.

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