[mythtv-users] Pink screen of death

[Andy Burns]

On 15/02/2008 11:08, Chuck Peters wrote:

> On one particular machine mythfrontend sometimes dies with this "Pink
> screen of Death".  The monitor goes pink, sometimes I will hear a few
> snippets of sound, sometimes as much as a minute later, and the
> machine is pretty much frozen.  I can ping the machine at that point
> but can't ssh in and all SysRq keys will do is reboot it.  Any
> suggestions for dealing with this?

check for failed fans
re-seat memory, PCI cards in slots
check for "bulging" capacitors on the motherboard
monitor CPU temperatures, and voltages if possible
leave memtest86+ running overnight
try with another PSU is possible